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September 23, 2024However much he longed to go home after ten years of warfare in Asia, Ulysses the warrior-hero never much wanted to be home. More than the regular warfighter, kings, when...
May 13, 2024Downbeats are what initiate musical measures; upbeats are what end them. For the conductor and orchestra, the downbeat creates the sense of structure and provides stability,...
April 25, 2024Kings, presidents, and corporate titans may not undergo Shakespeare’s seven parts in their careers. But all rise to power, exercise it, and fall from it. That basic and...
January 26, 2024When Emperor Julian’s private secretary, the Greek sophist and rhetorician Himerius, was trying to get his son Rufinus admitted into the Areopagus in the fourth century AD, he...
