What makes us human? Greek and Roman thinkers were preoccupied with this question. And some of their observations of animals foreshadowed recent findings in the behavioural sciences.
The Theatre of War video still, Stanislava Pinchuk, image courtesy of the artist.
Through a nuanced exploration of place, time, and memory, this new video work invites audiences to reflect on landscape and its relationship to the echoes of conflict.
An ancient Greek relief depicting a baby with its mother and grandmother.
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Greek epics remind audiences that leaders need to be able to plan for the future based on what has happened in the past. They need to understand cause and effect.
A classics professor is haunted by the co-optation of his discipline by the so-called “alt-right,” toxic masculinity and other self-styled “defenders of Western civilization.”
The Greeks defend their ships from the Trojans in Alfred Churchill’s Story of the Iliad, 1911.
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A central idea in the Iliad - a poetic work focused on the war for Troy - is the inevitability of death. The poem held a special place in antiquity, and has resonated in the millennia since.
Broken hearts: Helen and Menelaus on a vase, Louvre.
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