When learning a new language, it is inevitable that you want to find out the “bad words.” It is no different when learning ancient languages like Latin or Greek. For instance, in Latin words to describe the male genitalia are considered the bad words. These words were mentula and uerpa. For all intents and purposes…
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Sparta…Great For Women!
The best place to be a woman in Ancient Greece was…Sparta. Really? You mean that bloodthirsty lot who were horrendously outnumbered at Thermopylae and yet still went on to win. That was a good place for women? Well, yes, I cry! Ignore the silly film that is 300, depicting Sparta as the blood-thirstiest place to…
Six Reasons To Love Cleopatra VIII
Now, although we could jabber on about Anne Boleyn all day, we decided to take a break from both jabbering on about the Tudors…and talking altogether! New Contributor, Annelise Baer, has taken the reigns from us and reveals the six reasons behind her love for Cleopatra! Elizabeth Taylor, Theda Bara and Vivien Leigh in their…