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The Byzantine attitude to trade and industry is perhaps easier to understand today, when state control is once again accepted as inevitable if not wholly desirable, than would have been the case during any intervening period in history. Continue reading “Trade and Economics in the Eastern Roman Empire”
If we think simply of Mythology, it would justifiably seem as something useless and unnecessary, and unworthy of any attention and curiosity, valuable only for talk-games and dissertations. Continue reading “Greek Mythology: What are its divisions and the reasons it should be studied”
Exercises that aimed at maintaining and promoting health are found in the Byzantine literature under the terms physiotherapeutic and training gymnasiums. Continue reading “The therapeutic use of sport in the Eastern Roman Empire”
»Philanthropic social welfare and medical assistance institutions [in Byzantium] were in every respect perfect and nearly similar to present day institutions of this kind. In any case, they were the first fully equipped European hospitals« Continue reading “The Birth of the Hospital in the Eastern Roman Empire (‘Byzantium’) – Philanthropic social welfare in the Christian East”
In this post we present and analyze excerpts from Diodorus Siculus‘ “Library of History“, Book III (Loeb Classical Library), that refer to the Theogony-Mythology of the Atlantians. Continue reading “Diodorus Siculus: Theogony of the Atlantians – Possible Anthropological and Historical information”
Akousilaos from Argos, a hardly known ancient Greek writer, was a very important figure for ancient Greek History (Mythology included); he was one of the main ‘sources’ for most of the Historians and Mythographs that followed his time. Continue reading “How old is the Greek language and its writing?”
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