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New England at the Black Sea... an 11th c. CE colony of English exiles after the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066 CE, as narrated in the Chronicon Laudunensis

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Human stories from Papyri: a complaining servant, a cheating pharmacist & a tyrannical elder

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A legendary action of heroism during the Siege of Saguntum in 219 BCE, as sculpted by Agustín Querol

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Reading Greek in Ammianus Marcellinus' history. Prophecies, proverbs and vocabulary...

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The women from Amphissa by Alma Tadema. An ancient anti-war story

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First sacred war & the sieges of Cirrha & Crissa... chemical warfare?

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Anthemius, the architect of Hagia Sophia... a vengeful prankster

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Depicting Devil in Christian art... from early middle ages to Dante

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Delphi 279 BCE... when Apollo made the sky fall upon Gauls and Pan filled them up with terror

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