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The earliest Ancient Greek statues of men and women had the men nude but the women in (big, blocky) full-body dresses. Later on, nude women statues started being made. Was this because of a big change in norms or just getting the techniques to do it?
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What have the Carthaginians ever done for us? Or do we not have any record of what they'd contributed to the Mediterranean world before their destruction on account of how through it was?
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Prof. said the "Unity of Mankind" theory regarding Alexander the Great might just have sprung up in the early 20th Century because the League of Nations was becoming a thing around that time and international fraternity seemed like a noble goal. Any truth to that, or just post-hoc rationalization?
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Are there any academic debates regarding the ethics of tourism centred around places like the Roman Colosseum (and other places where people were essentially killed for entertainment)?
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Read the John Boardman quote about women being little more than coat-hangers to Archaic Greek sculptors. Ancient Greece was patriarchal, but not all men held power and some women held status, wouldn't art of women tend to be of those who had power and not just decoration?
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If Persepolis was just a "ceremonial capital" of the Persian empire, where exactly was all the decision-making being made and Persian citizens living?
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Read the John Boardman quote about women being little more than coat-hangers to Archaic Greek sculptors. Ancient Greece was patriarchal, but not all men held power and some women held status, wouldn't art of women tend to be of those who had power and not just decoration?
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How could Sparta manage to be consistently comparable in influence to Athens in the Classic Period with such a considerably smaller total population, smaller percent of its citizens as warriors, and much less population density. Were their fighters just that much better?
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