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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

"According to the Scythians, theirs is the youngest of all nations, and it came into existence in the following way. The first man born...

The sword was discovered in a burial mound near the village of Velyka Bilozerka, Zaporizhia Region, Ukraine. It dates to the last third of...

In 1892, a prominent maritime painter of Armenian descent born in Crimea, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), made a gift to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,...

Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: Iphigeneia en Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. Although Wikipedia states that 'there...

In that short passage in the Iliad about the cranes flying from winter plains to the pigmies in the south there is so much...

"We recently learned of Cultural Forces, the cultural arm of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, through our own James Hetfield. @culturalforces.international features seven world-class...

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"We've had to relearn a lot about fighting a peer adversary, such as the Russians. We've learned so much from the Ukrainians.I've never...

Feb., 2022. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change...

..if you want to visit a city with great architecture, magnificent churches, bustling markets and charming cobblestone streets with significantly fewer tourists, you...

E. Minns in the "Scythians and Greeks" book published in 1913: "An isolated example recalling this type is the barrow called Perepjatikha, in the...

May 23, 2023. "Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday cited a 17th-Century map of Europe to back his discredited thesis that Ukraine isn't a real...