For the Ancient Greeks, beards signaled age, status, and virtue, turning these into symbols of masculinity, honor, and social ...
From Homer to Philostratus, Ancient Greek sources describe Pygmies as dwarves at the world’s edge, fighting cranes and living ...
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Ancient Greeks built a 'first computer' that still stumps us
More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...
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2,000 years ago, Greeks built a machine like the first computer
More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...
The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from the ...
This draft was far from perfect: The end, his account of the Peloponnesian War, was relatively polished; but as one moved towards the beginning, to his descriptions of the ways of the Greeks and the ...
Delos's 2,000-year-old buildings offer insight into the Hellenistic and Roman periods. A brief boat ride from the thrumming nightclubs of Mykonos lies the UNESCO heritage site of Delos, one of the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hellas: A Lyrical Drama, composed soon after the Greek war of independence broke out in 1821, is not generally ...
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