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2 days ago · By Alexandra Alter. May 25, 2024. For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living ...
May 13, 2024 · Date accessed: 13 May, 2024. This rich volume, Byzantium and the Other: Relations and Exchanges, is one of three collections of essays designed to bear testament to the legacy of the late Byzantine scholar Angeliki Laiou. The other two volumes are entitled: Women, Family and Society in Byzantium and Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium.
The book does a great job of capturing the crushing feeling of despair of the Romans after this point, on both the higher and lower levels of society. John V, Manuel II, John VIII, and Constantine XI all try so damn hard to prolong the empires life but they're only delaying the inevitable and are fighting gravity.
4 days ago · Bruce MacLennan's 2013 book The Wisdom of Hypatia presents Hypatia as a guide who introduces Neoplatonic philosophy and exercises for modern life. In The Plot to Save Socrates (2006) by Paul Levinson and its sequels, Hypatia is a time-traveler from the twenty-first century United States.
1) The Opening Crisis (395-429) - Theodosius's sons come to power and Stilicho engages in a cold war with the east until his execution. Alaric and his Visigoths leave the east and go west, eventually sacking Rome. The Vandals and Suebi cross the Rhine and reach Hispania. Honorius's general Constantius is able to beat back all these barbarian ...
3 days ago · A Different Kind of Female Protagonist. Two new literary works from Colombe Schneck and R. O. Kwon feature fascinating, flawed women. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors ...
6 days ago · A poet and a woman religious whose work often appeared in America, M. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., is known for much more than her verse. She was also a pioneer in Catholic education in the United States.
