classical
Aug 24, 2026
The Grammar of Birds
On the old Roman and Etruscan art of augury, in which the flight of birds, the fall of lightning, and the appetite of sacred chickens were read as the language of fate.
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Aug 10, 2026
The One Who Sees in Circles
A journey into the mountain country of Sicily and the Peloponnese in search of the Cyclopes — giant shepherds of Greek myth whose single eye may owe less to invention than to a bone in the ground.
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