The ancients ate mountains of bread and cheese, but you’d never know from today’s version of the Mediterranean diet.
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Christopher Nolan turns Homer’s legendary warrior into a case study of moral injury, a condition that often appears in war veterans who struggle to forgive themselves.
Hollywood has a habit of rendering complex literary heroes into one-dimensional figures. Nolan’s The Odyssey dodges this trap.
Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and contentious – today.
While pain may be universal, our experience of it is anything but.
The Theban Sacred Band – made up of ‘lovers and their loves’ came to be known for their strength, discipline, and ferocity.
What did Thucydides really say on this? And what’s Athens and Sparta got to do with the current state of US-China relations?
Some wondered, centuries ahead of their time, if lightning had something to do with air and clouds.
Some of the ancients were obsessed with living beyond 100. Here’s how they thought they could do it.
Historically, what made eclipses politically dangerous was the speculation often attached to them.
From ancient Greek myths to Scripture and papal teachings, Christianity has long wrestled with hope.
Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote that ‘There are two liquids that are especially agreeable to the human body: wine inside and oil outside.’
They worried deeply about the impact climate change would have on us as individuals, and on broader society.
Beach vacations became popular only around the 19th-20th centuries – as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy.
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Greek History, The University of Queensland
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