History of working people in antiquity begins in Chicago
The 1887 book that introduced many people across the English-speaking...
Category Archives: ARTS
A Downtown Pompeian Villa
In the 1950s the luxurious Congress Hotel on South Michigan Avenue...
Community Murals Notice Classical Presences
A 600-ft long cement bench covered with paintings by local families...
Atlas-Spotting in “City of the Big Shoulders”
Visual representations of Atlas can be found throughout Chicago, though perhaps...
Mythic Ceiling Murals
Extraordinary mythical scenes are all over the ceiling of the Chicago...
All Our Tragic: A Chicago Dionysia
All Our Tragic, a 12-hour long festive adaptation of Greek tragedy,...
A Boxing Odysseus Wows Crowd at Hull House
Like the famously wily Odysseus, Jane Addams often needed to think...
Pegasus, POETRY’s Mascot
How does an ancient mythical creature turn into a benchmark of...
Political satire invokes ancient sex worker
Satirical magazine Puck published this cartoon, “Phryne before the Chicago Tribunal,”...
