Ancient Egyptians made efficient use of all the parts of the papyrus plant, which they considered to be a “gift of the Nile.” For...

Maybe because I’m a writer too, I wince when I read a scathing review. I know the work it takes to put words together. But it also takes...

Greek medicine was based on Hippocrates’s theory of the four humors, that diseases occurred when a humor became imbalanced in response to...

In last week’s blog, we saw that the Greeks approached the practice of medicine scientifically. The Romans, however, banned dissection...

Miriam explains in The Deadliest Lie that her favorite school subject was anatomy: My tutor Hector would tell us about Herophilos of...

The Romans used frescoes to expand their interiors, which were often small and claustrophobic. The history of Roman painting is...

So how can you show the way the words are spoken?” Please, not by attaching an adverb like angrily, sadly, or happily, or worse yet, by...

There are a million synonyms for the word “said.” When tagging ordinary speech, you could replace said with stated, reported, or added....

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Along with gladiators and actors who also exuded a sexual allure, prostitutes were regarded as shameful. Even if free by birth, they were...