28 month ago
plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on Peitho, goddess of persuasion - Funny goddess. Not enormously popular. Didn't get out much. Occasionally confused with Aphrodite.
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31 month ago
plasticbag : The Beazley dictionary of Classical gods, cities and things - Lovely resource, with pictures and all kinds of neat stuff. Looks a bit crappy, but probably pretty easy for search engines to parse...
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34 month ago
Linkorama : The Management Scholars of Ancient Greece - Why show up to vote or embrace a social cause when cyncism can be raised to an art form (and remember Socrates didn't even have a blog, much less a talk show)? And why wait for the debilitating ravages of retirement, as your artificial knee begins to buck
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35 month ago
plasticbag : The Twelve Olympians on Flickr - This is a nice piece of work - the twelve Olympian gods of Greek mythology - as represented in Lego...
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44 month ago
plasticbag : NASA science uncovers texts of Trojan Wars, early Gospel - More on the use of multispectral imaging to read the hoard of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus
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plasticbag : Slightly implausible Greeks get hot under the collar at the suggestion that Alexander the Great shagged the odd bloke - Drives me mad this stuff - firstly because it's not always been the case that a man who porks another man should be considered unmanly (sometimes quite the opposite) and because Alexander's relationships with men were clearly unusually passionate.
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