The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours is based on a course that Professor Gregory Nagy has been teaching at Harvard University since the late 1970s. The book discusses selected readings of texts, all translated from the original Greek into English. This series of galleries attempts to illustrate each Hour with visual art. This fifth gallery covers Hours 17–20. Read more
House of Names chronicles disturbed people performing disturbing acts. The novel is based on the story of Orestes as dramatized by three playwrights of ancient Greece: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. But acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín radically revised the story and its structure, inventing new characters and made the attributes of existing ones more complex than their original versions. However, one thing that remains true to the original is the House… Read more
In this Gallery we are going to the theater. My featured picture is one of Aphrodite, because she is at the root of the war of Troy and we see her often in Greek tragedies. Love is often present in dramas and the cause of many deaths. "Powerful among mortals am I and not without reputation, I am called the goddess Kypris even in heaven. And those who dwell within… Read more
