•Euthanasia: It appears that ritual euthanasia was practiced by numerous ancient cultures. The Phoenicians were known to poison their older individuals. Both the Spartans and the Romans would leave children that they deemed disabled out to die in the elements. Also, ancient Indian cultures were ...
Brown pointed to the candidates’ first moments on stage, citing Trump’s reluctance to shake his Democratic opponent: “[Kamala Harris] walked on more quickly than him and was trying to look him in the eye. He wouldn’t return that look.” Impressively, Harris wasn’t deterred and even ...
In his commentary on the ontological characteristics of the subject in the digital age, the Korean born German theoretician Byung-chul Han writes in his essay on the culture of the “outraged” which is being produced under the conditions of complete digitization: ...
Children south of the line are much more likely to attend Russell groupuniversitiesfor those that do go to University (and they often go to the North to study!), a house price cliff now runs along much of the line, and, on the voting map, the line still often separates red from blue...
Cicero praised Syrakousai and Akragas as foremost in wealth and beauty, finding there the essence of Hellenism that his fellow Romans admired. Nearly two millennia later, nostalgia for antiquity seized Goethe during his journey around the island; deeply affected by its ancient artistic heritage, he...
America, a time when most of us wonder if our civilization, like the Romans and the Pharaohs, is coming to an inevitable conclusion sooner rather than later.Everything has a beginning, middle and end, and where does American society look to you these days, reading the paper on Sunday ...
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The ancient Romans engraved graffiti on walls and monuments, examples of which also survive in Egypt. Prehistoric graffiti displayed phrases of love declarations, political rhetoric, and simple words of thought compared to today’s popular messages of social and political ideals. Modern History Modern...
A son of Prexaspes, a very honourable man, was made cupbearer to Cambyses; and so it was with the Greeks and Romans (h); and the poets not only make Ganymedes to be Jupiter’s cupbearer (i,but even Vulcan himself is put into this office (k). (g) Herodot. Thalia, sive, l. ...
Incidentally, a man by the name Erastus is mentioned in Paul’s letter to the Romans, written from Corinth. He sends his greetings to the Roman church and is identified as the oikonomos of the city (Rom 16:23). This is actually the only passage in the corpus Paulinum in which a (...