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2008-11-04 Slaves: Hello, the topic is really broad, but I think the answer is rather simple and applies to most cases that happened in the past: all the populations that were enslaved and, often, transferred to far away...
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2008-08-13 Plutarch: Hello, I guess those books are a collection of different books and essays by Plutarch: "Parallel Lives" is a series of biographies of ancient men organized in tandem (one Roman and one Greek), to compare...
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2008-05-16 roman senate: Hello, the Roman Senate continued to exist after the end of the Empire in 476: even though it lost much of its importance after the capital was moved to Constantinople, the Senate was never abolished...
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2008-02-25 second wanderings of Odysseus: Hello, in the eleventh book of the Odissey, Odysseus meets Tiresias (the most famous, mythological seer of the Greek world) in Ades (the Underworld); Tiresias tells Odysseus that he will not stay at home...
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2008-01-26 swastika: Hello, the swastika is a very ancient symbol worldwide, representing the sun or the swirling winds, which unfortunately was taken by the Nazi as their flag and thus doomed forever. Before the second...
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