Hera, Athena and Iris in the Trojan War (Iris, at the Behest of Zeus, Warns Athena and...
Literature
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Tang and Shakespeare’s dramas are being blended together in a series of adaptions. Performance Infinity, Author provided Shakespeare was not the only famous...
The painting depicts the end of the 1381 peasant’s revolt, mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The image...
Helen McCrory as Medea. Richard Hubert Smith/National Theatre By Dr. Laura Swift / 07.23.2014 Lecturer in Classical Studies The Open...
Gilgamesh explores what it means to be human, and questions the meaning of life and love. Wikimedia Commons...
Night (1736), the fourth painting from William Hogarth’s Four Times of the Day series — Wikimedia Commons The introduction of street...
Depiction of Lucian for the title page of Works of Lucian (1781) – Internet Archive With his Vera Historia, the 2nd...
Virtual reality model of the west wall of the guild chapel, Stratford on Avon. © University of York, Author...
Macbeth: I’m not all bad. Honest. Studio Canal publicity Shakespeare cast the Scottish king as the ultimate villain, but you shouldn’t believe...
The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (an illustration to Milton’s Paradise Lost) by William Blake (1808). Courtesy MFA...
Frontispiece image showing man haunted by melancholy, from The Anatomy of Melancholy By Harkiran Dhindsa / 03.30.2016 The...
A dramatic tale of love, betrayal, and vengeance, Medea is continually reinvented for new audiences. By Dr. Mary...
By Dr. Richard Aspin / 08.08.2016 Head of Research Wellcome Library Locally harvested wild herbs were the foundation of...
Embroidered book cover for Henshaw’s Horae Successivae (1632), white satin with a floral design edged in gold cord, featured...
By Patrick Outhwaite / 04.20.2016 Like modern-day students, medieval people used diagrams and images to reinforce learning and...
Detail from Thomas Patch’s etching Laurence Sterne, alias Tristram Shandy: “And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door”(1769)...
A review of David Shyovitz’s Affiliate disclosure: Amazon links on this site are paid links. As an Amazon Associate...
The significance of performance in actualization, transmission, and composition. Audience and occasion. Implications for the study of...
D’Israeli as he appears in the frontispiece to Vol.I of the 1880 Armstrong and Son edition of Curiosities...
The 1695 frontispiece to the manuscript pages which, in 1697, were to become the first edition of...
A family visiting the Getty Villa explores ancient art, history, and mythology through frescoes from the ancient...
The last two centuries have seen a titanic struggle between secular and ecclesiastical powers for control of...
Woodcut in Divina proportione, 1509, Luca Pacioli. The Getty Research Institute, 84-B9582. See full digitized book A look at...
Photo by Flickr user Abhi Sharma, Creative Commons By Dr. Ernst Fischer / 12.03.2010 Department of Book...
Immigrant expertise, widespread literacy, commercial power, and limited central control transformed the Dutch Republic into seventeenth-century Europe’s...
Mugshot of Emma Goldman taken in Chicago, on 10 September, 1901 after she was arrested on suspicion...
The wife and daughters of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine By Dr. Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD / 02.12.2018 Chancellor’s Professor...
Sandra Marquez as Clytemnestra and Stephanie Andrea Barron as Iphigenia in the Court Theater production of Euripides’s Iphigenia...
Johannes de Fontana, Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (1420), BSB Cod.icon. 242, f. 59v Bennett Gilbert peruses the sketchbook of 15th-century...
Domenico di Michelino, Dante holding the Divine Comedy, 1465 (Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence) By Matthew Collins /...