Selections from what is widely accepted as the finest collection of coins from the Netherlands ever assembled will find new ...

东汉末年，经济萧条，物价飞涨，货币体系濒临崩溃，“谷一斛至数十万”。至曹魏黄初二年（公元221年），朝廷宣布停用五铢钱，以谷物、布匹作为一般等价物进行交易。此举虽然暂时缓解决通货膨胀的问题，但也导致“钱废谷用既久，人间巧伪渐多”，弊端丛生。随着生产力 ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

According to legend, the Trojan prince Paris visited Sparta, which at the time was ruled by King Menelaus. Menelaus’ wife Helen was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. When Paris ...

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Helen is the wife of Menelaus - King of Sparta - and he musters an army led by his brother Agamemnon to sail to Troy to take Helen back. The war lasts for 10 long years, during which time the main ...

The School of Theater displays power and strength in the performance of the Greek tragedy, “The Trojan Women.” ...

In Greek mythology, the princess Cassandra warned her fellow Trojans that the wooden horse outside the gate of Troy was ...

My wife and I were winding through the maze-like grid of paths at the sumptuous Romanos Resort, the first of four ultra-luxury hotels to open at Costa Navarino, and this was more like a dream replete ...

They asked him to be the judge of who's the fairest among them, and he chose Aphrodite. For his reward, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, caused Helen, Queen of Sparta, to fall in love with Paris, ...