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Eros Before Cupid: Desire at the Beginning of the Greek Cosmos
The familiar image of Eros is a winged boy armed with a bow. Greek tradition, however, also preserves a much older and stranger idea: Eros as a power...
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Before Tartarus became shorthand for a place of punishment, Greek poetry imagined it as something ol...
Nyx: Primordial Night in Greek Mythology
Before the Olympian gods ruled the cosmos, Greek poetry imagined Night as a power with ancestry, chi...
Erebus: Primordial Darkness and the Greek Underworld
Before the gods ruled from Olympus, Greek poetry imagined powers that belonged to the structure of t...
The Forgotten Origin of the Term “World Wide Web” | The Idea That Connected the Planet
Most of us can’t imagine a day without the ‘web.’ It’s our library, our mall, our office, and our co...
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We plan our lives in seven-day cycles. Work, rest, repeat. But have you ever stopped to wonder why i...
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