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Hunting Dogs in the Ancient World

Written by Robert Gate, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom For millennia, dogs and people have shared a close partnership. No one is still ready to claim when and where the first dog was domesticated, but it is generally accepted that it was for hunting. Thousands of years ago, men did not have big guns to aid

Written on September 2, 2020 at 6:00 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: History

Tags: argos, Artemis, Cerberus, Dogs, Egypt, Greece, Hecate, hercules, Hunting, hunting dogs, King Odysseus, Rome, Virgil

Perseus: The Original Hero

By Katherine Smyth, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Of divine conception, saved from certain death, and raised to manhood by his mother, Perseus’ life was never destined to be boring. But just who is the man behind the myth, and how did he achieve such legendary status? Keep reading and you’ll discover just who this hero

Written on October 30, 2019 at 1:07 pm, by Katherine Smyth

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Categories: Heroes

Tags: argos, Bellephron, Gorgon, Greek Heroes, Greek Mythology, Medusa, Megapenthes, Perses, Perseus, Proetus, zeus

The Dangerous Danaids

By Carly Silver, Contributing Writer, Ancient Origins The ancient Greeks had no problem painting their mythological women as murderesses. Among the most lethal ladies were the Danaids, the fifty daughters of a king whose crimes condemned them to Sisyphean fates in the Underworld. But what was so bad about them that the Roman poet Horace

Written on April 13, 2018 at 5:41 pm, by plato

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: aegyptus, Aeschylus, Ancient Greek gods, argos, Danaids, Danaus, Epaphus, Greek Mythology, Hypermnestra, Libya, Lyneus, Poseidon, Suppliants

The Ages of Ancient Greece

By Ben Potter Archaic. Classical. Hellenistic. These terms are often (and quite naturally) conflated together under the generic heading of ‘classical’, or, at the very least, ‘old’. It appears that organizing history into clear, distinct eras can be a tricky business. This, of course, is more true for the Greeks than for the Romans. This

Written on November 28, 2014 at 4:27 pm, by plato

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Categories: Politics

Tags: 480, 776, Aeschylus, Aphaia at Aegina, Archaic, Archaism, argos, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Athens, Bronze, Classical Greece, Corinth, Euripides, Hellenism, Herodotus Thyuchdides, persian war, Plato, Polyclitus, Praxiteles, Prehistoric, socrates, Sophocles, Sparta, tyranny