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Food HistoryHanselmanns, St. Moritz Konditorei-Chocolaterie- Confiserie
4 weeks agoBy Patrick Hunt – In the Engadine Valley of Switzerland’s Graubunden Canton below the Alps, the town of St. Moritz and villages like Sils-Maria alongside Lake Silvaplana and Lake Sils are justifiably renowned since Celtic and Roman times for Roman stone roads sloping down the mountains to mineral springs, and […]
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ClassicsAn Interactive Mapping App for “An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis”
4 weeks agoBy Jess Taylor – Mapping the Greek Polis (Poleis in plural) Where were the ancient Greek cities located? What was their sphere of influence? And what did it mean to be a polis? A pioneering body of work analyzed 1,035 ancient Greek settlements from the archaic and classical periods (c. […]
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ControversiesThe Demagogues of Ancient Athens
2 months agoThe phenomenon of unscrupulous politicians stoking tensions in society for their own ends is as old as democracy itself. By John Leonard – “[T]he main cause of the overthrow of democracies is the outrageous behavior of demagogues” Aristotle, Politics I.1304b.20 As ancient Athens moved away from kingship and Archaic-era […]
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ArtAnti-National Landscape: Exploring Lee Miller’s ‘”From the Top of the Great Pyramid”‘ as Surrealism
3 months agoBy Chelsea Glickman – The rise of nationalism in Egypt is often associated with the political agenda espoused by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the fifties and sixties, yet it may also be possible to view the politically-charged artistic practices that transpired in Cairo in the preceding decades as attempting […]
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ReviewsMichael Anderson’s The Conservative Gene: A Review
4 months agoBy P. F. Sommerfeldt – Admittedly, I’m a tough nut to crack in terms of political theory – my castle has a hard and high wall and I’m difficult to impress – but Michael Anderson has done it yet again. His newest book THE CONSERVATIVE GENE: How Genetics Shape the […]
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