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Linda Persson
Oct 24, 20224 min read
The Wandering Womb: The much entertaining, ideological female disease of ancient Greece
The Hippocratic Corpus is a series of medical treaties, dated around the second half of the 5th century BCE to the first half of the 4th...
Cindy Levesque
Oct 24, 20224 min read
The City Asklepieion
Asklepios is the Greek god of medicine and healing. The god was worshipped all over Greece and his sanctuaries, called Asklepieions,...
Linda Persson
Oct 24, 20225 min read
Women in Classical Greece: The Life of Athenian Women during the Classical Period.
When one thinks about ancient Greece, especially during the Classical period (c. 480-323 BCE), what immediately comes to mind are the...
Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir
Oct 24, 20225 min read
Gynaecology in the Roman Empire: Soranus of Ephesus
Female anatomy and gynaecology have been poorly understood through-out history, but there are examples of thorough gynaecological text...
Christofer Ek
Oct 24, 20222 min read
Perseus and the Gorgon: A tale of parricide, love and dieties.
We have all heard stories about the flying horse Pegasus, and the terrifying gorgon, Medusa. But who was the person that actually...
Josefin Percival
Oct 24, 20223 min read
False doors: gateways to the other world
Without a doubt, any visitor to a museum with a larger Egyptian collection, or indeed to Egypt itself, has failed to notice the large...
Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir
Oct 24, 20224 min read
The mystery of Thoth Hill
Thoth Hill is a hilltop temple that is located in the mountains on the west side of the Nile and is named after fragments of a statue...
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