Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first ...

There’s a little more context surrounding their lives in Sicily. The prince’s nature ... forgivable in providing a look at the new rulers. The series’s expansion of the portrait of the ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

Netflix’s The Leopard reimagines Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel as a lavish period drama about Sicily’s crumbling ... s longest-reigning female ruler. The Great is satirical in its ...

Fitting a novel‘s plot into two hours is an undertaking like jamming Cinderella‘s stepsister’s foot into the glass slipper: You have to hack off toes or full limbs. But this is the age of ...

Both films are a big deal in Malta, to which Gozo belongs, as large parts were filmed at various locations around the archipelago. Indeed, this is a place ...

He had been a well-liked ruler, a lover of the arts and generous to those in his ... commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (the second wife Francis II and the recipient also ...

In Sicily, for instance ... But perfuming ancient statues wasn’t limited to statues of deities. Rulers were often anointed ...

In Sicily, for instance, the statue of Artemis was ritualistically ... But perfuming ancient statues wasn’t limited to statues of deities. Rulers were often anointed with pleasant scents as well. For ...

Hidden in an unassuming monastery in Palermo, Sicily lie more than 1,000 mummified corpses ... wide – the same as a standard ruler – earning it a reputation as ‘the world’s most dangerous hike’. While ...

There was a Parliament in Sicily, in Naples, and the German states ... but there’s a famous similar document called the Joyous Entry of Brabant, which each ruler of what is today Belgium and the ...

Some were even perfumed, in an attempt to transform them into the lifelike embodiments of gods, goddesses, and rulers ... fragrant oils and ointments. In Sicily, for instance, a statue of ...