Few foods can compete with olive oil. Its salubrious properties have turned it into one of the most recognisable symbols of healthy living as well as a sign of tacit resistance to the industrialisation of food and loss of authentic flavours. Its rich history, stretching back to the Greeks, Egyptians and Babylonians, plays an enormous…
Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human beings and discuss ways to prevent this. These concerns are not new. Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from these ancient times…
The process of integration of Lesbos in the Roman Empire relied both on war and diplomacy. The history of the cities of the biggest island of the northern Aegean, during the events that led to the consolidation of Roman dominion, from the time of Sulla to that of Augustus, makes them typical examples of the…