The Siberian Unicorn
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For 200 years, it was thought Elasmotherium sibericum, The Siberian Unicorn, went extinct 350,000 years ago. Now we know they were walking the earth at the same time we were...read article here... |
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Cassini
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The space probe Cassini went on a 20-year voyage to study Saturn's secrets and as a result, our knowledge has grown, well, astronomically, one might say. Here is some of what we learned...read article here... |
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Google vs. Googol
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Whether you spell it Google or Googol, we are talking about massive numbers. And, what exactly is a Googol?...read article here... |
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The World's Oldest Royal Library
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The Library of Alexandria is one of the largest and most important libraries in Earth's history, however, it is not the oldest by more than 5 centuries. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal which holds more than 30,000 cuneiform tablets...read article here...
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Oldest known written record of Homer's Odyssey found near the ruins of the Temple of Zeus
Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey,
dated to around the 8th century BCE, are almost certain to have been
passed along in an oral tradition during the poet's lifetime. It wasn't
until the 6th century BCE that these works were written down, although
we have no written records of them dating back that far. Archeologists
now believe they have found what appears to be the earliest known
written record of the second of Homer's tales, the Odyssey at
the site of the Temple of Zeus in the ancient city of Olympia in Greece.
The Odyssey tells the tale of Odysseus' return home after
the Trojan War. Odysseus was the legendary king of Ithaca, an island off
the western coast of Greece. His return home after the Trojan War took him ten long and eventful
years. The tablet found contains 13 verses from Book 14 of this story
in which Odysseus, nearing home but disguised as a beggar, encounters his
long-time servant, Eumaios, and tells him that Odysseus is alive and
will be home soon.
Early estimates date the clay tablets to the Roman era, prior to the
3rd century BCE. They are being studied by the Greek and German
archeologists who discovered them and hopefully will soon be fully
translated.
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Unearthed: The Home Town of Oedipus
Legend has it that in 1303 BCE, King Laius of Thebes and his wife Jocasta gave birth to a boy named Oedipus. It was prophesied that he would kill his father, marry his mother, and bring disaster to his family and city, so his parents sent a shepherd servant to leave him out in the elements to die. But the shepherd couldn't bring himself to do that and instead took Oedipus to nearby Corinth, where King Polybus and his wife took the baby in and raised him as their own. Nestled in this ancient region of Corinthia was a plain that was later to become the city of Tenea, recently unearthed in Greece. This is where Oedipus was raised from child to man by his foster parents.
But that’s not all Tenea is famous for. In around 1200 BCE, Troy was destroyed by the armies led by Agamemnon of the House of Atreus and his allies. Many Trojans were captured, and according to the geographer Pausanias, Agamemnon and his armies returned to the Peloponnese with those prisoners in tow. The prisoners were allowed to build their own city, which they named Tenea after the warrior Tenes, who was killed by Achilles. They say the name of Achilles was not allowed to be mentioned in the city.
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The Odyssey tells the story of famous Odysseus, hero of ancient Greece, and his 20 year wandering return from the Trojan War. Beset by heartache and diversion, Odysseus' story is one of adventure, glory and despair of one man's determination to return home and of the times in which he lived. Timeless in the telling, it depicts an age when mythology and truth merged into reality in literary form...more
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has long been regarded, not only as Sophocles' finest play, but also as the purest and most powerful expression of Greek tragic drama. In this new verse translation, Ian Johnston captures the compelling tension of Sophocles' drama, the intense poetic vision which has made this play justly celebrated as one of the great masterpieces of Western literature...more
