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Where was the theater in Byzantium?
As a Hellenistic city, there must have been a theater or maybe even an amphitheater in Byzantium, which would have also been present during the Constantinople era, but never have I seen or heard any ...
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Did Democritus of Abdera, Thrace accuse the Jews of sacrificing Greeks in their religious rituals?
I was on Wikipedia reading about Blood Libel when I came across the following sentence:
The earliest known antecedent is from a man named Democritus (not the philosopher) mentioned in the Suda,[15]......
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Was the ancient Pontic city of Athenai (Ἀθῆναι) related to Athens?
The city of Athenai (Ἀθῆναι, modern Pazar, Turkey), in some contexts referred to as Pontic Athens, situated on the Pontic shore about halfway between Trapezus (modern Trabzon, Turkey) and Bathys Limen ...
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Why did Gibbon call the Aegean Sea 'Holy'?
While listening to Gibbon's 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' I came across the following in Chapter 53:
The spacious provinces of Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece, were obedient to their ...
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Who was the earliest historian of the Greco-Roman world to write something substantial about China?
I recently came across an article about the Byzantine historian Theophylact Simocattis and learned that he wrote about the reunification of China by Emperor Wen.
I also know that Cosmas ...
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How widespread was practice of fusion of Graeco-Roman and barbarian names?
There are some instances when barbarian names were romanized in order to be similar to already existing Roman or Greek names. Just some examples that come to mind:
Hebrew Martha -> Marta ("of Mars")
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