The First Golden Straw
The First Golden Straw The Maykop (Maikop; Majkop) culture was an Early Bronze Age culture in the region of southern Russia and the north-western Caucasus between 4000 – 3200 BC. The eponymous site is the town of Maykop, Russia, where a large kurgan (mound) was...
Kottabos
Kottabos The famous game of kottabos was fashionable in Athens in the 6th to 5th century BC and became a widespread passion in southern Italy until ca. the 4th century BC. The idea of the game was the “artful throwing of wine” consumed from a bowl (kylix)...
Cleopatra’s Pearls
Cleopatra’s Pearls Cleopatra’s pearls (also called Cleopatra’s banquet) is a famous bet described of Pliny The Elder (Natural History 9.119-21). The last of the Egyptian Queens owned the two greatest pearls of her time which had been given to her by...