It is often valuable and instructive to look back in history to find out how we got where we are today. A colleague of ours recently named his blog “Asclepiad,” referring to the ancient Greek god of medicine, Asclepius. As we looked further into background information on Asclepius—as well as information about the father of medicine, Hippocrates—we found some highly relevant points for readers w...

The Nereid Monument in the Lycean tomb, dated to between 390 and 380 BCE, depicts a besieged city in which a woman is tearing out her hair in lament of her potential fate – rape, enslavement, and possibly death. The image testifies to the cruel and inhumane treatment of captives that often characterized ancient Greek warfare, particularly with respect to siege warfare. In ancient Greece, only t...

The purpose of the study is to find out whether hoplitodromos, or hoplite race, was more a military sporting event, nature this agon associated with its late introduction into program Panhellenic games, and rules for organization differed in local competitions. On basis written sources data from Attic vase painting, author shows that there were different types weapons participants run - heavy l...

Economics is the social science concerned with the production, distribution and consumption of wealth. The word economics is derived from the ancient Greek word ‘Oikonomia’. This roughly translates to household management. The ancient Greeks used oikonomia to refer to the organizing of activities in a household and to larger political units as well, such as city-states. Oikonomia, as used in an...