"At last, hopelessly surveying myself all over, I was obliged to face the mortifying fact that I had been transformed not into a bird, but into a plain jackass."
- Apuleius, "The Golden Ass"
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Monday, February 17, 2025 7pm ET This talk will introduce the concepts of the speaker's new class How To Write Mythology Retellings That Sing Like the Muses . PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived
Celebrate Valentine's Day with Cupid and Psyche in Uffizi Gallery in Florence
Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there!
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Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there! Today is a special day to celebrate love and romance, and what better way to do that than to admire one of the most beautiful and touching sculptures in the world: the group of Cupid and Psyche in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This marble masterpiece [...]
The forum and #Byzantine fort in #Madauros in #Algeria. It had been made a #Roman colony for veterans in the first century during the reign of the Emperor Nerva.
The town was the birthplace in 124AD of the Numidian #Apuleius who wrote the only #Latin Roman novel, "The Golden Ass" or "Metamorphoses", to survive fully intact. He also coined the proverb "familiarity breeds contempt."
Saint #Augustine of Hippo studied there in the 4th century.
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