The Greeks seemed to focus more on the two typical genders, which are male and female. Some Greek gods seemed to play into certain gender roles, but others portrayed traits of the opposite sex. In this paper, I will be analysing the possibility that the Greeks believed the female and male...
Female desire was considered practically inexhaustible, while also lacking the possession of the logical means of men to curtail their desires, meaning that left unchecked the female sex is destined to a life of destructive excess. Indeed, Aristotle describes the difference in control of natural impu...
We identify six new positive cases of Down syndrome, two genetically female and four genetically male. As expected, the positive cases for Down syndrome showed an approximately 1.5-fold higher proportion of reads mapping to chromosome 21 (range: 1.44–1.52) when compared to the mean proportion fo...
While Queen Boudica is a popular figure in England, Queen Cartimandua is a lesser-known female ruler from the same era. Cartimandua was the Queen of the Brigantes, the largest tribe in Britain territorially. Unlike other English rulers who were revolting against the Romans, Cartimandua and ...
These masks came in both female and male variations, featuring expressions that were either solemn or lighthearted. Additionally, the masks were designed to amplify the actors' voices.One of the renowned Greek playwrights was Aristophanes, known for crafting a multitude of plays, including The ...
complete translation into English of this unique work on dream interpretation, coming to us from an early "professional" of this ancient art. Moreover the translation has been enriched by Professor White's in depth commentary on the text and on the vast Greek and Roman culture ofArtemidorus'...
Cleopatra VII could abandon any thought she might have had of adopting the role of a female king and could develop instead a powerful new identity as a semi-divine mother: an identity that had the huge advantage of being instantly recognisable to both her Egyptian and her Greek subjects," wr...
This is the reason for the female attire of the galloi. Enough of Kombabos and his story: in the course of my story I will make mention the galloi, their castration, the methods employed to effect it, their burial rites, and the reasons why they do not en...
Unlike Greek gods, the Devas (Hindu gods) never feared the Manavas (humans) would overthrow them. Gods who came in chariots from the sky take us to Ancient Alien Theory. All of these gods were aliens who created realities in which they came to Earth to experience and learn. ...
(in ca. 392 CE) is our Ammianus Marcellinus, then it seems clear that our Ammianus Marcellinus was a Greek from Antioch in Syria who later went on to spend further time at Rome itself (on all of this see Matthews 1989). While a ...