The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out-of-the-world revolutions in the arts arena. Be it unique painting ...

Fewer and fewer people seem to understand how our government was designed to work, Grunion columnist Harry Saltzgaver writes.

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Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

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Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

We’ve had two weeks of thinking about horrible things, and I’m taking a day off. But Existential Comics offers something ...

To Save and to Destroy by Viet Thanh Nguyen; Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk; and These Violent Delights by Micah ...

Aristotle and Plato – their names conjure up thoughts of stone busts showing serene elderly men with long curly beards. Perhaps these revered Greek philosophers really did look like that at some stage ...

In 1513, the famed Florentine Renaissance writer Niccolo Machiavelli wrote to his friend Francesco Vettori that at the close of day he would “enter the courts of ancient men, where, received by them ...