Maze or Labyrinth?
Around 1350 BCE, fire destroyed the Palace of Knossoss—also known as the Palace of Minos, the same man whose name has been immortalized in the Minoan civilization. Knossos, an ancient site on Crete, is the foremost Minoan settlement, having been occupied as early as the Neolithic Period. The fire may have destroyed the palace, but it baked the unfired clay of the palace well enough for them to survive three and a half millennia underground. One of these tablets, catalogued as
Religare, Relegere
What did religion originally mean? From Cicero to Lactantius, a centuries-long philological dispute over one Latin word reshaped Western understandings of religion.
Rethinking Heroism: Resilience and Integrity in Sophocles’ Ajax
Reflecting on the differences between ancient and modern definitions of heroism.
From Resistance to Imperium
The story of Daphne depicts metamorphosis as the process by which living bodies are converted into everlasting symbols of culture, as the laurel that symbolizes Roman imperium, or power, arises from a moment of desperate resistance.
Vox Humana
What if modern technology were given to the ancients?