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
To celebrate the birthday of John Keats today, lets take a look at how his works were shaped by Greek poetry and literature. John Keats (1795-1821) was one of the most prominent poets of the English Romantic movement, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He is best known Read more
The other week The Fall of The House of Usher, a Netflix series inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, was released on Netflix. If you follow us regularly you will remember that Edgar Allan Poe was a student of the classics, which helped inspire many of his works. Greek literature Read more
A few days ago 4 new short movies based on Roald Dahl short stories were released on Netflix: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher and Poison. Directed by Wes Anderson, who previously directed another Roald Dahl adaptation, Fantastic Mr. Fox (from 2009), and starring actors Read more
On Sept. 9, 1959, NASA launched Big Joe 1, the first launch of Project Mercury (the Roman name of Greek god Hermes). This was a milestone in NASA’s goal to put land on the moon. NASA’s Project Mercury was a pioneering achievement in the history of human space exploration. It Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most famous and influential people in the world, known for his achievements as a bodybuilder, actor, politician, and businessman. He was born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, a small village near Graz, Austria. His father was a police officer and his mother was Read more
You might have missed Blackberry when it came out in May, but you should definitely watch it. It’s a movie about Mike Lazaridis, the Father of the Smartphone, and how he forever changed the mobile phone market when he created the first smartphone in 1999. Although Blackberry is no longer Read more