What Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” Teaches About Defying Tyranny
Aeschylus’s "Prometheus Bound" explores themes of knowledge, power, and tyranny, and in doing so raised compelling questions about Athenian imperial authority.
https://www.thecollector.com/prometheus-bound/
"Four Plays of Aeschylus" at PG:
![In Thomas Cole's, "Prometheus Bound", "the landscape is appropriately desolate; above Prometheus are imposing, snowy mountains and a cold sky. The figure himself blends in with the rocks, a conscious decision of the artist that adds an element of surprise for the viewer when the figure is finally seen; the viewer's surprise emphasizes Prometheus's desperate and desolate situation.[1] Upon further inspection a vulture is seen lower in the painting, swooping up toward Prometheus. The raptor comes at dawn, when the planet Jupiter (the "morning star") is seen in the sky.[2] As the Roman god Jupiter is the equivalent of Zeus, Prometheus's antagonist symbolically watches over him." - Wikipedia](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/082/448/568/653/376/original/5000c72ff7762509.jpg)
Black Achilles
The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
by Tim Whitmarsh
Books about Achilles at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=achilles
Solar eclipse & Einstein's theory of relativity
In late 1915, Einstein finalized his general theory of relativity using Riemannian geometry, predicting Mercury's perihelion precession and gravitational lensing. Arthur Eddington verified these predictions four years later during the 1919 solar eclipse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment#External_links
Books by Eddington at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34163
Another interesting book:
The Story of Eclipses by George F. Chambers
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24222
#books #solareclipse
3/3
Ready for the solar eclipse tomorrow?
Books about solar eclipse at PG:
Le Pays des Fourrures (The Fur Country) by Jules Verne
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Pays+des+Fourrures
King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2166
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86
Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23646
Stanford University’s Founding Matriarch Was a Travel-Loving Philanthropist Who Met a Tragic End. A New Exhibition Explores Her Life, Grief and Death by Poison
Jane Stanford’s legacy is the focus of a new showcase at the California university. The display features artifacts that have never previously been exhibited
How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye
Jasper Craven Explores the Role of War in Influencing American Literary Masculinity
Books about American fiction -- 20th century at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5104
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?
A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.
by Natalie Wolchover
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/
Books about Geophysics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=geophysics
12 Famous Artists Who Attended École des Beaux-Arts
The long list of famous students of the French art school École des Beaux-Arts included Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Henri Matisse, and many others.
https://www.thecollector.com/famous-artists-ecole-des-beaux-arts/
"Two Young Girls at the Piano" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This Medieval Astrolabe Turns 1,000 Years Old
A rare astronomical instrument made in medieval Spain has reached an extraordinary milestone. Now held by National Museums Scotland, the astrolabe offers a glimpse into the scientific knowledge of the Islamic world during the eleventh century.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/this-medieval-astrolabe-turns-1000-years-old/
On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Price at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30001
Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog
"Investigations of a Dog" is a funny and deeply philosophical tale of a lone, maladjusted dog who defies scientific dogma and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world.
By: Aaron Schuster (from the archives)
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/kafkas-screwball-tragedy-investigations-of-a-philosophical-dog/
Books by Kafka at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
How Five Points Became The Most Infamous Slum In The History Of New York City
By Ella Spitz
Located in Lower Manhattan, Five Points was a poor, overcrowded neighborhood where disease spread rapidly, rival gangs battled for control, and violent riots frequently broke out in the streets.
The Many Lives of Libraries
By The Editors
These stories span centuries and continents, revealing how libraries have shaped culture, politics, and public life
Books about Public libraries at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136
Books about Libraries -- History at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/28907
Science, religion, and political omens: the meaning of eclipses in ancient Rome
by Javier Andreu Pintado
Romans could predict eclipses, but still interpreted them as signs from the gods.
Books about eclipses (next eclipse will take place on August 12) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=eclipses
9 Supernatural Creatures in the Works of Oscar Wilde
Mermaids, giants, and witches are some of the supernatural characters readers encounter in the words of the brilliant writer Oscar Wilde.
https://www.thecollector.com/supernatural-creatures-oscar-wilde/
Wilde at PG:
Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature
by Brian Lewis
Books about Luddites at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Luddites
How storytelling can help us grasp climate change
As glaciers melt, a writer considers what stories can do that data cannot
by Adam Loften, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
More information about Vatnajökull:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatnaj%C3%B6kull
Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)
Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlantic-city-sand-sculpture/
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Witches, Scene I
This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)
Toil and Trouble
Macbeth by William Shakespeare at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1533
The Case for Aesthetic Education
Why Friedrich Schiller believed art belongs at the heart of education—and why it matters for equal opportunity today.
By: Marco Elvis Joven Domínguez
https://daily.jstor.org/the-case-for-aesthetic-education/
Books by Friedrich Schiller at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/289
