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When Art Speaks: Words, Images, and Storytelling in Ancient Greece
Before books and movies, stories traveled through voices. In ancient Greece, myths were shared through poetry, performance, music, and conversation. Stories about gods and heroes were not confined to written texts, as they were part of a living oral tradition. Ancient Greek artists participated in that tradition in a different way, telling stories through images.…
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Newberry Library
The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood across from the beautiful Washington Square Park. Founded in 1887, it specializes in the humanities, with a multitude of rare book collections, manuscripts, maps, music, and other archival documents. Unlike a traditional library, the Newberry is a non-circulating research library; this…
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A Dark and Stormy Night
Case Journal of Nathaniel Faust, Curse-breaker and Master of Mystic Science 19 Mar. 20– Locksholm Museum would be better served to call itself a mausoleum. Only the dead remain—and they cannot leave. I’m not sure what woke me, the flash and sound were equally magnificent, like gods fighting to prove themselves superior to each other.…
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