The Greek language thrived under Roman rule as Latin remained limited; cultural pride and education preserved Eastern ...

Even though his works have been lost in time, Lasus is remembered as an innovator and a revolutionary artistic figure. He is believed to be one of the main personalities who transformed the dithyramb, ...

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Luís Vaz de Camões is the most important writer of the Portuguese Renaissance, having written Portuguese History in a way ...

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At Agios Athanasios, a rugged site in northern Ithaca known since the 19th century as the “School of Homer,” a team led by ...

Kamila Shamsie’s novels blur history and present, offering intimate stories that reveal how the past continues to shape ...

The towering Greek philosopher and poet Homer described olive oil as “liquid gold” and the Greek tragedian extraordinaire Sophocles called olives “our sweet silvered wet nurse”. Olive oil is the oil ...

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Portland resident Reid Byers combines the dream world with reality, creating imagined volumes of lost, unfinished and fictive ...

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I have taught on a university campus for close to two decades, but only recently have I started to give some consideration to ...