The goddess of flowers, Chloris, created a new flower by breathing life into a woodland nymph who...
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The baroque cult of curiosities among royals, nobles, and wealthy merchants. By Dr. Joanna PageProfessor of Latin...
Tracing the relationship back to the very first gun on American shores is an inexact genealogical pursuit....
In medieval Europe, whaling was an important economic activity, boosting coastal centers and villages. It reduced after...
Skepticism about religion became a strong player in the philosophical playground. The Origins We, philosophers, tend to...
Traditional water dams have been built since prehistoric times. By Dr. Andreas N. AngelakisSchool of History and...
A quattrocento marvel, at once a story of lost love and a fever dream of antiquity. This...
Animal domestication is a coevolutionary process in which a population responds to selective pressure while adapting to a novel niche that included...
The widespread influence of the idea of ancient Rome on political rhetoric. By Dr. Cosimo CascioneProfessor of...
The introduction of gin to England was a delirious and deleterious affair, as tipplers reported a range...
Several ancient Greeks contributed significantly to the development of physics. Foundations of Physics: Thales and Euclid Traditionally,...
Remains of many Roman hypocausts have survived throughout Europe. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction A hypocaust...
People selectively perceive inequality from among all its manifold forms. By Dr. Simon SzreterProfessor of History and...
Tracing significant semantic changes of civic vocabulary. By Dr. Els RoseProfessor of Humanities and ClassicsUtrecht University A...
Knowledge is power is a quotation that has been run into the ground behind a whole host...
“Just because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” By Dr. Deborah...
People have always pushed back against the social expectations that constrain them. Femininity The Physical Education of...
Knowledge circulation and information technologies in 17th-century Russia. By Dr. Clare Griffin1Assistant Professor, Department of HistoryAssistant Professor,...
In some ways, this is a history of an intellectual cul-de-sac. By Dr. Dina GusejnovaAssociate Professor, Department...
Portraits were a major element of Roman material culture. By Dr. Austen Leigh LaRoccaProfessor of Art HistoryUniversity...
His rage at opponents and appetite for vengeance appear to have sharpened. By Dr. Rachel HadasProfessor of...
Although the empirical approach today dominates science, such was not always the case. By Dr. Daniel G....
‘Beriyth’ meant a promise or a pledge. By Dr. Rebecca DenovaEmeritus Professor of Early ChristianityUniversity of Pittsburgh...
Today’s political climate and the urgency of issues like climate change, a weak global economy and a...
The Wycliffite Bible may have been an open source project that elicited the first expression of hacker...
An udderly fascinating chronicle of milk. By Daniel FernandezEditorial InternSmithsonian Magazine On May 8, 1858, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated...
When individuals were depicted, it was most often through an antisemitic lens. By Dr. Wolf GrunerProfessor of...
Very few records survive of Romulus’s brief 10-month reign. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Romulus...
An informed understanding of The Federalist’s references to ancient Rome. By Louis J. Sirico, Jr., J.D.1Professor of...
Exploring the experience of poor, small-scale agriculturalists in ancient Rome. By Dr. Kim BowesProfessor of Classical StudiesUniversity...