Jefferson Public Radio

What Kimmel and Colbert can learn from ancient comedians who ticked off their leaders

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets ...
Times of San Diego

Greek Fates Meet Computerized Destiny at the San Diego Museum of Art

A multimedia animation of the classic Greek Fates — the three weaving goddesses who assign individual destinies to mortals at birth — opens Saturday at the San Diego Museum of Art. Nick Roth’s “Fates” ...

What Ancient Rome and Greece can teach us about comedians and free speech

As president Donald Trump celebrates the cancelation of comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and says he hopes the same fate will befall others who have been similarly critical, a look at the ...
The Conversation

As Fates would have it - what we learn from minor players in Greek tragedies and Hollywood films

Elodie Paillard receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Many will be familiar with the looming presence of Oedipus or Antigone in Classical Greek tragedy. But how many remember ...
Wall Street Journal

Greek Banks at Mercy of the Fates

Greek banks are about the most emotional trade in the stock market right now. The problem for investors is that there are few real reasons to buy or sell—everything depends upon what political game ...