Greece – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:30:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Greece – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Taking the Dust Covers Off Ancient Greek and Roman Naked Statues https://brewminate.com/taking-the-dust-covers-off-ancient-greek-and-roman-naked-statues/ Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:30:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=190652 Ancient Greek and Roman bodies are often seen as flawless – cast in buff bronze and white marble.

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]]> Power and Profit: Solon in Ancient Greece and the Eternal Politics of Elitist Advantage https://brewminate.com/power-and-profit-solon-in-ancient-greece-and-the-eternal-politics-of-elitist-advantage/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:25:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265838 Contemporary societies, equipped with vastly more sophisticated systems of governance, continue to wrestle with the same moral arithmetic.

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]]> The Tomb of the Diver and Drinking Games in Ancient Greece https://brewminate.com/the-tomb-of-the-diver-and-drinking-games-in-ancient-greece/ Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:37:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=240090 Symposia were attended by wealthy men who talked and listened to music as they reclined on couches and

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]]> Swords Turned Inward: The Tyranny of Hippias and Betrayal in Ancient Athens https://brewminate.com/swords-turned-inward-the-tyranny-of-hippias-and-betrayal-in-ancient-athens/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:07:15 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=264704 The tyrant’s descent from ruler to exile followed a logic as ancient as power itself. In seeking to

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]]> Demythologizing the Past: Thucydides and the Necessity of Accurate Historical Revision https://brewminate.com/demythologizing-the-past-thucydides-and-the-necessity-of-accurate-historical-revision/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:04:08 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=264034 The act of rewriting history is as old as history itself. To revise is not inherently to distort;

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]]> Civic Mourning: The Battle of Marathon in the Funerary Speeches of Ancient Greece https://brewminate.com/civic-mourning-the-battle-of-marathon-in-the-funerary-speeches-of-ancient-greece/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:14:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=209675 The funeral speech offers the audience a model to be imitated and thus contributes to the timeless epainos

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]]> War, Warriors, and Cultural Impact in the Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece https://brewminate.com/war-warriors-and-cultural-impact-in-the-art-and-architecture-of-ancient-greece/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:13:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=192472 Gaining a deeper understanding of the goals and meanings of the idealized art of the Classical Greek period.

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]]> Hellas: A History of Movement and Life in the Melting Pot of Ancient Greece https://brewminate.com/hellas-a-history-of-movement-and-life-in-the-melting-pot-of-ancient-greece/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:04:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=166483 No matter where people settled in Greece, they were rarely more than 50 miles from the sea. Geology

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]]> The Enduring Mystery of the Tomb of Alexander the Great https://brewminate.com/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-tomb-of-alexander-the-great/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:42:26 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=224517 Over one hundred official attempts have been made to try to identify the site of Alexander’s tomb. Introduction

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