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It is true that within most socieities it has been the male that has had the multiple partners - married and otherwise and this has been accepted. Circumstantial evidence points to the facts being a little different. Now, in the industrialised G8 area, we are seeing the growth of female...

I like the start of Plato's 'Republic', where they send their slaves off to get some papers before they start discussing democratic government. Good and Bad are perhaps the most flexible terms we have. When one group claim they are right, whoever is arguing against them simply points out the...

Sorry to hog, I enclose a quote from Sacredstar. Whilst the people concerned might not have seen the statue in connection with Apollo, the fact that it is readily available on the internet and in a fair number of books dealing with Greek art means that, if they have ever seen an statues of...

Soomething else occurred to me about the two images posted. Chrolologically, they are in the right order but the Greek image dates from the pre-Classical period and is used as an example of how the Greeks were starting to change their statues and art. Dating from around 700/600 BCE, it has a...

I'm not convinced of the similarity of the images posted. They have eyes but one sees,the other does not. They have hair, one hangs loose, the other does not, the noses are elongated, wich is a Indo-European trait. The Greek face is thin, the Buddha is not. There was a significant Geek...

Just to play Devil's advocate and having had close business contacts with China, if the rules say you have to live 5 000 km from home for 11 months a year and learn English, you might think some of the rules a bit silly. Other ruels that shut off major rivers and force millions of people away...

My understanding is that there were a number of earthquakes in the Mediterranean around 1400 to 1200 BCE and it was these that destroyed Knossos and other towns (I always conflate this with the myth of Atlantis because some of the Islands lost whole towns into the sea), plus there was the Sea...

Within the Wester tradition, the Greeks are credited with the earliest discourses on 'the self'. Generally, the interpretations of this are known as 'ontological' or epistemelogical'. I'm trying to redefine this slightly and am looking for words that define man as generally: 1. refering...

Relatively cheap book to introduce Chinese philosophy: Chan: Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton 1973), less than $30 as new but historically comprehensive. Living in society means following stupid rules and not thinking for youself - look at the 'rush hour'. Chinese philosophy is...

That's not him, it's my autie Maud!

One thing that worries me about numbering: If there is no zero, how do you know something is 10 and not 1? To lack a symbol for something is not, of course, the same as not knowing what it was - both Egyptians and Greeks had a clear understanding of zero and nothing, using the terms in their...

It's become a pretty generic term and if you research virtually any country, you will find references to it now but basic definition from the Oxford Classical dicrionary: Other sites: http://www.loggia.com/myth/syrinx.html nymphs (nymph, ‘maiden’), in Greek myth, female personifications of...

What I'm arguing is that I can't think of a society in which killing is entirely unknown - although it seems somewhat more common in industrial societies, or if you give everyone a gun. If killing is passed off as an 'animal' response, are we claiming that it is not 'human', that those that...

There are a few specialist music departments that are researching and reproducing Etruscan and Mycaenean music, I'll see If I can dig out a name for you - burried in my notes. http://www.soundcenter.it/cdflautieng.htm You can also try: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/1998-11-22.html...

There are some interesting finds in Egypt, although not as old, the results can be extrapolated to argue that humans have been a bit busier than we tend to think. First, the Egyptians used Lapiz Lazuli, which comes from Afghanistan (Kabul to Cairio is as far as Cairo to London, as a little...

Does anyone have any comments on the age of 'Atlantis'? I think we are talking about a time similar to the war with Troy and the fall of Mycenea, just before they 'Dark Ages' of the 1300 - 800 BCE period. This would explain why the story of such a momentous event is so badly recorded by the...

I'm not sure I would go so far as to claim that the *Trojans* went to Italy. My theory is that the Ilians and Greek attackers were certaily long time trading partners and possibly even allies before the war (on the map, they occupy the crucial region around the Aegean that I mentioned earlier)...

I can't think of anything specifically animal about killig a child, or young. There is something modern-industrial about the claim to ownership that creates situations where people kill theirr own or other's children. Oedipus was left on a mountain to die, which was not an uncommon practice...

I heard the barcoding project was short of money and would have to barcode itself... What is the point of such classifications? Again, we seem to be trying to force everything into a valid description. If we found something new, we would label it as 'primarily x', completely ignoring the...

The idea of God having a gender is problematic for three reasons: First, the English language does not have a genderless pronoun, as many other languages do. Second, God has become human. God has a face, features. Yet God (even in Christianity, where God is all but human, Greek myth...