Daniel Mendelsohn, a humanities professor at Bard College, gave a lecture Monday about his experience translating Homer’s ...
In Ancient Greek, the word demon (δαίμων), also spelled daemon, had several meanings, the main one being "he who dispenses ...
In this Ahram Online interview, Persa Koumoutsi, a prominent Greek–Egyptian writer and literary translator, discusses her ...
Legendary fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg returned to her mother’s birthplace, Thessaloniki, where she was honored ...
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In this Ahram Online interview, Persa Koumoutsi, a prominent Greek–Egyptian writer and literary translator, discusses her writing journey and passion for Egyptian literature.
The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...
Saint Isaac of Nineveh withdrew into solitude, not out of contempt for the world, but to rediscover its divine beauty through prayer. His emphasis on silence and stillness as pathways to understanding ...
The opening word of the Torah, בְּרֵאשִׁית, “in the beginning”, already encoded all of what was to come, the potential of ...
A new introduction to the great philosopher’s work foregrounds its revolutionary nature and far-reaching impact.
"If you feel too much, you lose your ability to be compassionate," Dlugos said. "Compassion has to be blended with wisdom and ...
Jesus called the thing that was not manifest. Lazarus was not asleep. He was dead. But Jesus called him “asleep.” Jesus would ...