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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Aeneas | History Defined

Quote of the day by Roman poet Virgil: 'If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell', and a celebration of determination

Roman poet Virgil who is best known for his epic, The Aeneid, wrote a famous line through the character of Juno. "If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell," is one of the most memorable declarations in classical literature. The original Latin reads: "Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."…

The Times of India

Walk My World: Dystopian immersive theatre sets an epic new bar

This epic show in Budapest might well be signifying the future of live theatrical experiences

Evening Standard

Dido and Aeneas review – close your eyes and this was a tremendous performance

The Monteverdi Choir’s account of Purcell’s opera was delivered with devastating clarity, but it was somewhat smothered beneath a 200ft ship’s hull

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Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. But the real surprise isn’t just where the fragment was found. It’s how it got there. To understand, we must go back –…

The Conversation

Dido and Aeneas review – young Welsh talent shines bright in Purcell

Created in just a week with a cast of rising stars and amateur singers, Mid Wales Opera’s production – and its heart-wrenching ending – is a remarkable achievement

The Guardian - UK

Flinging circus into the 21st century: how the immersive Walk My World became a Budapest must-see

Hungarian director Bence Vági’s latest work showcases a modern style of acrobatics where performers soar above as the audience wanders from room to room

The Guardian - UK

In war-weary Kyiv, wounded Ukrainian veterans turn epic poetry into living testimony

War veterans with severe injuries from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have taken the stage in Kyiv in an adaptation of Ivan Kotliarevskyi’s “Eneida.”

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‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Alan Kurdi symbolised an army of dead children. We ignore them at our peril

In a piece published a year after the death of the two-year-old boy, the late Robert Fisk asked whether the world had learned any lessons from the tragedy

The Independent UK

Google unveils AI that deciphers missing Latin words in ancient Roman inscriptions

AI sets new state-of-the-art benchmark in restoring and dating damaged texts, scientists say

The Independent UK

AI Helps Latin Scholars Decipher Ancient Roman Texts

Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient Romans -- and posing a daunting challenge for the historians tasked with interpreting them.

International Business Times

Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions

Program Aeneas, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historians

The Guardian - UK

In Ancient Greece and Rome, who were the harpies, and why did they stink so much?

Once yelled at women seen to be pestering or annoying – or at feminists questioning and threatening the status quo – “harpy” has long been used as a derogatory term targeting women.

The Conversation

Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family

Samuel Hartveld’s great-grandchildren to welcome back stolen 17th-century painting that was sold to Tate Britain

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Readers reply: Which works of fiction have an optimistic view of the future?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - AU

Three things with Kate Mulvany: ‘I’d frame all that bewilderment and fury and hang it on a wall’

In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the actor and writer tells us about a childhood photograph – and her trusty, wizardly companion

Salon

"Punk": Don Winslow on Donald Trump

Self-defined "cult writer" on his final novel (he says!) and his new career as anti-Trump social media agitator

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 64: Les Troyens; Prom 65: Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; Proms 62 & 63: The Rite by Heart– review

With a stand-in conductor and a stellar cast, Berlioz’s monumental opera came into its own at the Proms; the BBC Symphony Orchestra let Bruckner’s colours unfurl; and Aurora’s Stravinsky played from memory proved unforgettable

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Evening Standard

Prom 64: Berlioz’s The Trojans at the Royal Albert Hall review – the glorious grand opera sounded gorgeous

Dinis Sousa stepped in for John Eliot Gardiner and made a magnificent job of it

Space

Artemis 2 moon crew announcement felt like a Canadian history time warp

Jeremy Hansen will be the first Canadian to go to the moon on the Artemis 2 mission. A Canadian reporter reflects upon the history that brought us here.

Tribune News Service

Murder, revenge, power: Don Winslow reveals classical inspirations for crime novel ‘City On Fire’

In the mid-’90s, Don Winslow had already published a handful of novels when he decided to fill the gaps in his literary education by reading through a list of the great books of world literature.

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