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Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) So says Shakespeare. And the world would be a better place for all of us if we only heeded the old Bard’s words. What is swirling in the vortex of [...]

An Iliad By Alessandro Barrico Vintage 158 Alessandro Barrico, of the fame of Silk, had an idea. He thought it was a neat idea to read Homer’s Iliad to a paying audience in Rome. He soon found out that the length and the archaic language and the structure of the original classic tale would be [...]