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Unlike the Greek focus on external honor, Christianity turns the gaze inward. The believer must acknowledge personal ...
The famed ancient Greek hero Achilles was known as a fierce warrior, but the story of his love for the Amazon Penthesilea is ...
The largest and most lavish tomb ever built in ancient Macedonia may have been designed to fill with sunlight on the winter ...
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What Was the Polis?
For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.
Inzoi, the first ever truly AI-powered life Sim is full of bugs, quirks, and, it turns out, the ancient Greek and Roman ...
A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.
During excavation of a well at a house in western Syria, a lucky discovery turned up an ancient mosaic — depicting the Greek ...
The social season is almost upon us, which means Ascot, Henley, Wimbledon and the rest. Or, as the Romans might have put it, ...
Human history is etched into the landscape at sites like Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Petra in Jordan, and Japan’s Himeji Castle, ...
Thomas Eakins’s “Swimming,” an acclaimed and scandalous picture, was displayed in the first lady’s hotel bedroom in November ...
In USA, Infeld recalled, “I arrived at Princeton in September 1936. Five months later our collaboration with Einstein began ...
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s looted Prakhon Chai hoard.