The Antikythera Mechanism: A Real-Life Enigma Earlier this week, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny won 3 Saturn Awards (including Best Fantasy Film and Best Actor for Harrison Ford), as well as a Grammy Award for its soundtrack (which is also nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar). In Read more
This past Sunday, Star Trek was one of the big winners at the Saturn Awards, which are like the Oscars for fantasy & science-fiction movies/series. Star Trek: Picard picked up 4 Saturn Awards, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was also awarded 1 Saturn Award. They even awarded a special Read more
With the Baltimore Ravens playing in the NFL Conference Championship on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, its a great time to look at how they got their name. The Baltimore Ravens were named after the famous poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, because Edgar Allan Poe lived in Read more
To celebrate Lord Byron’s birthday (Jan. 22, 1788), lets learn more about him. Lord Byron was a British poet and one of the most influential figures of the Romantic movement in the early 19th century. He was born George Gordon Byron on January 22, 1788, in London, England, to a Read more
The Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, is a seven-book series that has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. The series follows the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley as they attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Read more
January 3rd was the birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit series. To celebrate his birthday, we will take a look the influence that the Classical World had on his works. The classical world, the history and culture of ancient Greece and Read more
The year 2024 will mark a historic milestone for the Olympic movement, as it will be the 2,800th anniversary of the first official Olympic Games. According to the ancient Greek tradition, the first official Olympic Games were held in 776 BC in Olympia, a sacred site in southern Greece dedicated to Read more
This week we get not one, but TWO new releases based on Greek mythology. Disney+ has released a tv adaptation of Rick Riordan’s best-selling series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, while Warner Bros. released the sequel to Aquaman, one of the original Justice League characters who is inspired by Poseidon. Read more
The Aeneid, written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, is an epic poem that tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The Aeneid is widely regarded as Virgil’s masterpiece Read more
This past week was the birthday of the famous British author C.S. Lewis (Nov. 29 to be exact), so to celebrate we will take a look at how Greek literature and poetry have had a profound impact on his work. Lewis was a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Read more