Oikos is a Greek word that refers to a household or family unit. In ancient Greece, the oikos was the basic unit of economic and social organization. It consisted of the head of the household, his wife and children, and any other relatives who lived with them. The oikos was responsible for providing food, shelter, and clothing for its members, as well as educating the children and providing for the elderly.
One smart man convinced all of Poland that sugar is a medicine for everything. And he made good money on it! “Poland seen from the window of the wagon is a very picturesque country,” thought a Frenchman who traveled around Poland by train in the early 1930s. - “Railway station buildings very neat
It was not the (black) plague of the 14th century, but a later outbreak in the 17th century that, for example, in England killed almost 100,000 people and more than a fifth of the population of London. 3 or 4 days ago I saw an unburied corpse in a coffin on the street... the plague is making us cr
When looking for a wife, in this case queen, different criteria were used than those currently used, normally they had to do with political and economic alliances. But the case at hand goes a little further, queen was chosen by name . In a three-way agreement between Felipe II Augusto (King of Fran
Alalia of Corsica, todays Aleria, was a Greek city founded by settlers from Phocaea in Asia Minor during the Second Greek Colonization. The Phocaeans who had founded Phocaea were settlers from Phocis and Athens. The Phocaeans had also founded other cities in the wider area of the Italian and Frenc