Penny’s 19th installment in the beloved Gamache series is a particularly haunting and relevant mystery novel. Yael van der Wouden’s novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about ...
The fortunate islands treasure a good handful of legends in whose universe we delve.Even the very Atlantis of Plato could have been in Spain. Specifically, in the Canary Islands. It is one of the ...
Did Saint Thomas More, the Renaissance humanist and theologian, imagine it as a happy place in his book Utopia in 1517? Not if it was a satire or at least not for the slaves there, two to every ...
It’s tempting to imagine that the world was once home to mythical lands of beauty and abundance whose streets were lined with ...
Australian Catholic University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the ...
The Greek philosopher Plato said Atlantis was an island ... He is currently writing a book that debunks the Atlantis story. He told the Express that the research into the wrecks and the metal ...