History has long pitted Persian and Greek societies as moral opposites—the former, a culture of hedonists, and the latter defined by no-frills self discipline. A new exhibition titled “Luxury and ...
The Persians decided on important matters by debating major issues twice, once while sober and again while drunk.
Coco Chanel called luxury “a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” When form exceeds function, it expresses another kind of need, the claim to status. The British Museum’s “Luxury and Power: ...
An amphora that is part of the Panagyurishte Treasure from the National Historical Museum, Bulgaria, displayed in Luxury & Power: Persia to Greece at the British Museum. The Trustees of the British ...
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The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC ⚔️ First Persian invasion of ancient Greece
5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...
In September of the year 490, the Persian forces landed at the sandy harbour of Marathon with an invasion force of 600 ships, 20,000 or more foot soldiers, and 800 cavalry. Also with them was the ...
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