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The elite ancient Greek fighting force made up entirely of gay couples
Washington Post· 5 days agoThe Battle of Tegyra in 375 B.C. proved that the legendary Spartan army could be defeated. A...
How ancient people understood cancer thousands of years ago
Yahoo News UK· 7 days agoA skull from 4,000 years ago shows that ancient Egyptians may have tried to treat cancer with...
The best poetry books of 2024 so far
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoThere has been so much recent poetry inspired by ancient Greece that I’ve wondered whether there’s anything left to say about the myths at all. Alice...
The secret to great salad dressings
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMy first salad dressings were overseen by my mother and made from sunflower oil, wine vinegar, Dijon mustard and seasoning. We put everything in a jam...
Review: GODZ at The Vault @ Fool's Paradise
Broadway World· 22 hours agoJudging from the content warnings alone, you can tell that you are in for a show with GODZ - audience interaction, strong language, nudity, haze/smoke...
What happens on the British Museum’s £950 private tour
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt would be an exaggeration to say that, in the summer daylight of 8.55am, Great Russell Street is...
Blade Runner soundtrack at 30: how Vangelis used electronic music to explore what it means to be...
The Conversation· 1 day agoIt would go on to become emblematic of his skills, with only a handful of soundtracks reaching a similar level of cult status. Prior to this, sci-fi film scores tended to be
The thousand-year-old mystery of the giant snake found in drawings across the world
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAs well as the 43-metre serpent, they include two 10-metre-tall human-like figures (which could be...
Southern Europe Sees Its Energy Advantage — And Takes It
Forbes· 2 days agoFor example, in order to join the European central currency, the Euro, in 2001, Greece’s external...
Livelier Than the Living | Catherine Nicholson
New York Review of Books· 7 days ago“I daily listen to your words with more attention than one would believe, and perhaps I shall not be thought impertinent in wishing to be heard by you,”...
