Showing posts with label ancient Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancient Greece. Show all posts
Friday, March 6, 2026

Five Books about Books

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In the Library of Congress catalog system, books about books are under Z: Bibliography, Library Science, and General Information Resources. ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Where are the Augurs?

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Originally, the Romans were seven hilltop villages under Etruscan domination. The nominally Roman deities Minerva, Mercury, and Vulcan were ...
Friday, October 8, 2021

Long ago Miletus was great.

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In five generations from 650 BCE  to 500 BCE --a span from your grandparents to your grandchildren--civilization was transformed by the conf...
Monday, April 27, 2020

My Numismatic Bibliography (Partial List)

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Much can be learned from examinating, comparing, contrasting. sorting, and arranging. It is said that Mendeleev established the periodic tab...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

A Socratic Mob

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Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. -- The Federalist No. 55 Another gener...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Ann M. Zakelj (1947-2019)

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We met in Cleveland, Ohio, 1996, when I was a contractor with the U. S. Department of Defense Financial Accounting Service (DFAS). When s...
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Monday, March 5, 2018

ELECTRUM SIXTHS AND THE TREATY OF MYTILENE

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For about 200 years, from about 520 to 320 BCE, the Greek towns of Phokaia and Mytilene, both along the Ionian coast of what is today weste...