When Caesar famously tried to get a cat hair out of his mouth.
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Men Have Feared Women for Millennia. Just Look at the Monsters of Greek Mythology | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
A new collection of essays considers how the villainous women of classical antiquity, from Medusa to the Sphinx, resonate in contemporary Western society
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Caterday at Greek Ephesus Ruins
Modern day Turkey.
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Alexander Betrayed
The famous leader Alexander the Great lies on a bed and drinks a medicine that was prepared for him by Philip, his doctor, accused of...
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The 10th century chronicle of the violent, orgiastic funeral of a Viking chieftain
For the 10th century holy man and jurist Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the violent, orgiastic, drunken spectacle put on by mourning Vikings in Bulgaria must have...
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UncategorisedClean Monday, Time to Fly a Kite
Athens 1954. Athenians gather at Filopappou Hill, opposite the Acropolis on Kathara Deftera, or “Clean Monday”. Tomorrow is the beginning of Lent — the day...
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Hannibal's Boob Armour
Hannibal’s armor from the 2nd punic war.. Still preserved in a national museum in Tunisia, Carthage
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Roman Muscle
The marble torso of an Emperor in military regalia including Lorica Musculata (Cuirass) ca. 1st Century CE, so one of the Julio- Claudians. It stands...