March 8, 2009
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This is kind of different … a press release for a doctoral dissertation! Ecce: Most people have heard of the great Greeks Euclid and Archimedes. And who is not familiar with Pythagoras” theorem? When Rome usurped political power around the Mediterranean, the Romans came into close contact with Greek culture, its literature and science. According…
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The Belfast Telegraph reports on an incident between those pseudo-Gladiatorial folks who hang out by the Colosseum … inter alia: One of the “centurions” who haunts the Colosseum suffered head injuries this week in a fight with a colleague outside the arena. A police officer said he found the man sprawled on the ground “with…