If there was a ritual associated with the consumption of wine in Greece, it was the symposium. It was the time for drinking and chatting among the guests - only men - after finishing the main meal (deipnon ). At the end of the meal, the servants cleared the tables, decorated the guests with ivy crow
In the period 938 – 967 AD the worst enemy of the Byzantine Empire was the emir of Aleppo, the famous Saif al-Dawla. The emir had become a source of fear and terror in the region of todays Syria, daring attacks deep into Byzantine territory. al-Natullah was a fanatical Muslimdetermined to bring t
Wishful thinking is a beautiful thing, but its hard to argue with the facts. The Second Polish Republic was not a vestibule of civilization. More like a backwater. Single developed cities were separated by hundreds of kilometers of mud, backwardness and banditry. You could even say that our ancestor
Since 1995, the emeritus professor of Medicine of the AUTH, Thomas Gerasimidis, has been investigating the causes of death of the Greek soldier Alexander the Great, even rejecting other theories. Alexander the Great died of acute necrotizing pancreatitis! This conclusion was reached after many years