After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

For just two weeks each spring, a rare violet artichoke is harvested by hand on Venice's northern islands – and locals go to ...

It s only fair to ask after all these chaotic decades Just what kind of liberation even is this and whose freedom are we ...

A History of Sex and Christianity —the kind of hefty tome inevitably described as “magisterial” by reviewers—teems with ...

He challenged his sentence at the Court of Appeal in February alongside Janus Atkin, David Carruthers, Ashley Williams, ...

(In fact, self-castration was a more popular Christian ... before going on to minister to a lot of prominent and affluent Roman women. Jerome was “no friend to sexual activity of any sort ...

that are the descendants of Greco-Roman Cupids and Renaissance-era cherubim and putti, mostly naked, potbellied and saucer-eyed with dark winged lashes. There’s also waddling Pikachu (1996 ...