Links for February 6th

CANE Media Coordinator
February 6, 2016

A comparison is drawn between storytelling in Homer and storytelling in a modern epic like Star Wars.
On the methods employed by ancient counterfeiters to fool the authorities.
On the NFL abandoning Roman numerals for the Super Bowl tomorrow.
If Herodotus were to write about the Super Bowl, this might be what he’d say.

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