Fall in love Roman-style by playing board games
For ancient Romans, many of the gestures now associated with Valentine’s Day would be unfamiliar, if not completely puzzling. Love and desire were not confined to a single day, nor...Read More >
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Does BBC Civilisations gets its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in
In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and Japan’s Edo Samurais. The show tells these stories through a...Read More >
Aphrodite signified more than beauty – five other realms in which the Greek goddess also reigned
For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In an overarching way, she was the goddess of consensus, as in any interaction between consenting...Read More >
