Janus

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File:Greek Silver Tetradrachm of Tenedos (Mysia, Islands off Troas), a Wonderful Janiform Head of Zeus and Hera.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Mysia Islands off Troas, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.27 g 12). Janiform head composed of a laureate and bearded head of Zeus to left and a diademed head of Hera to right. Rev. TENEDIWN Double axe; below left, monogram of PA and bunch of grapes; below right, caps of the Dioscour...

http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/12/this-map-shows-that-all-roads-basically-do-lead-to-rome/420093/?utm_source=SFFB

This Map Shows That All Roads Basically Do Lead to Rome Data visualizers found a route from every point in Europe.

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The enigma of Italy's ancient Etruscans is finally unravelled DNA tests on their Italian descendants show the 'tuscii' came from Turkey.

Decorated American poet and translator A.E. Stallings is standing for election as Oxford Professor of Poetry. You can read Mary Beard's endorsement of her candidacy here: http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2015/05/professor-of-poetry.html #.VV9DqkAN0ro.twitter

A Don’s Life: Professor of Poetry I am an onlooker only in the election for Oxford's Professor of Poetry, having no Oxford degree -- which is the requirement for voting. But it's fun to look at the field, which is a nicely varied and distinguished one,...

Stephan Daitz recites Sappho; Daniel Mendelsohn explains. http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/hearing-sappho?mbid=social_facebook

What Sappho’s Poetry Sounded Like to the Ancient Greeks - The New Yorker Like Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan, Sappho wrote her music as well as her lyrics, and performed her songs in public.

Where, oh, where is the ios version of this?

Stunning Video Game Is Like An Ancient Greek Urn Come To Life Apotheon is the game John Keats might have made if he was a game designer.

Free performance of Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad at the Poetry Foundation this weekend!

The Penelopiad : Foundation Events : The Poetry Foundation Learn about Poetry Foundation events and awards and programs including Poetry Out Loud, the Writer's Almanac, and the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.

http://hyperallergic.com/143180/ancient-statues-pose-for-selfies/. A glimpse of what the "selfie" would have looked like in antiquity,

Ancient Statues Pose for Selfies It’s one thing to take a with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make...

"The best stories don't have beginnings or endings, not really, but they do have great tellers. Carson is, simply, one of the very best."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/16/red-doc-anne-carson-review

Red Doc> by Anne Carson – review Anne Carson's take on a story first told 3,000 years ago is astonishing, writes Sarah Crown

A full moon over the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the southwest slope of the Acropolis.

A play at the Herodeon theatre under the moon of Athens during the Athens Summer Festival.

Web Comix of The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus illustrated by Glynnis Fawkes, translated by Gregory Nagy.

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“If I do not come to feel any of the love which Pericles feels for his city, how can I understand the Funeral Oration? If I cannot fathom anything of the power of the drive derived from thinking that he has a special mission, what can I understand of Socrates? ... How can one grasp anything about the problem of the Galatian community without sensing in one’s bones the problem of worrying about God’s acceptance?"

How, indeed.

The Humanist Vocation A new report assessing the state of the humanities reinforces the sense that people no longer feel the intrinsic value of reading important books of the ages.