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Category Archives: POLITICS

16.08.15

Mythic Significance

Above the doorway at 120 North La Salle Street a mosaic...
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10.08.15

A Lysistrata for Chiraq

Lysistrata is a comic drama  written by the Athenian dramatist Aristophanes.  The ancient...
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20.03.15

History of working people in antiquity begins in Chicago

  Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co, a Chicago instiution that Studs...
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13.03.15

A Socrates for Chicago’s Courthouse

    Public art in the courthouse that once stood on...
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18.02.15

Athena in Jackson Park

The 24-ft gilded woman in Jackson Park is a small replica...
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18.02.15

Daley as Caesar? Mike Royko’s Boss

Was Mayor Richard J. Daley a metropolis-molding tyrant of Caesarian proportions?...
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18.02.15

A Boxing Odysseus Wows Crowd at Hull House

Like the famously wily Odysseus, Jane Addams often needed to think...
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17.02.15

Political satire invokes ancient sex worker

Satirical magazine Puck published this cartoon, “Phryne before the Chicago Tribunal,”...
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