The towering Greek philosopher and poet Homer described olive oil as “liquid gold” and the Greek tragedian extraordinaire Sophocles called olives “our sweet silvered wet nurse”. Olive oil is the oil ...

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The first is ΟΔΥCCEOC, the Greek genitive (i.e. possessive or attributive) case of Odysseus which suggests a writer referring to the location as the hero’s palace or temple.

Hygiene and Religion in Ancient Greece As the saying goes “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” but the for the ancient Greeks there were more literal religious dimensions associated with hygiene.

Greek mythology ’s Hecabe (Hecuba) and Polyxena by Merry-Joseph Blondel. Credit: Merry-Joseph Blondel (France, Paris, 1781-1853), Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Ancient Greek mythology is one of the ...