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Konstantine Panegyres, The University of Western Australia “It is the law of human life and of human nature that a new generation is ever coming forth,” said the Roman statesman Cicero (106–43 BCE). His view was echoed by the poet Simonides of Ceos (6th to 5th century BCE): “As is the generation of leaves, so…
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Flint Dibble, Cardiff University The agricultural economy was the backbone of wealth in ancient Greece. Food brought people together, whether in smaller groups at a wine-drinking symposium, or the entire community in a sacrificial feast of epic proportions. In The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem, Odysseus’s son joins one of these early feasts –…
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