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user: diodorus created: 2014-10-08 karma: 24016 "What shall we say? Necessity was man's instructor, which made him skillful in every thing, being an ingenious creature." submissions: Beyond Greece and Rome 21 points | 10 comments Trivial Pursuits 24 points | 6 comments Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' 179 points | 2 comments Roman Letters 110 points | 17 comments There's No Substitute for Reading: A Roundtable with 4 Literary Magazine Editors 2 points | 0 comments What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down 28 points | 24 comments 'The Tower and the Ruin' Review: Seeking Tolkien's Past 3 points | 0 comments A Cosmic Offense: Elias Canetti's contest against death 10 points | 0 comments The Legacy of Nicaea 37 points | 47 comments Avellino Eruption 1 points | 0 comments Ancient Roman Gravestone Found in New Orleans Backyard Touches Off a Mystery 2 points | 1 comments Lake Mungo Remains 1 points | 0 comments A Greek island's first settlers were Neanderthal 5 points | 0 comments Lü Buwei 2 points | 0 comments Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam 85 points | 121 comments Charvaka 1 points | 0 comments The daily life of a medieval king 294 points | 167 comments Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling 43 points | 3 comments On Academic Productivity 4 points | 0 comments Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator's Iconic Opening Battle, Part I 66 points | 25 comments The Enlightenment, Then and Now 1 points | 0 comments War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America 59 points | 41 comments War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America 5 points | 1 comments The Old, Old, Old Man 14 points | 0 comments Christopher Hill's History from Below 14 points | 1 comments Charles Butler's the Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 Edition) 8 points | 0 comments A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away 33 points | 51 comments A Passion for Fruit 16 points | 1 comments We've Forgotten What College Is For 3 points | 0 comments