The "triple worship" of the Muses, Wine and Love, ascribed to him as his religion in an old Greek epigram (Anthol. iii. 25, 51), may have been as purely professional in the two last cases as in the first, and his private character on such points was probably neither much better nor...
It is interesting to note that medicine was one of the few professions that were open to women in the Roman Empire. Female doctors, ormedicae, would also have been mainly of Greek origin, and either working with male doctors, or as midwives specializing in childbirth and women’s diseases ...
Of course, I knew about ancient Greek theatres, having visited several in my travels over the years. But what about Roman theatres? Did the Romans simply re-use Greek odea? Did the Romans build their own theatres and, if so, how did they differ from those built by the Greeks? In this...
Their cultural heritage is passed down through generations, often in the form of traditions, festivals, and customs. For example, the Lantern Festival in Luoyang and the Dragon Boat Festival in Xi'an are celebrations that have been passed down for centuries and contin...
Greek Theatre: Greek theatre was characterized by two genres of musical theatre: tragedies and comedies. These plays were held as part religious festivals which worshipped the gods and featured extravagant rituals, processions and celebrations. The costumes and masks worn by the actors in Greek thea...
Being on the Aventine it was in fact outside the earliest city boundaries. Pliny (7.57) describes the Aventine temple as being typically Greek in style, possibly also driven by persistent pleb cultural connections with Magna Graecia. Vitruvius recommended Libera temples as following an ionic styl...
(apart from being blacksmiths) they are both imagined as being somehow deformed or disabled. In Weland’s case, he is hamstrung by his captors, and in the case of the Greek god, he is said variously to have been born lame, or is injured when he is thrown down from Olympos by Zeus,...
S2E12 A Solstice Carol Xena saves a Scrooge and Gabby saves US from a trip to the glue factory! MEANWHILE Hayley & Justine research Solstice & Equinox celebrations from around the world, ancient Greek orphan life, and a brief history of Dickens' A Christmas Carol! S2E11 Ten Little Warlords...
After conquering Iran, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Seleucids, tried to promote their culture and beliefs in this land. But Iranians in that period insisted on preserving their ancient Iranian religions, beliefs, and traditions. In the end, Greek culture did not have much influen...
Legend has it that Heracles (the Roman Hercules), son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene, founded the Games, which by the end of the 6th century BC had become the most famous of all Greek sporting festivals. Contestants came from a dozen or more Greek cities, and by the 5th century...