Paul Klee, a German artist, highlighted the eternal struggle of human beings to synthesize the “inner vision” with “outside experience.” “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”-Michelangelo “Beauty is the illumination of the soul!”-Poet-Theologian O’Donohue, Art & the Unconscious Psyche-Psychic Life Carl Jung…[Read more]

Karen Armstrong, In her book, The Case For God, opens with the discussion of the 300 plus caves in Southern France and Northern Spain which have amazingly artistic ‘prehistoric’ cave paintings of prehistoric animals many of whom are now extinct, some dating to 30,000 years ago. “In all there are about six hundred frescoes and fifteen hundred engra…[Read more]

This article re-analyses in detail the meaning of the expression ludi Graeci which appears in two of Cicero’s letters (Ad Fam. 7,1 and Ad Att. 15,5). A careful examination of the first instance reveals that ludi Graeci indeed referred to theatrical performances in Greek language and not merely to Latin plays that followed Greek models. A brief s…[Read more]

At Christmas, Christians celebrate that Jesus was born on December 25 as the son of God andthe Virgin Mary. But this event is not unique. In this article, I show that the birth of Jesus hasseveral non-Christian predecessors, whereby various elements of the ritual dynamics have beenChristianized and implemented into the figure we know today as Jesus Christ.

Bukod sa musika at sining, nagpapakita ako ng isang magaspang na balangkas para sa pananaw sa ilang pwersonal na espirituwal-psychic na karanasan.+. “Ang musika ay isang pangunahing bahagi ng ating ebolusyon; marahil ay kumanta kami bago kami magsalita sa mga pangungusap na may gabay na sintaktik. Ang kanta ay kinakatawan sa buong mundo ng h…[Read more]

.“MUSIC is a fundamental part of our evolution; we probably sang before we spoke in syntactically guided sentences. Song is represented across animal worlds; birds and whales produce sounds, though not always melodic to our ears, but still rich in semantically communicative functions. Song is not surprisingly tied to a vast array of semiotics t…[Read more]

Lawrence K. Wang and Mu-Hao Sung Wang (2023). Chinese cloisonné : artistic enamelware for east-west culture exchange through land and sea silk roads. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics”, Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Vol. 5, No. 11A, 5(11A), November 20, 2023, 38 pp. Lenox…[Read more]

Hung-ping Tsao (2023). A Well-rounded Distribution of Small Prime Numbers as Terminal Values in the Process of Summing up all Factors of the Natural Numbers. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). 5(10D), October 2023; 59 pp. Lenox Institute…[Read more]

Lawrence K. Wang (2023). Chinese & Taiwanese Histories Recorded by Circulation Coins; In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Volume 5, Number 10B, October 2023; 5(10B), 90 pages, . Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA.…[Read more]

Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Thomas Suozzo, Rebecca A. Dixon, and Terry L. Wright (2023) . Chemical and Biochemical Technologies for Environmental Infrastructure Sustainability, In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Volume 5, Number…[Read more]

Lawrence K. Wang and Mu-Hao Sung Wang (2023). New Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment” In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Volume 5, Number 10C, October 2023; 5(10C), 34 pages, . Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. L…[Read more]

Elodie Paillard, ‘Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances’, in E. Csapo, H.R. Goette, J. R. Green, B. Le Guen, E. Paillard, J. Stoop, P. Wilson, Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, De Gruyter, 2022

This book explores the staging of non-élite characters in the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and how they related to contemporary middling citizens. The structure of fifth-century Athenian society underwent deep changes between the early and late plays of Sophocles. The appearance and growing political importance of a middling…[Read more]

The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, William A. Selke, and Donald B. Aulenbach (2010). Flotation Technology, Humana Press, Springer Nature, USA. 680 pages. doi = 10.1007/978-1-60327-133-2; ISBN : 978-1-58829-494-4 ……. ABSTRACT: This flotation technology book has four special features: (a) Detailed coverage of the principles of air…[Read more]

This paper aims to examine models by which symbolism of light and lamp in
the Mediterranean region was manifested in the early Christian visual culture,
i.e. lamp representations from Central Balkans. Lamps with Early
Christian representations are considered in the context of transculturality
of Late Antiquity, as well as political and…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping (2023). 500 Natural Sudoku Puzzles. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 5, NUMBER 9B, September 2023; 477 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 02466, USA. No. STEAM-VOL5-NUM9B-SEP2023; …….. ABSTRACT:…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping (2023). The Natural Sudoku Lecture 10. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 5, NUMBER 9A, September 2023; 58 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 02466, USA. No. STEAM-VOL5-NUM9A-SEP2023; ISBN…[Read more]

Lu, Toh-Ming (2023). My road to semiconductor research. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (Editors). Volume 5, Number 8A, 5(8A), August 1, 2023, 33 pages. Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. Lenox.Institute@gmail.com; lut@rpi.edu.…[Read more]