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After 2,100 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Head of an Ancient Greek Statue
Popular Mechanics· 4 days agoAn excavation within Laodicea uncovered a 2,100-year-old statue head of the goddess Hygieia. Revered...
How to Get off the Tourist Trail in Greece
AFAR· 2 days agoYou won’t enjoy sweating your way between ancient sites in the city or jostling for elbow room to capture a photo of Santorini’s famed sunsets. This...
The best Mediterranean cruises for world wonders and ancient sites
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe stunning region around the Mediterranean and the myriad places that line its shores offer a...
5 Essential Comedy Plays You Should Know
Backstage.com· 1 day agoThe raucous stage comedy—which began in ancient Greek theater and was later adopted into the boulevard comedies of late 1800s France—once ...
Livelier Than the Living | Catherine Nicholson
New York Review of Books· 3 days agoThe American scholar Thomas Greene in The Light in Troy, his 1982 study of humanism’s intimate relation to and sense of estrangement from the ancient...
Garry Wills at 90: The influential historian has become his own iconoclast
Chicago Tribune· 3 days agoThe Pulitzer winner who has advised presidents is still writing. His influential books include...
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Booker prize — a chaotic love at the end of times -...
BusinessWorld· 4 days agoGERMAN writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker prize...
The case for crying
The Michigan Daily· 4 days agoBack then, I was rational and sensible about my tears, and they came when I was experiencing great injustices; they came at moments of true despair,...
F. Willis Johnson: The Olympics encourage democratic reflection
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 5 days agoThe Olympics, those weeks-long extravaganzas of athletic competition that happen every four years,...
12 Overrated European Tourist Traps to Avoid This Summer
MediaFeed via AOL· 4 days agoInstead, visit the nearby Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. These lesser-known sites still offer an...
