A useful map for understanding the geography of the ancient Peloponnese : In Argolis, Troezen was founded by Pittheus , a son of...

Italy, it seems, didn't have a lock on access to the Underworld with Cumae . Phyrgians had Ploutonion: A “gate to hell” has emerged f...

Here's a nice atlas full of illustrations of the Iliad and Odyssey, via Public Domain Review .

From a review of  Claire Holleran's  Shopping in Ancient Rome: Take the shops and bars you see lining the streets in all the best-pres...

A new book by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Jews and Words , treats the deep relation of Jews to books and the act of reading:   A...

The Ringling Museum is set to open an exhibit of Paolo Veronese's work . Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) was one of the giants of Venetia...

Mark Kingwell, a teacher in Toronto, on returning to a humanistic basis for education: We philosophers don’t value Plato because he has...

A friend posted these links:. The first is a catalog of the inscriptions that Montaigne placed on the beams of his famous library. The...

As we've often alluded to the complex relationship of the worldview of the Greeks to that of the Hebrews -- here's a painting found...

For an informed discussion of the relation of Romanticism to religion -- a kind of anticipation of the "death of God" proclaimed...

Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history’s most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of...

Yoram Hazony What precisely is the content of the natural law ethics that emerges from the History of Israel? How is this ethics related to...