This museum is really creepy and cool but very interesting as well! They also have a great gift shop. The staff were also very nice. I would say though, if you have young kids you might want to think twice before coming here. I would say it is not for kids. It...
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld /Photocourtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain To return to the episode of the brazen bull, I would mention one of the most memorable poetic accounts of infernal descents. I am referring to Book 6 of theAeneid, where Aeneas follows the Sibyl...
For a long time -- at least six decades -- photographs have laid down the tracks of how important conflicts are judged and remembered. The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one. Photographs have an insuperable power to determine what we recall of events, and it now seems probabl...