Arts & Culture
Ithaca Bound
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“We tell the myths out of context, reinterpret the events through the lenses of our time, reinterpret the people to be the kinds of heroes we want,” writes Luke Babb.
Conservation
Two thousand year old statue of Athena discovered in Turkey
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The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism announced the discovery of a statue of the goddess Athena from the Augustan period that is nearly two meters tall in the ancient city of Laodikeia.
Europe
Evidence of a shrine to Odysseus found on Ithaca
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Archeologists with the University of Ioannina have used decades of excavations on the Greek island of Ithaca to identify the site of a shrine that was the center of a cult to Odysseus, hero of Homer’s Odyssey.