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58The Collyer Brother's Sad Demise
Everyone knows what a pack rat is, not the little furry kind, but the person who keeps or collects everything, whether it’s useful or not. In the more extreme form they are known as hoarders. Probably the most famous hoarders of all time were the...
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75History of the 'Road Trip Narrative' and Famous Road Trip Movies
A short history and review of the 'road trip' concept in narratives and films. A breif review of the 'road trip' stories as they were in Homer and Virgil's time, and as they are used in the films of our day.
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61Poets Inspired By Greece
There are many places in Greece that inspired poets, Zante being one of them. Also known as Zakynthos, it is also known as the Flower of the East because it was home to so many poets, writers and artists. Dionysios Solomos, Ugo Foscolo and Andreas...
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75A Kit of Pigeons--on eBay
The fact that something is old doesn't mean it lacks value. On the contrary, that which is vintage or antiquarian may very well present itself as a gift--a nostalgic reminder, a seasoned perspective--to contemporary people and times. Utilizing beautiful prints of pigeons taken from paintings of life by the gifted National Geographic staff artist, Hashime Maruyama, the writer makes a case for the preservation of ephemera.
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74Role of gods in the Iliad
Iliad is a term often attributed to Homer and in many instances called the song of Ilium as a poetic reference. The Iliad having been quite pronounced in the field of epic poetry gives an account of some of the activities, events, wars and battles...
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54Homer For Moonfroth, a Poem
Homer existimato et olea, Fulgeo Gladius interfecio et olea,et dolores,expertis, importo,ignoseo, in ultus et olea,lapsus,lateo iniurea, vox planta quercus. Homer judged the olive tree, And saw that last flashing blade kill, the...
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65"Never on Sunday"
In the opening scene of the classic 1960 film “Never on Sunday,” a beautiful, not-young woman in a low-cut top, Ilia, trots toward the Mediterranean through a Piraeus shipyard. A handful of workers, grinning, look down from their half-built...
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63Zuni pins
Although the original people of North America, known as Native Americans, have been there for thousands of years, some of their art and culture are actually relatively new.
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78Greek Heroes: Achilles, Heracles, Theseus and Odysseus
The heroes of Greek myth are more than human, yet less than gods. However, using their supernatural powers for protection and war, they are and were praised as religious symbols, giving them a demigod-like status. Many of the prominent Greek heroes such as Achilles and Odysseus were involved in the famous Trojan War, in which the Achaeans (Greeks) waged war on the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta...
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65Mythological Creatures: Chimera
he Chimera is perhaps one of the strangest and most monstrous creatures of Greek mythology. In Homer's Iliad the Chimera was described as having the body of a lioness (sometimes with multiple heads), the tail of a snake and a goat's head protruding from its back. Parented by Echidna and Typhon, the Chimera was sister to many creatures including Ladon, Cerberus, the Lernaean Hydra and the Nemean Lion...
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