The Owl's Legacy

In Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek banquet - around tables laden with f...

Greece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for the benefit of totalitarian ideolo...

What exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary political systems? What are the analog...

Ithaca is the iconic distant home that no one should forget: such would be the universal lesson of Homer's Odyssey.

Built on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply shifted since Herodotus.

The geometrical space and the mathematical language constitute a universal legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us with. How do we articulate its perfect...

All the meanings of "logos" originated from a small territory between Ephesus and Patmos. According to Aristotle the human animal fights with a specif...

A cross between imitation and creation, the search for the beautiful and harmonious animates the artists' personal quests - including with cutting-edg...

This reflection over creation - divine cosmogony and man's creativity - takes us from the Greek statuary art to the Acropolis' Korai on show in Tokyo....

There are a set of myths to which we constantly refer ourselves. We will question their genesis, their place in psyche, their transmission, their natu...

The Greek conception of sexuality was very different from ours. What did the Greek think of desire in a world where heterosexuality and homosexuality...

The great figures borne out of Greek tragedies help us fathom the founding mechanisms of human practices - all the way to a society like Japan, that i...

Around the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in daily existence and public action...