The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to...
Ancient
The Romans resolved civil disputes by recourse to litigation based on law. Abstract This is a broad...
The grandeur that was Rome was actually the grandeur of Roman Law. I In ancient Greece or,...
To this day we say: “a man who is worth his salt.” In ancient Rome, this was...
It was a full scale political revolution carried out by less advantaged Romans that redefined the Roman...
He set the stage for Julius Caesar to later seize political power through force and end Republican...
Cincinnatus was a conservative opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into...
The Law, not the State, was the citadel of Roman sovereignty. I Others shall beat out the...
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Hathor was a multifaceted goddess, appealed to for a wide variety of needs, who provided many of...
The author of Enuma Elish drew on the earlier Sumerian goddesses, Nammu and Inanna, to create the...
Economic crisis, impoverishment, and elite conflict led Athens to be managed by individual rulers, the last tyrants...
Cassander embarked on an ambitious plan to control the region and solidify his power in Macedonia. Cassander’s...
There is growing evidence that our closest extinct human relative wasn’t as dumb as scientists had long...
The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil-service systems elsewhere. Introduction The...
Among the earliest inventions were the abacus, the “shadow clock,” and the first flying machines. Introduction The...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
It was built in five constructional stages spanning a period from around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Stonehenge...
In 63 B.C.E. Pompey was invited to settle a dispute between two Maccabeans. Thus came the Romans....
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...
Antony was popular as a tribune and sought vengeance for Caesar before joining Cleopatra and falling out...
His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of...
The Aeneid was written to praise Augustus by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Introduction...
The Hellenistic world which had had no monarch for half a decade after Alexander suddenly had a...
The text of the inscription is a statement by Darius I of Persia, written three times in...
The Hittite civilization was one of the cradles of human culture. Introduction “Hittites” is the conventional English-language...
Sentenced to death but acquitted in a public trial based upon his father’s appeal. The Story According...
The early Achaemenid kings may or may not have been adherents of Zoroastrianism but that religion would...
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. Introduction In the increasingly urbanized...