Tag Archives: Athens

Mittell: Ukraine the beautiful

Posted on May 6, 2022 by David Brussat

My friend and former colleague at the Providence Journal, David Mittell, has sent me a timely guest post about Ukraine. He speaks of the beauty that could arise in rebuilding Ukraine after this awful war. His post brings to mind … Continue reading →

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Assassin’s Creed does Athens

Posted on March 21, 2019 by David Brussat

Here is an eight-minute video on the reconstruction of ancient Athens by game-maker Ubisoft for the latest episode (if that’s what it’s called) of Assassin’s Creed. Previous episodes have invited us into highly realistic reconstructions of Renaissance Venice and Florence … Continue reading →

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Rebuild Aristotle’s Lyceum

Posted on March 20, 2018 by David Brussat

In 1996, as construction workers cleared a site in downtown Athens for the foundations of a new Museum of Modern Art, they found traces of a large structure sitting on the bedrock. A building had occupied this same spot some … Continue reading →

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