One of the young Athenians who must have taken a good deal of interest in Draco’s writing down of the

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The legend of Theseus and the Minotaur suggests that Athens had dealings with Crete during the Minoan and Mycenaean Ages.

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A Spartan child was examined at birth. A healthy infant was allowed to live. Weaklings were not wanted. They were

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TRUMPETS sounded the fire alarm in Rome on the night of July 18, in the year 64. It seemed that

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AT THE beginning of the second century, the Christian Church was a loosely organized group of independent local churches. There

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IT WAS about the middle of Lent in Antioch, reported Jerome, when “a deep-seated fever fell upon my weakened body,

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Toledo falls and this marks the beginning of the end of Islam in Spain. A triumph for orthodoxy The events

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