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The ancient Greeks associated the entrance to Hades with a real-life location in ancient Greece. Where was this place?
Did you know that in ancient Greece, dogs were seen as protectors in both life and death? The three-headed dog Cerberus was ...
Then, at the fashionable Dogpound gym, clients aspire to embody the visceral strength and unstoppable tenacity of Greek figures like the Titans or Cerberus, the mythical guard dog. The entire hardcore ...
As my teaching and writing careers end in the next few weeks, I’m trying to suppress a feeling of quiet despair.
Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...
The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...
The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...
Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...
In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...
Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.
China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...