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Botticelli’s Primavera review – lucid study of a Renaissance masterpiece

Howard Burton’s scholarly look at the companion painting to The Birth of Venus provides a calm and instructive commentary

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The best theatre to stream this month: Starlight Express, Nye, Beat the Devil and more

A cast recording for the souped-up train musical is released, Michael Sheen plays the NHS hero at the National and David Hare delivers his Covid memoir

The Guardian - UK

A brief history of the muses: the Greek goddesses who provided divine inspiration for ancient poets

In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC) invoked her with the words “Sing, daughter of Zeus” in the first lines of his epic poem, the Odyssey.

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Best books about Greek mythology to learn the classic tales of ancient history

From immortalised classical epics to lesser-known myths

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Salman Rushdie: 'Literature Is Powerful, Writers Are Fragile'

"If we can't trust ourselves as a culture to accommodate ideas we don't like," the novelist said at the Library of Congress, "then our ideas lose their value as well, because they become authoritarian."

Reason

A brief history of abortion – from ancient Egyptian herbs to fighting stigma today

You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant feature of social life for thousands of years. The history of abortion is often told as a legal one, yet abortion has continued regardless…

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Climate change is destroying reefs, but the effects are more than ecological – coral's been woven into culture and spirituality for centuries

Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Aug. 30, 2023, bringing surging seas and winds over 100 mph. Meanwhile, another climate emergency has been unfolding along Florida’s coast this summer: a marine heat wave bleaching corals throughout the world’s third-largest barrier reef.

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Euphoria review – Cate Blanchett voices a tiger in this visually beautiful takedown of capitalism, but where’s the fury?

Melbourne town hall, Rising festivalJulian Rosefeldt’s magnificent and exhausting film, starring the Oscar winner and Giancarlo Esposito, reverts to evasive surrealist flourishes just as it threatens to become truly angry

The Guardian - AU

The North Shore by Ben Tufnell review – turning art and myth into narrative

The discovery of a body on the beach provides the pivotal moment in an essayistic novel that lacks propulsion and pace

The Guardian - UK

Caveat emptor: a new book on the best lines in Latin misses the bigger picture

One of my favourite Roman artefacts to show visiting school groups or beginner’s Latin classes is a floor mosaic from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii. The mosaic depicts a chained dog accompanied by the Latin words, CAVE CANEM (“beware of the dog”).

The Conversation

Did clitorises strike fear into the Greeks and Romans?

If an anatomical description of the clitoris only appeared in some French school text books as recently as 2017, that’s because the seat of female pleasure, known by this name since at least 1559, was deeply taboo for so long.

The Conversation

Don’t underestimate Cupid – he’s not the chubby cherub you associate with Valentine’s Day

Ah, Valentine’s Day: that Hallmark holiday of greeting cards and chocolates, its bloody origins almost entirely forgotten over the last 2,000 years!

The Conversation

Stories with teeth: How animal tales help us understand humans

From Ovid to George Orwell, writers have long been inspired by the natural world. Fifty years after the publication of Watership Down, Katherine Rundell celebrates the authors who have taken a walk on the wild side

The Guardian - UK

Ancient burials reveal how ordinary Romans fed their dead for the afterlife

In a recent study of remains found at the necropolis Vila de Madrid, researchers uncovered a surprising meal packed away for the afterlife: Fox meat.

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What does the Medusa tattoo mean? Symbolic meaning explained as TikTok trend goes viral

If you're a frequent TikTok user, you may have seen the Medusa tattoo trend that is currently going viral on the app, with many users discussing the tattoo and the meaning behind it

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Latinist,' by Mark Prins

In this retelling of the myth of Apollo and Daphne, author Mark Prins has written an engrossing psychological thriller.

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