A broad term used for the period of cultural history of the Greco-Roman world that lasted from the 8th century BC to the decline of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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History of scientific regression
Throughout history, humans have made many subtle and many substantial scientific advancements. Humans have explored, examined, learned, applied and at times seemingly "forgotten" and/or were unable ...
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What factors contributed to earlier democratic states failing?
Conventional wisdom says that democracy is the superior form of government.
If this is true, then factors might have contributed to earlier democratic states like Athens in 500 BCE and the Roman ...
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When did the Roman forum fall into disuse?
The Roman forum is reported to have already been falling apart in 8th century by a anonymous traveler, according to Wikipedia. The question is, with the Visigothic and Byzantine conquests of Italy, ...
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Why do we find a large number of nude male characters in ancient Greek paintings and sculptures?
Why do we find a large number of nude male characters in ancient Greek paintings and sculptures? What was the social status of nudity in ancient Greece?
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How accurately could ancient astronomers find latitude and longitude?
In classical times (let's say 200 BC to 400 AD), how accurately could a Greek/Roman/Babylonian/etc. astronomer determine their location on the earth by coordinates like latitude/longitude?
Could they ...
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How were heavier objects weighed in antiquity/middle ages?
How were heavier objects weighed in antiquity or the middle ages? Were balances simply scaled up in size with appropriately larger weights? Did people know how much an elephant or even an ox actually ...
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What was the origin of the Classical Antiquity culture?
I many times heard a version that the advances of the Ancient Greek culture were in fact borrowed from Egypt or the Middle East. I will not buy this. Classical Antiquity civilization had a lot of ...
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To what extent the Jewish theatre of the late Antiquity resembled the Greek one?
Sometime ago I had watched the film Agora by Alejandro Amenábar Although the film's idea is impressing, it stroke me with some suspicious historical details. For example, the Christian monks are ...
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How was Hippolyta (Queen of Amazons) depicted in art over the ages? [closed]
I'm interested in the particular artworks, especially sculptures and paintings and rather classical than contemporary art. Art there any noted artworks I should be aware of?
I'm looking for any ...
