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I dislike how reductionist these sort of arguments get as if curly hair means Greek. Also, it's not that the Mycenaean reconstruction has a particularly dark skin complexion, it's not that it's dark,...

I don't either, I am not sure I have a strong grasp of Yetos's arcane way of typing.

It seemed to me that he was saying that the Greek Mycenaean warrior pic represents a somewhat common phenotype...

None of those faces are particularly Greek looking, least of all the complexion - wtf?

I am not sure why suddenly, just 'cos of the pic of the alleged Mycenaean warrior, Greek nationalists on...

There was a study I read in which the authors found that you're less likely to retain information when you're reading from tablets and e-books than from paper books.

I know what Cato believed. My problem is that according to this view, Scipio Africanus (a so-called "philhellene" and Cato's political adversary) who was in many respects the exemplary Roman and did...

There was no collective attitude of *the* Romans towards Eastern influence. Some like Cato despised it. Others like Scipio, loved it. I am not sure whether Cato represented what the majority of the...

Which way would be better then?

Obviously, you have to take into account how wealth is distributed - i.e. a country in which 80% of the population owns 10% of the wealth or earns 20% of the...

Was that the guy who lost Crete to the Ottomans and then essentially made a ruin out of the Parthenon by bombing the crap out of it? :)

Hahaha you're not the only one but you're certainly among a minority of English people - usually the well traveled, vaguely internationalist, middle classes.

No, not looking for the exact borders but the Holy Roman Empire did not include just modern Germany. It included parts of Italy, the Balkans, Central Europe & North Western Europe. So if you're gonna...

They are not Charlemagne's or Barbarossa's states.

Nation states in existence today (Poland, China, the US, etc).

Not modern and no.

Preach it, sister. Medievalists unite!

Seriously though, the High-Late Middle Ages weren't that bad. Let's not forget that not everything that is good and pure comes from the Enlightenment. Many...

NO.

The opposite is true IMO.

The Vikings didn't really ever write their own history. Our sources are mainly Christian monks who ofc despised the pagan Vikings. The image these monks managed...

And BTW, I do not agree with kamani and albanopolis, I do not hold their views at all and I understand why Jackson would respond the way he did (though I think he's as mistaken as they are)

I am not sure which people are you referring to. I'm talking about polls. And what you hear from the Greeks is not opposition to the EU, it's opposition to particular measures within the EU. When I'm...

The English (he responded to Jackson who's English) most definitely do not want that and never did. England has always been the most Eurosceptic country in the continent.

You make it sound as...

Of course I've heard of the Arvanites and I don't deny that parts of Southern Greece (mainly Attica and the Peloponnese) were settled by Albanians (I know "Byzantine" Emperors who wrote about the...

I am not sure how the fact that many Albanians migrated to Greece translates to Albanians and Greeks having a lot in common.

Albanian immigrants have not had an easy time in Greece (nor have they...

But why though...I mean what good would it do if, say, Holmes was executed? we know that the death penalty probably doesn't deter crime (so future mass murderers will be unaffected). We certainly...

This is like a four year old thread you resurrected and that is why links are "faulty". And the only one making up statistics here is you. You've provided no evidence whatever for your claims.

Was Schwarzenegger really less competent as a governor than his predecessors were?

Yes every nation voted for themselves as the most compassionate but that's not the whole story. When discussing "objectivity", you have to look at the difference between how you view yourself and how...

Heterosexual couples already do that. If you believe people should not be free to "sell" sperm or "rent" a womb then, okay, fine. But it's not something new, I don't think, and I am not sure...