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Earthworms and Honey

One of the most interesting questions for anyone who studies the ancient world is, I think, this one: to what extent were the Greeks and Romans much like us, and how far were they really different? ...
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Earthworms and Honey

One of the most interesting questions for anyone who studies the ancient world is, I think, this one: to what extent were the Greeks and Romans much like us, and how far were they really different? ...
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This is Sparta? – The missing slaves of “300”

For many, the elite warriors that King Leonidas and company portray in 300 (2006) is the most striking and pervasive representation of Spartans readily available to a modern audience. Hollywood ...
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Is it wrong to talk of ‘rights’ in ancient Greece?

Have a look at the following quotation from Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War (book 6 chapter 92). The original Greek words are written underneath the English ...
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Trial by Poetry: Phillis Wheatley and her Classical Inheritance

Thou who did'st first th' ideal pencil give,And taught'st the painter in his works to live,Inspire with glowing energy of thought,What Wilson painted, and what Ovid wrote.Muse! lend thy aid, nor let ...
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Homeric war on film

Cinema has provided many opportunities for the ancient world to be presented in challenging ways. The Homeric epics being one of the main mythological sources of antiquity and having influenced the ...
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