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The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights
2022 PROSE Award Finalist in ClassicsAlthough the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European …
The Ancient Future of the Itza
The title of Edmonson's work refers to the Mayan custom of first predicting their history and then living it, and it may be that no other peoples have ever gone so far in this …
Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes
Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and …
Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in …
Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place …
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome
Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous …
Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca
In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the …
Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome
Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Propertius—these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the …
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
In ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in …
Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru
The Nasca Lines are one of the world's great enigmas. Who etched the more than 1,000 animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern …