On the eve of his conception sometime in 495 BC, Pericles’ mother Agariste dreamed of giving birth to a lion. It was then, months later, Pericles was born. Pericles (495 BC – 429 BC) was a legend ...
In 2009, two of us (Charles Bailyn and Deborah Davis) visited Singapore with a Yale delegation to join a conversation about creating a liberal arts […] ...
The history of Athens. The Acropolis stands as a marvelous natural fortress Credit: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikipedia Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been ...
How was William Shakespeare’s work influenced by ancient Greece? Credit: ell brown. CC BY 2.0/flickr It was once believed that Shakespeare was intimately familiar with ancient Greek tragedies and ...