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Spartan warriors engage in philosophical debates amidst a sprawling ancient Greek cityscape.
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AO THROWBACK: Aphrodite: The True Origins of the Greek Goddess of Love, Sex, and Beauty
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Pulled from the sea in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism used intricate bronze gears to calculate the heavens—and more than half remains missing today.
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As mentioned before, the topic of historical games is currently reorganized on our #wiki. And that line of work brought us the latest subpage, a transcription of a #publicDomain article "Musical Games of Antiquity" by J. F. Rowbotham from 1899:
http://musicgames.wikidot.com/source:rowbotham-musical-games-of-antiquity
The central activity in the text is "The Cottabos" consisting of throwing wine to a cup and listening to the sound...
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