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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In 1492, young Giovanni de’ Medici bade farewell to his father, Lorenzo the Magnificent and left Florence to take his

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The houses of Venice are “like sea-birds half on sea and half on land,” said Cassiodorus. An officer of a

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In all Europe there was no greater admirer of Italy than Francis I, king of France. Francis practiced Italian manners

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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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