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revised Why do we find a large number of nude male characters in ancient Greek paintings and sculptures?
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Dec
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revised How accurately could ancient astronomers find latitude and longitude?
title => question (also removed Greek from the title, as the question isn't specific to Greeks), plus a couple of tags
Dec
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revised When did homosexuality become unacceptable in Europe?
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Dec
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revised History of scientific regression
This was missing the most relevant tag, [science]. Unfortunately we can only have 5 tags per question, so I also replaced [ancient-greece] and [ancient-rome] with [classical-antiquity] that kinda means both
Dec
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revised What were the reasons for the Renaissance / scientific revolution in Europe?
title -> question, and added some tags
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comment Was there an assassination attempt against Xerxes in the battle of Thermopylae?
@T.E.D. By Diodorus account it was (kind of) an assassination attempt. The Greeks sneaked into the Persian camp at night, with the single objective of killing Xerxes and started killing Persians only after they were discovered. If, of course, that's what happened.
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awarded  Announcer
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comment Why was the movement for Austro-German unity less successful than that of Italian unity?
Certainly, but it kinda left some (emotional, political, etc) baggage which probably explains why Austrians couldn't care less about unification with Germany nowadays.
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awarded  Tag Editor
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nice, the previous expert suggested Alexander died at age 13 :/
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