• As modern Greece struggles with debt and increased emigration, a new adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Persians has become particularly relevant to audiences. (New York Review of Books)

• In eighteenth-century France, Denis Diderot channeled his intellectual energy into creating the precursor to Wikipedia: “The Encyclopédie was conceived as a fully interactive text. At times, he tacks on his own commentaries, marked by an asterisk, which send up the incongruities and lunacies lacing the original articles. At other times, Diderot appends his era’s own version of hyperlinks—cross-listings—which take the reader to other ‘sites’ in the encyclopedia that contradict the original entry—so that, as he wrote, the ‘entire mud edifice’ of baseless claims will collapse into a “vain heap of dust.”’ (Boston Globe)

• In Kentucky, a creationist group is spending $29 million on the construction of what they say will be a historically accurate version of Noah’s Ark. When complete, the ark will stand ten stories high, and it will be the centerpiece of a biblical theme park slated to open next summer. (Curbed)

• The Donald Judd Foundation is hosting studio hours in the artist’s home, opened to the public in 2013. “Judd had purchased the five-story, century-old building for $68,000 and immediately set about restoring its interior, floor by floor, detail by detail—a project that would take him nearly a quarter century to complete. (Today, it is the only single-use cast-iron building remaining in Soho.)” (Paris Review Daily)

• A list of rooms left untouched for decades, including Edwin Booth’s New York City apartment and a Liverpool playroom. (Mental Floss)

• “Stevenson once removed his coat in a drawing room—a vivid breach of etiquette—because he felt the conversation shifting away from him. ‘You might as well put your coat on again, no one is taking any notice of you,’ his hostess told him.” The curious, challenging life of Robert Louis Stevenson. (Humanities)

• What’s in a name? Writer Harrison Scott Key attempts to answer the question in a meditation on heritage, family, and the legacy of the writer of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” (Oxford American)

• New York City prepares to throw a ticker-tape parade for members of the World Cup-winning U.S. Women’s Soccer team. The first such parade was held in 1886 for the dedication of the Statue of Liberty: “According to the Downtown Alliance, which oversees the business improvement district in lower Manhattan, 130 of the city’s 205 ticker-tape parades occurred from 1945 to 1965. They included parades for national political figures (Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower) and foreign ones (Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands).” (New York Times)

• What we’d purchase with $6,300 this week: a bottle of ale brewed for an 1875 arctic expedition. (CBC)