How odysseus is a hero essaysA hero to most would be someone who has courage and has risked or sacrificed his life for others. To others a person that has discovered or achieved something outstanding was considered a hero as well. In ancient Greece a her
During Greece's recent financial crisis, the sector faced challenges that forced it to look beyond its borders to survive. Now, about 50 percent of Greece's exportable marble goes to China, with the rate reaching 80 percent when it comes to raw unprocessed marble. "We've been exporting Gr...
When making the decision about precisely where to amputate, the surgeon needs to be able to evaluate which body tissues have the best chance to survive. One way to make this call is to measure the blood supply to the area. For this purpose, a variety of sophisticated techniques can be use...
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Once we learn how to drive, we usually don’t forget it. The acquired skills stay with us. Analogously, several (though not all) ancient Stoics thought that once acquired, virtue cannot be lost. And yet, we can make sense of those cases in which we do lose it: if we suffer an inju...
It also highlights how people, at least in this particular town, had the resilience and technology to survive the upheavals triggered by climate changes that brought many ancient civilizations to their knees at the end of the...
Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, for example, may have had a villa in the nearby town of Stabiae in addition to his home in Formia. If you owned another home outside of the Pompeii area, it would have been safer to stay there. You would be more likely to survive if you didn't...
It all started with the Ancient Greeks. There are very few surviving examples of written music from Ancient Greece. But we do know that the Greeks were crucial in setting the groundwork for music theory. Pythagoras, who lived from around 570 to 500 BC, was among the Greek theorists to exp...
They are making sense of archives too vast for humans to read, filling in missing and unreadable characters and decoding rare and lost languages of which hardly any traces survive. Scrolls scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius can’t be opened without damaging them.Credit: EduceLab, ...
Pay for a Hotel in Chania without using it! During the high season in Greece, and especially in July and August, it is likely that you won't find ferry tickets to popular destinations, such as Chania if you don't book them in advance. So, don't make the mistake of booking your hot...