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Painting — 15 May 2024

The Fateful Meeting of Atahualpa & Pizarro (with Prof. Tom Cummins, Harvard)

By Dr Richard Marranca

History & Tradition

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I was extraordinarily fortunate to meet the esteemed Dr. Tom Cummins nearly twenty years ago in Cusco, Peru - one of the great world centers, or axis mundi. Tom was one of our brilliant lecturers during the five-week NEH summer study, ‘Andean...
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Painting — 15 May 2024

The Fateful Meeting of Atahualpa & Pizarro (with Prof. Tom Cummins, Harvard)

By Dr Richard Marranca

History & Tradition

0

I was extraordinarily fortunate to meet the esteemed Dr. Tom Cummins nearly twenty years ago in Cusco, Peru - one of the great world centers, or axis mundi. Tom was one of our brilliant lecturers during the five-week NEH summer study, ‘Andean...
Read More

Beware the Greeks bearing gifts, by Henry Paul Motte (19th century) (Public Domain) — 31 Jan 2024

The Iliad And The Odyssey: Lessons From Humanities

By Dr Richard Marranca

Mythology & Mystery

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The Humanities are by definition concerned with humankind’s life-chances and life-fates, and mortality captures humanness from one essential viewpoint – all humans inevitably die. All human life, and too often death, feature in the monumental...
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Beware the Greeks bearing gifts, by Henry Paul Motte (19th century) (Public Domain) — 31 Jan 2024

The Iliad And The Odyssey: Lessons From Humanities

By Dr Richard Marranca

Mythology & Mystery

0

The Humanities are by definition concerned with humankind’s life-chances and life-fates, and mortality captures humanness from one essential viewpoint – all humans inevitably die. All human life, and too often death, feature in the monumental...
Read More

Scene from Plato’s Symposium by Anselm Feuerbach (1871) (Public Domain) — 06 Nov 2023

Utopia, Euphoria: Greek Philosophers Searching For The Good Life

By Dr Richard Marranca

History & Tradition

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To the ancient Greeks, philosophy – literally the love of wisdom - as a therapy or treatment of bodily ailments implied a holistic, psychosomatic understanding of the human mind, body and soul. Conversely, some Greek doctors whose writings have...
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Scene from Plato’s Symposium by Anselm Feuerbach (1871) (Public Domain) — 06 Nov 2023

Utopia, Euphoria: Greek Philosophers Searching For The Good Life

By Dr Richard Marranca

History & Tradition

0

To the ancient Greeks, philosophy – literally the love of wisdom - as a therapy or treatment of bodily ailments implied a holistic, psychosomatic understanding of the human mind, body and soul. Conversely, some Greek doctors whose writings have...
Read More

Mamaconas or nun’s enclosure at Pachacamac ( Caio/ Adobe Stock) — 06 Sep 2023

Revisiting The Oracle Of Pachacamac In Peru

By Dr Richard Marranca

Archaeology & Science

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Since ancient times, ubiquitous to various cultures, humankind has sought to overcome that which they cannot control, such as healing mysterious afflictions and trying to predict the veiled future, by undertaking pilgrimages to consult oracles. ...
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Mamaconas or nun’s enclosure at Pachacamac ( Caio/ Adobe Stock) — 06 Sep 2023

Revisiting The Oracle Of Pachacamac In Peru

By Dr Richard Marranca

Archaeology & Science

0

Since ancient times, ubiquitous to various cultures, humankind has sought to overcome that which they cannot control, such as healing mysterious afflictions and trying to predict the veiled future, by undertaking pilgrimages to consult oracles. ...
Read More

Depiction of Areopagus (Athenian governing council) with Acropolis in the background by Leo von Klenze (1846) (Public Domain) — 28 Jul 2023

True Democracy? Oligarchy Versus Ochlokratia In Athens

By Dr Richard Marranca

History & Tradition

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If what is taken to matter most is the power of decision-making, and, as part of that, the power to call executive office-holders to account by judicial or other means, then the first democracy properly so called anywhere in the world was that of...
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Depiction of Areopagus (Athenian governing council) with Acropolis in the background by Leo von Klenze (1846) (Public Domain) — 28 Jul 2023

True Democracy? Oligarchy Versus Ochlokratia In Athens

By Dr Richard Marranca

History & Tradition

0

If what is taken to matter most is the power of decision-making, and, as part of that, the power to call executive office-holders to account by judicial or other means, then the first democracy properly so called anywhere in the world was that of...
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