Archive for April, 2010

Zarathustra Or Zoroaster Quote

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.

Eros exhibition: Eros exhibition opens Cyclades Art Museum of Athens

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

A statue known as Feathered Eros. ‘The concept of Eros – love – was very broad in ancient times,’ says the archaeologist Nicholaos Stampolidis, director of the museum. ‘Sexual desire was … a unifying force that encompassed the desire for anyone or indeed anything’ Photograph: Simela Pantzartzi/EPA

Women in Ancient Egypt

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

by Caroline Seawright February 10, 2001 Women in Ancient Egypt In the ancient world, Egypt stood out as a land where women were treated differently.

Ancient Egyptian Sexuality and Girl

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

…Revel in pleasure while your life endures And deck your head with myrrh. Be richly clad In white and perfumed linen; like the gods Anointed be; and never weary grow In eager quest of what your heard desires – Do as it prompts you…

Sex life of the ancient Greeks in all its physical glory

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

A marble statuette of a sleeping Eros and a lion next to him on display at the Cycladic Art museum in Athens. Photograph: Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters The ancient Greeks were never at a loss for words when it came to love and lust – and an exhibition that opened in Athens today laying bare the practice [...]

History Of Sex – Ancient Cultures

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

History Of Sex – Ancient Cultures