The HnTtyw-Demons in the Greco-Roman Temples " مردة الحنستیو فی معابد العصرین الیونانی والرومانی"

Greco-Roman ethics and the naturalistic fantasy.

To modern scholars, the naturalistic fallacy looks out of place in Greco-Roman antiquity owing to the robust associations between nature, especially human nature, and moral norms. Yet nature was understood by ancient authors not only as a norm but also as a form of necessity. The Greco-Roman philosophical schools grappled with how to reconcile the idea that human nature is given with the idea t...

The problem of female infanticide in the Greco-Roman world.

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-roman World

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarize the current state of scholarship in their specialized fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Ro...

Contraception and abortion in the Greco-Roman world.

The author discusses the validity of the claim that, in Antiquity, effective contraceptives and abortifacients were available, were widely used, and their use was responsible for the decline of population in certain periods. After reviewing the maneuvers and drugs used for those purposes, the author concludes that ancient physicians did not have at their disposal effective contraceptives and ab...

Formation of the Mithraic Temples in Northwestern Iran and Comparison with Roman Mithraeums

Mithraism was a mystery religion centered on the god Mithras that was practiced in the ancient world, including India, Iran, Anatolia, Etc. Despite numerous documents such as the most ancient religious books of the world including the Avesta and Rig Veda, and the oldest inscriptions Including: Boğazköy and Achaemenid inscriptions, and finding hundreds of temples in the territory of ancient Rome...