EXTRAORDINARY ZIMBABWE CAVE ARTThe cave of Inanke in southern Zimbabwe contains some of the least known but most magnificent prehistoric paintings in the world. Intricately varied animal, human, and geometric images stretch along a broad 30-foot (10 m)-long painted band of granite wall. This ..
Like a butterfly crazed with love,the hope I harbour within my heartflutters forever around the flame. And scorching its wings,is buried where it dies in its ill-fated birthplace. This lovely lament about the fatal nature of love is sung in Act II of the Baroque opera, Zenobia in Palmira, to ..
Zenobia's blog, that is -- three years old today. Back in 2007, when Zenobia went on-line for the first time, we began with a poem by Anne Stevenson.Today, as befits the darker vision of this New Decade, I turn to Frank Manley. Here is his ZenobiaZenobia rose like the star of the ..
Although I'm an archaeologist, I still have the classics at heart. So let's begin this edition of Carnivalesque with a nod to those who may dream of reading the world through the prism of Ancient Greek, which is what you can do on Akropolis World News .The brainchild of J. Coderch (Senior ..
My review of The Poison King, a new book by Adrienne Mayor, appears today in the Times Higher Education. Here's what I wrote:The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest EnemyJust the potion to needle a republicJudith Weingarten delights in the life of a leader who tested Romans with ..