Episode 5: In which Marc Antony and Cleopatra debate their relationship, and whether or not Echo makes a good relationship counselor. This episode of Real Housewives of Hades (a Mt. Olympus spin-off) brought to you by the latest archaeological news on SmithsonianMagazine.com – and by CLAS-C 387 Roman History. Blast from the Past: Here in Classical Studies …
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You’ve probably heard the axiom “Never meet your heroes.” In Ancient Greece, the phrase was closer to “Never meet your heroes, because they will straight up get you killed, if they don’t casually kill you themselves.” Although Ancient Greek gave the world the word “hero,” their definition of the word was pretty far from our …
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Benjamin Franklin once said “[I]n this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Since our program already had a course on ancient death, we were inspired to add a course about ancient taxes…and all other things money related in Ancient Greece and Rome. And there’s a lot of things money …
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Have you ever wondered what the lives of women were like in the ancient world? Mythology is full of extraordinary women, and, statistically, 50% of every human who lived in ancient times was a woman. Yet finding ancient women can be difficult, given that they were excluded from many of the activities, big and small, …
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