By the British Museum (Greece and Rome) / 08.08.2015 Every fourth year between 776 B.C.E. and 395 C.E., the Olympic Games, held in honor of the god Zeus, the supreme god of Greek mythology, attracted people from across Greece. Crowds watched sports such as running, discus-throwing and the long-jump. Olympia The sporting events at Olympia[…]
Pyramid of Khafre (Photo: Dr. Amy Calvert) By Dr. Amy Calvert / 08.08.2015 Egyptologist Founder, The Art of Counting The Great Pyramids of Giza One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world The last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the great pyramids of Giza are perhaps the most famous and discussed[…]
The Pantheon Today (Photo by author) From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Alec Harrison) / 12.14.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington Introduction The Pantheon is one of Rome’s most iconic and best preserved ancient structures. With massive single stone columns holding up the portico at the entrance, the immense open interior[…]
A section of the Roman city-wall of Empuries, Spain. 1st century BCE. The base of the wall was made using calcareous rock while the upper portion is of Roman concrete (opus caementicium). / Photo by Mark Cartwright, Creative Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Nigel Lyons) / 09.16.2013 Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington Introduction[…]
Detail from The Red Balloon Paul Klee, 1922. Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Wikimedia By (left-to-right) Dr. Julia Christensen, Dr. Guido Giglioni, and Dr. Manos Tsakiris / 12.05.2017 Christensen: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology, Newton International Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, City University, London Giglioni: Cassamarca Lecturer in Neo-Latin Culture and Intellectual History (1400-1700),[…]
Image by Thebiologyprimer, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. James Fieser / 04.01.2016 Professor of Philosophy University of Tennessee at Martin Introduction In ancient Greece, a group of traveling teachers called Sophists had the reputation of being able to argue for any point, no matter how absurd. One Sophist offered this argument: (1) Fido is Joe’s dog. (2) Fido[…]