February 2012
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In Ancient Greece, the common slang for blow job was ‘playing the flute’
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300+ Followers!
Wow guys! The blog has now reached over 300 followers- thank you so much:)
Please ask if you have any particular requests, as I’d love to know what kind of things you guys would want to see more of:)
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“Men are only agreed to a certain extent about justice, and then they begin to...”
– Socrates.
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Clothing and fashion in Roman Britain
“The most common materials used for the production of clothes in Roman Britain were wool and linen. Cloth and leather are rarely preserved in the archaeological record, except in wet conditions. However, some textile and leather remains have revealed the sophisticated nature of clothing and shoe production in the Roman period.
The Roman toga could be worn by every free-born citizen. Woven...
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“And here Aeneas saw Deiphobus, son of Priam, his whole body mangled and his face...”
– Book 6, The Aeneid.
I think Virgil really creates a vivid, gruesome image here.
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“As bees on a cloudless summer day
That settle upon wildflowers in a field
And...”
– Book 6, The Aeneid. Aeneas ventures to the Underworld.
“Running in a dream, you can’t catch up,
You can’t catch up and you can’t get...”
– Iliad (via mynameisknoop)
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Cicero
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
– Seneca (via curiousdisneydreamer)
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do...”
– Seneca (via eloquentandhonest)
“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is...”
– The Trial and Death of Socrates (via beautifulsmile)
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“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings of this world have philosophy, cities...”
– Socrates, The Republic.
“ἄλλο αὖ τοῦτο εἶδος ἐλέγχου ἐστίν, ἐπειδάν τίς τι εἴπῃ, καταγελᾶν, ἐλέγχειν δὲ...”
– Oh, is this another form of refutation? Laughing whenever someone says something, instead of refuting it? - Socrates, Gorgias (via minunthadia)
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“He who has suffered is willing to talk to his fellow-sufferers only, as they...”
– Alcibiades, The Symposium
Ancient Greek Pills Found in Greek Shipwreck →
In 130 BC, a ship fashioned from the wood of walnut trees, bulging with medicines and Syrian glassware, sank off the coast of Tuscany, Italy. Archaeologists found its precious load 20 years ago and now, for the first time, archaeobotanists have been able to examine and analyse pills that were prepared by the physicians of ancient Greece.
DNA analyses show that each millennia-old tablet is a...
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Cicero described in his On Moral Duties that trades that could be regarded as respectable were mostly that of fishermen, butchers, perfumers and ballet-dancers, for they required a ‘greater skill’ which benefited the community (in terms of medicine, architecture etc.), but he particularly praised agriculture as it was the most productive, pleasant, and worthy of trades.
He described...
