Mosaic at the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina in Sicily. Wikimedia Commons June 4, 2024 How can busy people also keep fit and healthy? Here’s what the ancient Greeks and Romans did Konstantine Panegyres, The University of Melbourne If you’re overworked, skipping gym and drinking too much – fret not. People had the same concerns some 2000 years ago.
Amna Artist/Shutterstock May 2, 2024 Why is cancer called cancer? We need to go back to Greco-Roman times for the answer Konstantine Panegyres, The University of Melbourne It started with the ancient Greek word for crab. Here’s what happened after that.
Marble statue of Roman Ceres or Greek Demeter. The Romans inherited their idea of human nature from the Greeks. Shutterstock July 27, 2017 The long walk from ‘civilised’ and ‘barbaric’ to a new world view Rafael Winkler, University of Johannesburg The Greco-Roman society believed that people weren’t born human, they became human. But how can humanity be defined?That’s what the project of decolonising the humanities could be dedicated to.