The ancient Greeks were well versed in the spectrum of gender and queerness, often taking up the theme of sexuality with ...

Many ancient Greek statues depict male figures with what we might consider today to be small penises. This is quite ...

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Back in the BCE years, Aristophanes wrote a play that absolutely rocked peoples’ world and blew their minds. It was called ...

The first master of comedy was the playwright Aristophanes. Much later Menander wrote comedies about ordinary people and made his plays more like sit-coms. Tragedy: Tragedy dealt with the big ...

The story of our punctuation marks begins with a man called Aristophanes of Byzantium. In around the 2nd century BC, he ...

Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, ...

The terrorist threat is once again shaking Europe. And it takes a lot of censorship to hide the facts. Read them ...

Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

Artist Chesley Bonestell worked from rocket scientist Wernher von Braun's original designs to paint this view of a space station hovering above Central America, together with a resuable shuttle ...

In Symposium, the comic playwright Aristophanes tells of a time when there were not just two genders of humans, but three.