From modern words for ghost, to Latin and Greek terms for spirits, to ghost words that haunt dictionaries, we explore some spooky etymologies and tell some ancient ghost stories.Sound EducationGreen Ghost CocktailLiquified Ghost CocktailGhost videoEidolon online journalPliny’s letter 7.27 in EnglishVIdeo of a performance of the Latin version of Pliny’s ghost storyList of ancient ghost…

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Pope Anterus is one of the most unfortunate of the early popes, due to one of the shortest papacies in history. But in this episode, we seek to uncover if he did anything to make this short papacy substantial.

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The myths that have grown up around Cleopatra since her eventful reign in the first century BCE are so vivid and alluring that they seem to have taken on a life of their own. The Egyptian queen has been portrayed in art and literature as a wily temptress whose devastating beauty seduced two of Rome’s…

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Hold onto your piloi as we cover the first and second wars of the Diadochi, with war elephants, vengeful mothers and betrayal marking the years 320 – 316 B.C. Title theme by Lina Palera (@user-994392473) Distributed by suRRism-phonoethics (surrism-phonoethics.bandcamp.com/) Website: hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/ iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-h…d1377920930?mt=2 SoundCloud: @user-103425037 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=225541&refid=stpr Twitter: twitter.com/HellenisticPod

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Meanwhile, while Germs was off in Germany fighting Germans… Tibbo had major problems to deal with. SILK CLOTHING. CASSIUS DIO: Tiberius forbade any man to wear […]

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