Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Tower of Babel, c. 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Photo in public domain)) By Patrick Hunt Most readers of history will recall how the mighty juggernaut Assyria finally fell at the hands of the rebel...
Castle Vaduz, Liechtenstein (Photo in public domain) By A.C. Williams The feudal age of castles is well represented in the Rhine Valley in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria. Scattered throughout the mountainous terrain and usually near...
Hellenistic Marble Bust of Hannibal, likely from Capua, Italy (Photo in public domain ) By Patrick Hunt The subtitle of Andreas Kluth’s insightful book Hannibal and Me is “What History’s Greatest Military Strategist...
Electrum Magazine 2012 Book Prize The Sponsors, Editors, and Staff of Electrum Magazine Announce a Book Prize for 2012 for Fiction and Non-Fiction Prize of $5,000.00 US Award split 50/50 between one fiction and one nonfiction author (or...
By Patrick Hunt Silenus Majolica of Isabella d"Este, made by Nicola da Urbino, c. 1538, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Silenus is one of the most enigmatic characters in Greek Mythology. He can be recognized in art by his visual...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Tower of Babel, c. 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Photo in public domain)) By Patrick Hunt Most readers of history will recall how the mighty juggernaut Assyria...
Castle Vaduz, Liechtenstein (Photo in public domain) By A.C. Williams The feudal age of castles is well represented in the Rhine Valley in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria. Scattered throughout...
Hellenistic Marble Bust of Hannibal, likely from Capua, Italy (Photo in public domain ) By Patrick Hunt The subtitle of Andreas Kluth’s insightful book Hannibal and Me is “What History’s...
Electrum Magazine 2012 Book Prize The Sponsors, Editors, and Staff of Electrum Magazine Announce a Book Prize for 2012 for Fiction and Non-Fiction Prize of $5,000.00 US Award split 50/50 between...
By Patrick Hunt Silenus Majolica of Isabella d"Este, made by Nicola da Urbino, c. 1538, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Silenus is one of the most enigmatic characters in Greek Mythology....
James Gillray, "Britannia Between Scylla and Charybdis" 1793 (public domain) by Patrick Hunt How often do we use idioms as part...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Tower of Babel, c. 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Photo in public domain)) By Patrick Hunt Most readers...
Castle Vaduz, Liechtenstein (Photo in public domain) By A.C. Williams The feudal age of castles is well represented in the Rhine Valley in Switzerland,...
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By Patrick Hunt Most readers of history will recall how the mighty juggernaut Assyria finally fell at the hands of the rebel Babylonians and how Nineveh was sacked in 612 BCE at the able hands of Nabopolassar, Babylon’s new warlord king. Fewer readers know he rebuilt temples in his spare time after carefully studying [...]
By A.C. Williams The feudal age of castles is well represented in the Rhine Valley in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria. Scattered throughout the mountainous terrain and usually near the base of these ranges are numerous remains of the castles and forts that once ruled and dictated this Alpine passage through the upper Rhine region. Three [...]
By Patrick Hunt The subtitle of Andreas Kluth’s insightful book Hannibal and Me is “What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure”. It has more than just Hannibal wisdom, as expected from a writer for whom history is family and family is history: his great uncle was the charismatic German [...]
Electrum Magazine 2012 Book Prize The Sponsors, Editors, and Staff of Electrum Magazine Announce a Book Prize for 2012 for Fiction and Non-Fiction Prize of $5,000.00 US Award split 50/50 between one fiction and one nonfiction author (or not split if only one category is deemed worthy) Submissions from Authors and Publishers Will be [...]
By Patrick Hunt Silenus is one of the most enigmatic characters in Greek Mythology. He can be recognized in art by his visual iconography as old, fat and balding, slumped over while usually riding a donkey, often almost sliding off if not held up by someone – often another satyr [1] – or something. [...]
by Patrick Hunt How often do we use idioms as part of common speech, figures of comparison that easily sum up an experience or trial by extension? That many of these seem idioms are devoid of actual context doesn’t deter us from peppering our language with them. Some are particular or unique to one [...]
By Bianca Caprice Aguirre C.S. Lewis suggests through his idea of Shadowlands that the world we live in is full of shadows rather than the deeper realities. Although shadows that we see in the world are real and not metaphysical, there is a greater significance to them brought out by Plato in his Allegory of [...]
By Patrick Hunt Along with his many other sometimes astonishing accomplishments ranging through history and archaeology to science and literature, polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was crucial to the reception of Europe, especially Germany, for its reappraisal of classical antiquity. His 1786-87 itinerary as distilled from correspondence in Italian Journey (Italienische Reise) published circa [...]
By Sylvia Rhyne and Eric Redlinger Editor’s Note: Sylvia Rhyne, Soprano, and Eric Redlinger, Tenor and Lutenist, are the musical group Asteria (Late Medieval Vocal and Instrumentalists) who share a Courtly Love story in following their passion and dream in Burgundy. Learn more about them and their music on their website: www.asteriamusica.com. They perform at Stanford [...]
By Katherine Joplin Although the literary foundation of Western philosophy, Plato today is almost a legendary figure, his very name sparking the image of higher learning, truth, and perspicuity. How ironic then that in a mosaic of Plato’s Academy, the biggest quandary might be which figure is Plato. The mosaic was constructed sometime between [...]
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