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1. Did comedy kill Socrates?

2015 has seen a special landmark in cultural history: the 2500th anniversary of the official ‘birth’ of comedy. It was in the spring of 486 BC that Athens first included plays called comedies (literally, ‘revel-songs’) in the programme of its Great Dionysia festival. Although semi-improvised comic performances had a long prehistory in the folk culture of Athens, it was only from 486 that comedy became, alongside tragedy (which had an older place in Athenian festivals), one of the two defining archetypes of theatre

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2. A Card To Say Sorry

Buy Card Here I have just finished creating my last illustration into a card. It is now available for sale. This card is a caring way to say sorry.

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3. Illustration Friday and Apologies

Illustration Friday's theme this week is “The Blues” so I thought I would take the opportunity to create a design for a gift card. I guess it is an opposite to a thank you card. I created an apology card for times when people want to say sorry.

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4. Make Music and Carpe Diem,Or, Etymological Fiddle-Faddle

anatoly.jpgBy Anatoly Liberman

The names of musical instruments are often loanwords, in English they are usually from Greek (via French intermediaries) or Italian. Sometimes their original forms are transparent. Thus the medieval wind instrument shawm goes back to Greek kalamos “reed”; nothing could be simpler. (more…)

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