Australian classicist Professor Marguerite Johnson, whose career was devoted to studying ancient Greek literature and culture, had spent much of her life exploring Greece’s past before choosing the country as her home.
That new chapter ended tragically when Johnson and...
The practice of magic with spells, charms, erotic dolls was widespread in ancient Greece and Rome. Although it was discouraged and sometimes even punished in antiquity, it thrived all the same. Authorities publicly condemned it but tended to ignore...