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The rise of holistic health in the modern day has seen many of these ancient wellness techniques become more popular than ...
“Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by Euripides. She discovered that play when she was studying Greek during the eighth grade, she went on to earn a ...
You might call Ivy Pochoda the bard of bad women, an auteur of feminine fierceness. For proof, look no further than the ...
Engineers believe Hadrian’s Aqueduct, which was constructed in the second century, can help the city conserve dwindling water ...
Plato, who taught in the fourth century BCE, argued that each person has an intuitive capacity to recognize the truth. He called this the highest form of understanding: “noesis .” Noesis enables ...
We will restore the value of liberal education if we are willing to fight for it. It’s not an easy battle, but it’s also an ...
A Neolithic-era pit unearthed in Pieria in Northern Greece sheds light on the eating habits of early inhabitants.
Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and ...
New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...
Rhapsodes were the master storytellers of Ancient Greece who memorized and performed thousands of lines of Homer's works.
These days when you see people exercising, they're usually also listening to music, whether they're at the gym, or out ...