In antiquity, as today, responses to extraordinary bodies and lives of monsters and Others fall on a continuum from negative to positive. Bodily otherness of real animals, imaginary hybrid creatures, ...

Emily Wilson used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.

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The Earliest Known Purposefully Collected Ichthyosaurian Fossil: A Vertebral Centrum from a Second-century a.d. Roman Pit in Colchester, Essex

Aspen Art Museum is an artist-founded institution dedicated to supporting artists in the development of bold ideas to shape our museum and the field of art today. We are both a platform and a place, h...

Almost half of the prospective jurors for a Twitter investor lawsuit against Elon Musk were disqualified because they declared their hatred for him.

A rapidly rotating body of water that pulls in and submerges floating objects.

The latest episode of The World in Time.

The war between the Thunder Birds and the Water Monsters involved ranged warfare; they fired missiles at one another which the Sioux called kangi tame, or the blackened remains of lightning bolts.

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The latest episode of The World in Time.

A.E. Stallings’s reflections on the Elgin Marbles illustrate how beautiful objects have the power to inspire both the noblest effusions and the pettiest efforts at acquisition.

Using repatriation to stage an art heist

Historian of science Adrienne Mayor on how fossils become folklore and how stories can save your life.

Using repatriation to stage an art heist

An unsettling argument from antiquity sounds a moral warning for the future.

Led by political scientist Josiah Ober, the Stanford Civics Initiative aims to inspire democratic citizenship through courses and programs focused on civics education.

Using lessons from ancient Athens, the political scientist is inspiring a new way of thinking about civic responsibilities at Stanford and across the country.

An unsettling argument from antiquity sounds a moral warning for the future.

There is a tree that is so poisonous that it has long been a symbol of poison itself.

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore...

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