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87History of Sandals
Living in a tropical country makes me more prefer wearing sandals. It's more comfortable, light, and cool. I used to wear stylish sandals for outdoor activities and rubber sandals when I'm home. Most tropical people only wear shoes for formal...
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76Women of History: Aspasia
Aspasia of Miletus was the most famous woman of her day, consort to the leading man in Athens and renowned in her own right for her intelligence, wit, and beauty.
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75The Faces of Evil in Ancient Greek Tragedy, and in Thucydides's the Peloponnesian War
The Greek worldview about evil suggests that there exists no straightforward moral order in the world. All human acts are subject to dramatic reversal, deformation, and there are no guarantees that a person's moral sincerity will not turn out to be destructive. No matter if you blame the Gods for the evils of the world in the vein of Sophocles and the Greek tragedians or you blame this lack of a moral order in the cosmos as Thucydides did, you will notice a constant...
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89HISTORY OF COSTUME AND STYLE I - Stone Age
Approximately 20 000 years ago the only way for the human race to survive was to hunt, fish and to gather berries, nuts and roots. They had yet to develop the ability to keep cattle and plant crops. They...
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69Symposiums can be fun!
Greek sex in the ancient world gives us our modern word "Symposium". Sexual intercourse with prostitutes was just one of the fun offerings at these drinking parties in ancient Greece.
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84How to dress like greek women in ancient Greece
The fashion of ancient Greek woman was simple though nice. More draped then dress, she wore no more then a piece of fabric,wrapped around her body.
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83Greek Regions
The Country of Greece has 10 Traditional Subnational Divisions, 54 Prefectures, 13 Peripheries, and 3 Super-Prefectures (Athens-Piraeus, Drama-Kavala-Xanthi, and Rhodope-Evros). Prefectures are a second-degree organization of local self-government...
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82Greek Philosopher: Plotinus
Roman philosopher of the Neoplatonic school, born in Asyut, Egypt. Plotinus lived from 205 to 270 AD in Alexandria. He studied with the Alexandrian philosopher Ammonius Saccas at Alexandria for a period of...
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84Jewelry History-Jewelry Treasures of the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean
A brief view of jewelry in the ancient Mediterranean world, with information on the gold jewelry of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Etruscans,and Byzantines. Find out about the gem materials used and the styles created. Includes information on the looting of the Baghdad Museum.
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