Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Will Finally Break One of the Director's Most Worrying Trends

This is a common trope, but Nolan can finally move past it in one of the oldest stories put to paper. In adapting The Odyssey ...

'A subject which has brought me endless pleasure: the noble art of poetry'

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure ...
Greek Reporter

Was Helen Really to Blame for the Trojan War – or Just a Scapegoat?

The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearly poses difficult questions—and has done so ever since the age of ...
BroadwayWorld

Esa-Pekka Salonen to Lead Scriabin's PROMETHEUS, POEM OF FIRE with LA Phil

The LA Phil today confirmed program details for the first program of its 2025/26 Body and Sound festival—Prometheus with ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Pompeii’s Graffiti Captures Every Joke, Boast and Argument of an Ancient Roman City Frozen in Time

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...
Counterfire

Counterfire’s books of the year: part 2

Counterfire writers recommend their favourites from this year with a mixture of the new, the classic, fiction and analysis ...
Reuters

Brazilian physician hails love of paleontology that led to major ancient reptile discovery

PARAISO DO SUL, Brazil, Nov 27 (Reuters) - When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could barely imagine his discovery ...