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    Pictorial Atlas to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (1892)
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    Pictorial Atlas to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (1892)

    Curiosities from the Museum of Giovanni Carafa (1778)
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    Curiosities from the Museum of Giovanni Carafa (1778)

    Bernard Sleigh’s *Anciente Mappe of Fairyland* (ca. 1920 edition)
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    Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

    Charles Davy’s *Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing* (1772)
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    Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

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    Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

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    Same as It Ever Was?: Eternal Recurrence in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

    Same as It Ever Was?: Eternal Recurrence in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

    By Claire Hall

    While Friedrich Nietzsche popularised the notion of an “eternal return” — in which one’s life would occur again, forever, exactly as it did before — the concept was itself a repetition. Claire Hall explores various shades of this idea in ancient philosophy, from Pythagorean metempsychosis to Stoic predictions about a cosmological reset. more

    15 May 2024
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