Why did Leonidas only take 300? Herodotus tells us that Leonidas, in line with the prophecy, was convinced he was going to certain death since his forces were not adequate for a victory, and so he selected only Spartans with living sons. Who are the disfigured people in 300? Ephialtes is...
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there is no sense that you’re entering a flash point of controversy. Though some 450,000 people live in the town and its surrounding neighborhoods, Piraeus has the feel of a suburb that has seen better days. At lunchtime, the plastic tables at the café on the pier...
Arkansas State Motto declares: “The People Rule.” America's constitutional republic was an unprecedented experiment. President Theodore Roosevelt stated in 1903: "In NO other place and at NO other time has the experiment of governmen...
Today, people with Pontic Greek descent who live in Greece or in the diaspora may describe their ethnicity as Pontic Greek (Pontioi), even Romaioi, or simply as Greek or just take the nationality of the country in which they currently live, e.g. Australian, Greek Australian or Pontic Gree...
The most easterly of two stations to carry the word Aldgate, both of which are named after an ancient gateway into the City. But how did Aldgate get its name? The short answer is 'nobody knows'. The long answer is 'Perhaps it's simply the old gate into the city, or maybe it's ...
In western Christian society we are accustomed to the concepts of human rights and guaranteed liberties. This modern bias makes it difficult for us to relate to cultures which not only did not protect freedom of speech or religion, but saw nonconformity in these areas as undesirable – disloyalt...
emerge, the creditors were called big men, absorbing the land of their debtors. If rulers would have let that happen, they would have done what oligarchies did in classical Greece and Rome. They would have used their money to take their labor that was working for them and overthrown the ...
while microdosing was “amazing”. “It was almost like being your own therapist.” Even when she didn’t microdose for weeks, her mood was “extremely stable”. “If I did have a breakdown, it lasted like five minutes and I was done. Before, it would be two or three days in bed....