What was the role of rhetoric in all of their different courts and procedures? By O.E. Tellegen...
Ancient
The plutocracy of Carthage was only too willing to pick a quarrel with Rome. The Semitic colony...
When nobles and wealthy members of communities reigned supreme. Introduction Oligarchy is a form of government in...
The ‘Hippocratic’ four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals, and home remedies. The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines,...
Examining the census statistics left by official records. It has been customary for historians to accept, though...
One of the earliest documented censuses was taken in 500-499 B.C.E. by the Persian Empire’s military for...
People felt overwhelmed as it seems as though they believed that what had happened to others elsewhere...
The first definitive outbreak of plague was the Plague of Justinian as recorded by Procopius which killed...
Ancient Egypt was in many ways as intriguing and distant to the ancient Romans as ancient Rome...
Banquets were likely used as an opportunity for rulers to spread a little happiness amongst those they...
Hannibal continued to fight for the people of Carthage, in spite of the poor treatment he received....
Thirty of the Achaeans’ best warriors hid in the Trojan horse’s womb and two spies in its...
The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of...
The spirits and gods were believed to make their presence known through disease. Introduction When people fall...
The parasites found within the 2,000-year-old-feces smeared on bamboo suggest more than commodities made the trip. By...
Stomach ulcers, herpes, ringworm and other tropical diseases may have all contributed to the Neanderthal demise. By...
Since the art of writing was discovered, nearly every form of writing material has been used. By...
The Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that...
Considering their limited role in actual society there is a surprisingly strong cast of female characters in...
Women weren’t just traditional stay at home wives, but they contributed to society and sometimes even in...
Propaganda tactics are timeless. While the game has moved on since the time of Augustus, the rules...
Idle gossip or rumor is personified by the Ancient poets. At the heart of the greatest works...
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It was not until the Persian Invasion of 525 BCE that a cash economy was instituted in...
Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The Hippocratic philosophy on health care provision applied standards and ethical rules that are still valid today....
The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from the mid-5th century BCE....
One of the earliest dateable events in Athenian history is the creation of the Draconian law code,...
There have been three great world pandemics of bubonic plague recorded, in 541, 1347, and 1894 CE....
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....