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Topic: Ancient Greece

A performance of the "Oedipus" plays by Sophocles, 1996. (Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

How theater can save democracy

Bernd Reiter
Painting "Antigone in front of the dead Polynices" by Nikiphoros Lytras (Wikimedia Commons/National Gallery of Athens)

A hero's body: Greek tragedy and Navalny

Elizabeth Bobrick
Lizzo attends the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, March 2021 ( Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Lizzo & Cardi B's classical Greek twist

Grace B. McGowan - The Conversation
(AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

What Aristotle can teach us about Trump

Anthony F. Arrigo - The Conversation
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The secret history of beauty

David Konstan
Harrison Ford as archaeologist Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Why archaeology captivates us

Laura Miller
Ruins of Astypalaia (kern/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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