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The Eleusis Ploutonion – The Gateway to Hell
The Eleusis ploutonion is a sacred sanctuary in the ancient Greco-Roman city of Eleusis, located in the Thriasian Plain in the West Attica Regional unit of Greece.
Ancient Greeks would not recognise our ‘democracy’ – they’d see an ‘oligarchy’
We owe to the ancient Greeks much, if not most of our own current political vocabulary. All the way from anarchy and democracy to politics itself. But their politics and ours are very different beasts.
Spectacular finds from ancient greek shipwreck: New Antihythera discoveries prove luxury cargo survives
A team of Greek and international divers and archaeologists have retrieved stunning new discoveries from an ancient Greek ship that sank over 2,000 years ago off the remote island of Antikythera. The rescued antiquities include tableware, ship components and a giant bronze spear that would have belonged to a life-sized warrior statue.
The Ancients’ Greatest Hits – The Music Of Ghosts: The Greeks
Music is a cognitive recognition of the primitive elements in all of us, the exact same primitive elements that have existed all through our evolution, love, greed, loss, jealousy, hate.