The Little Tanagra: Part 2

The Little Tanagra: Part 2

Previously in Part 1, Hara writes about young Arsinoe growing into a woman of remarkable talents at the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. But longing for freedom, she begins to plan her escape.     Arsinoe took longer each day to return from her...
The Little Tanagra: Part 1

The Little Tanagra: Part 1

We are delighted to introduce a new serialized work of literary fiction from Dr. Hara Papatheodorou: a fairy tale that reimagines the origins of the celebrated Tanagra figurines in ancient Greece.   In the small village of Tanagra, in Boeotia, there lived a poor...
The Angel of the Archive: The Marginalia of God

The Angel of the Archive: The Marginalia of God

Jonathan writes about a mythic book with marginalia that might reveal more than any book today. What kind of an Ironist are You? Take the quiz and find out. It is well known—at least among those who subscribe to obscure theological journals—that Anselmo of Bruges held...
The Angel of the Archive: A Lost Medieval Legend

The Angel of the Archive: A Lost Medieval Legend

Jonathan revives the myth of an angel who collects the edges of the written world. What kind of an Ironist are You? Take the quiz and find out. Among the minor curiosities of the early Rhineland monastic tradition there exists a nearly forgotten medieval legend,...