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The story of Helen of Troy, and the Trojan war specifically, is best known from the Iliad, by Homer, after the abduction by Paris of Troy, which was ultimately the catalyst for the ten-year Trojan War. The most common version of the birth...

The Catiline Conspiracy was the attempt of the Roman senator Catiline to overthrow the government of Rome whilst Cicero was a consul. This happened during the Roman Republic which was the period of Rome’s history before the Empire. The Roman...

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The Pergamon Altar, c. 200-150 BCE, 35.64 x 33.4 meters, Hellenistic Period (Pergamon Museum, Berlin). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

The Kingdom of Pergamon was a Hellenistic state on the coast of Turkey, that would be one of the closest allies to the growing power of Rome. Discover more about this ancient kingdom!

The literary genre of Mesopotamian Naru Literature first appeared in the region around the second millennium BCE and the stories not only became very popular, but seemed to replace the actual historical events in the minds of the people...

Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace by Alexander Mikaberidze is about a character, a historical figure, but also the main protagonist of the book that many people claim to have read, but very few actually manage to get through, War and Peace...

The Finding Bigfoot team gathers as much information as they can about the legendary Menehune of Hawaii. Watch full episodes of Finding Bigfoot | https://www.animalplanetgo.com/finding-bigfoot/ Subscribe to Animal Planet: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=animalplanettv...

A fable is a short story that usually includes animals that act like people as the main characters and conveys a moral or a lesson to be learnt. Aesop’s Fables (which come to a total of 725, although modern editions often only include between...

The principle of Yin and Yang dates from the third century BCE and perhaps even later than that, and is the foundational principle of Chinese philosophy and Chinese medicine. Yin and Yang is a symbol of balanced opposites, where they are...