by Michael Wood
Like many people I was fascinated by the story of Troy from childhood. Then, when I was about fourteen, I read Leonard Cottrell’s Bull of Minos with its evocative ...
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by Dr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities, King's College London
The Hippocratic Oath, which is commonly dated to around the late fifth or early ...
by Dr Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr College
Imagine that you have gathered your furniture, your computer, your precious possessions, perhaps art you have made, your journal or your family ...
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How would you react if you walked into the classroom one day to find your new teacher was Professor Dumbledore, Gandalf the Grey, or Merlin the Wizard? Would you fear their magical powers? Would you ...
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