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What if writing made us dumber, not smarter?

“I once heard that in Naucratis, a city in Egypt, there lived an ancient god whose sacred bird is the ibis. His name was Theuth — the Egyptian equivalent of Hermes Trismegistus. He was the first to invent numbers and calculation, geometry…

11 April, 2025

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Nearchus: A Journey into the Unknown

Have you ever imagined Greeks fighting Sasquatches? A fleet in battle formations against giant whales? Towns made of bones? Fish people and Sun-loving cults coming in contact with the Hellenistic era explorers? Nearchus: A Journey into the Unknown. You recently asked for…

13 June, 2024

HEALTH·HISTORY

Leaders as healers: Ancient Greek ideas on the health of the body politic

In the current health crisis, we might ask what needs to be cured more urgently: the virus itself or people’s poor sense of moderation. We have seen shocking footage of panicked citizens fighting over the last pack of toilet tissue, our politicians’…

3 April, 2020

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Thucydides and the plague of Athens – what it can teach us now

The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly disease. Words like “epidemic” and “pandemic” (and “panic”!) have become part of our daily discourse. These words are Greek in origin, and they point…

23 March, 2020

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Pytheas of Massalia: The first Greek to reach Britain and the Arctic

Pytheas of Massalia, a geographer from the Greek colony of Massalia, the modern-day city of Marseille in southern France, was the first-ever Mediterranean person to reach and explore not only Great Britain but as far north as the Arctic Circle. The intrepid…

30 November, 2019

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Four Ancient Greek Mysteries Which Spark Controversy To This Day

Ancient Greece is known across the globe for its vast contributions to the very foundations of our modern world. Western ideals which we sometimes take for granted, such as Democratic rule, as well as what we see today as basic human rights,…

4 November, 2019

HISTORY·SCIENCE

Before Cranes, Ancient Greeks may have used lifting machine 150 Years earlier than previously believed

How did the ancient Greeks construct their many massive temples and other buildings – one heavy block at a time – without the use of modern advanced machinery? Cranes first appeared in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago, however, new research suggests…

11 September, 2019

ART·HISTORY

What’s so special about South Italian vase painting?

For nearly 300 years, Greek cities along the coast of southern Italy and Sicily imported their pottery from Corinth and Athens. By the late fifth century, however, they began producing their own vessels. By the end of the fifth century BCE the…

25 June, 2019

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Hidden women of power: The Priestess Pythia at the Delphic Oracle

In a time when the women were offered few opportunities, the role of the Pythia stands out. The priestess was at the centre of the ancient world and the most important figure in one of the most powerful religious institutions of the…

28 March, 2019

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What if writing made us dumber, not smarter?

Nearchus: A Journey into the Unknown

Leaders as healers: Ancient Greek ideas on the health of the body politic

Thucydides and the plague of Athens – what it can teach us now

Pytheas of Massalia: The first Greek to reach Britain and the Arctic

Four Ancient Greek Mysteries Which Spark Controversy To This Day

Before Cranes, Ancient Greeks may have used lifting machine 150 Years earlier than previously believed

What’s so special about South Italian vase painting?

Hidden women of power: The Priestess Pythia at the Delphic Oracle

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