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Usury: Banks Have No Money, They Lend Debt

grant czerepak wrote 3 days ago: The practice of charging interest on debts is called “usury”. The Ancient Greeks ex … more →

Tags: assets, banker's imagination, Banking, charging interest, Commodity Trading, consumption, Debt, Economics, evil practice

Moving Livius.org (14)1 comment

Jona Lendering wrote 4 days ago: Persian Gate If I say that Hecatompylos has moved to this URL, and if I add that Masjid-e Solaiman i … more →

Tags: Ancient History, Ancient Iran, ancient persia, ancient turkey, Iran, Livius.Org, Military History, storia antica, Alexander the Great

Common Errors (23): Sicilian Expedition

Jona Lendering wrote 4 days ago: Syracusan coin, showing a chariot with maritime symbols, commemorating Syracuse's victory over A … more →

Tags: Ancient History, common errors about Antiquity, Italy, Military History, Sicily Italy, storia antica, Alcibiades, Sicilian Expedition

Oedipus the King11 comments

Stefanie wrote 5 days ago: Over the weekend I managed to squeeze in some reading for fun. Having been lazy for so long in my re … more →

Tags: Books, Plays

More Plutarch

Jona Lendering wrote 5 days ago: Plutarch, bust from the museum of Delphi. Bill copies the translations of Plutarch’s Moralia f … more →

Tags: Ancient History, Greek Philosophy, LacusCurtius, Plutarch, Practical Politics

Common Errors (22): Pericles

Jona Lendering wrote 6 days ago: Fragment of the Athenian Tribute List, 425-424 BCE (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) In 431 BCE … more →

Tags: Ancient History, common errors about Antiquity, Military History, storia antica, Athenian Tribute Lists, Cleon, Peloponnesian War, PERICLES, Thucydides

Common Errors (16): Persepolis1 comment

Jona Lendering wrote 6 days ago: The Palace of Darius I the Great: not destroyed by fire In the first weeks of 330 BCE, Alexander the … more →

Tags: Ancient History, Ancient Iran, ancient persia, Architecture, common errors about Antiquity, Iran, Military History, Alexander the Great, Arson

Common Errors (15): White Sculpture

Jona Lendering wrote 6 days ago: Reconstruction of the colors of the Marcus Caelius Cenotaph (Xanten) The ancient Greeks were brillia … more →

Tags: Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Architecture, common errors about Antiquity, Museums, Roman Religion, Ancient Art, marble, Philhellenism

The Peloponnesian Wars (450-445BC and 431-404 BC)

Charlotte Evans wrote 1 week ago: The Ancient Greeks fought two wars that historians have grouped together and named the Peloponnesian … more →

Tags: History, Ancient Greek, ATHENS, Peloponnesian wars, Spartans

El Cid and Babieca

Andrew Petcher wrote 1 week ago: A great cavalry soldier needed a great noble steed and El Cid’s warhorse was a white stallion calle … more →

Tags: Europe, History, Spain, Andalusia, Babieca, cavalry, el cid, Reconquista, roman empire

Past Projects

evehortontextiledesign wrote 1 week ago: Projects i have worked on in the past are varied as i don’t like studying the same thing twice … more →

Tags: Alice in Wonderland, A Mid Summer Night's Dream, movement, Worship, city, Fans and Parasols, graffiti, Unorthodox materials, Urban

Nords Versus Meds, Game Starts at 8 Eastern Time56 comments

Robert Lindsay wrote 1 week ago: In the post, Albanians Are Neither White Nor Europeans? Lafayette Sennacherib takes issue with some … more →

Tags: Antiquity, Culture, Europe, European, Europeans, Fascism, Germany, Greece, Greeks

The good Plutarch

Bill Thayer wrote 1 week ago: Plutarch, bust from the museum of Delphi. Amyot thought and wrote of Plutarch as “le bon Pluta … more →

Tags: Greek Philosophy, LacusCurtius, Bullying, Plutarch, Self-Help, Therapy

Ps.-Plutarch, On Fate

Jona Lendering wrote 1 week ago: Plutarch, bust from the museum of Delphi. Again, a text by Plutarch’s Moralia to announce. Wel … more →

Tags: Ancient History, LacusCurtius, storia antica, Fate

Nearchus

Jona Lendering wrote 1 week ago: A triere My article on Nearchus is several years old, but today, I was able to add a better map. A m … more →

Tags: Ancient History, Ancient Iran, ancient persia, Iran, Livius.Org, Military History, storia antica, Travel, Alexander the Great

More Plutarch1 comment

Jona Lendering wrote 2 weeks ago: Plutarch, bust from the museum of Delphi. And there’s more from Plutarch’s Moralia to an … more →

Tags: Ancient History, LacusCurtius, storia antica, Local Links, Online Texts

Law, Order, and Karma1 comment

truthberry wrote 2 weeks ago: “Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of man have f … more →

Tags: musings, Story, Law & Order, Oedipus, Myth, TV, karma, Joseph Campbell

Introducing first guest writer: Paul F. Newman2 comments

annewhitaker wrote 2 weeks ago: ” THE ODDS AGAINST SCIENCE FICTION.” The odds might be scarier than the stories by Paul … more →

Tags: The Odds Against Science Fiction, "Declination in Astrology The Steps of the Sun", "You’re not a person–just a birth chart, 'The Astrological Journal', the mountain astrologer, doppler shifts, Earth's elliptical orbit, H. G. Wells, meteoric infall

Oh, what a difference 40 years makes....

Bill Thayer wrote 2 weeks ago: Plutarch, bust from the museum of Delphi. Plutarch, or at least the body of work transmitted to us u … more →

Tags: Ancient History, Greek Philosophy, Life Experience, Old Age, Online Texts, personal development, Plutarch, Youth


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