Ancient Greeks observed that Iberian warriors received special burial monuments in their native land and culture. For full disclosure, the ancient Greek sources (such...
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804)
"Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle...
This blue painting, by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), re-creates a storied scene from the early life of Moses, the famous Hebrew...
Chuang Tzu (c. 370-287 BCE)
"Embrace the ten thousand things universally—how could there be one you should give special support to?"
From Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings...
In this painting, the French artist Merry-Joseph Blondel (c. 1781–1853) envisions the mythical or legendary King Numa Pompilius of Rome, traditionally dated to have...
This video is about the legendary and megalithic poet, Homer. Though his name and work are universally known, the man, himself, remains quite mysterious.
All...
Sigurd the Volsung (figure from Norse and Germanic legend)
"Courage is better than the power of a sword,
where angry men have to fight;
for I've seen...
