Janus

06/23/2017

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Silver_Tetradrachm_of_Tenedos_(Mysia,_Islands_off_Troas),_a_Wonderful_Janiform_Head_of_Zeus_and_Hera.jpg

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...

12/15/2015

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

Data visualizers found a route from every point in Europe.

12/11/2015

https://www.facebook.com/groups/18647497619/permalink/10153377956577620/

DNA tests on their Italian descendants show the 'tuscii' came from Turkey.

06/03/2015

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

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,...

03/18/2015

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

Like Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan, Sappho wrote her music as well as her lyrics, and performed her songs in public.

02/19/2015

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

Apotheon is the game John Keats might have made if he was a game designer.

02/19/2015

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

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

08/15/2014

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

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...

10/18/2013

"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

Anne Carson's take on a story first told 3,000 years ago is astonishing, writes Sarah Crown

10/17/2013

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.

10/17/2013

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

06/25/2013

“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.

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.