Dreamers Rise

The above illustration by the late French artist Jean-Claude Pertuzé is from a version of a folktale known in French as "Jean de l'...

Let some traveller, on seeing Hermes of Commagene, aged sixteen years, sheltered in the tomb by fate, call out: I give you my greetings, l...

(I'm dusting off this old post in honor of Bob Dylan's just-released Nobel Lecture , which, among other things, cites the Odyssey. ...