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Has Homer's Ithaca been found at last? (opens the original)
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And then, that hour the star rose up,the clearest, brightest star, that always heraldsthe newborn light of day, the deep-sea-going shipmade landfall on the island . . . Ithaca, at last.The Odyssey 13.105-117, trans. Robert FaglesThe Odyssey is a story of homecoming, even if its hero is remarkably willing to dally with half-divine sorceresses along the way. And the name of Odysseus’ homeland — Ithaca. <
America's Roman Revolution (opens the original)
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The Founders’ RomeI spent America’s 250th birthday, and incidentally my own 28th, in New York. It was 39°C (102°F) and humid. A friend had, mercifully, invited a few of us up to his place in Connecticut; a low-slung mid-century house built over a stream with shaded gardens and a polystyrene archery-target shaped like a turkey.We drove back to the city in the evening just as the heatwave was breaking into a thunderstorm that sent branches flying onto the freeway. It was the sort of weather that w
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