I myself, a helper in war, was marshalled among them on that day when the Amazon women came, men’s equals” Priam in Homer’s Iliad iii.182-189 Throughout the course of history the Amazons have continued to capture the fascination and imagination of scholars, historians and archaeologists alike. Accounts of these mysterious female warriors can be found scattered amongst ancient Greek and Roman li...

Introductory textbooks in the History of Economic Thought use at colleges and universities devote little space to Scholasticism its influence. Even those that do not start straight with Physiocrats, Thomas Aquinas appears stuck between Ancient Greek Philosophers Mun. “medieval” economic thought characterized as primitive focused on “obsolete” issues like usury just price. Sometimes it is even c...

Background: In the pre-Hellenistic period, the concept of medicine was not well-defined. Usually, a disease was considered as a divine punishment and its treatment was devolved to the priests who asked for healing from the divinities. The only job that could be compared to medical practice was a kind of itinerant medicine, derived from the Egyptian therapeutic tradition based only on practical ...