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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
| Anna Faherty
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
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The castration effect
| Gavin FrancisBenjamin Gilbert
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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You, a thousand years ago
| Jack Hartnell
Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
| Briony Hudson
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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Naked, not nude
| Caroline VoutFunmi Lijadu
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.