Q is dated to anywhere from the 30s to the 60s, but is often assumed to contain a lot of oral tradition dating to the time of Jesus. Because the three Synoptic Gospels supposedly preserve this older source, agree on so much, and are relatively down-to-earth compared to John’s very ...
Clarke, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the "Foundation" series, the first three books of which won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. His other major series are the "...
History is very important and I cannot overstate that. In our times of early writing we had men, yes mostly men, that would record the events of the time that gives us a clear image of what happened, the people of the time, and the culture.
Traditionally, Christmas has been celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ, even though many educated people know that a variety of factors indicate that He was not actually born at that time. How did the excitement around December 25th originate, then? Was it a pagan festival later co-opted...
They suggest more the stripped-down brick and concrete ruins of modern Rome than what Rome looked like during the heyday of Western Empire. At the same time, I thought Fellini conveyed an enormously powerful impression of the life of the Roman empire, one which might not have been possible ...
Diodorus Siculus calculated that his histories (Bibliotheke) spanned 1138 years, from before the Trojan War to his own lifetime during the late Roman Republic. 15 of his 40 books on universal history are extant and fragments remain of the rest. He has, until recently, been criticized for ha...
The indiction was a cycle of 15 years originally based on the interval between imperial tax assessments but during the Middle Ages always reckoned from the accession of Constantine, in 312. Years were given according to their place in the cycle of 15, the number of the indiction itself being...
As the supposed site where Jesus Christ died, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has a huge spiritual significance for Christians. However, not only ...
This is, technically, true, but only due to a modern conflating of the term "bathing" to mean "washing" in any form. "To bathe" should only really be used in the strict Classical sense of visiting a bath house. Broadly speaking these did drop out of use during the medieval period ...