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The first seizure

Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.

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Naked, not nude

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.

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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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  • Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London
  • Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London
  • Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London
  • Bacchus, Roman God of wine, mosaic pavement, Roman
  • A Roman mosaic (detail depicting a physician and patient ?), displayed at the Archeological museum of Algiers, Algeria. Photograph, 1940/1970 (?), of a mosaic detail.
  • The nativity, 12thC mosaic showing swaddling and bathing
  • A Roman mosaic representing a skeleton reclining. Photograph by Edizione Alinari.
  • Mosaic of Saint Cosmas and Damian being presented to Christ, 6th century.
  • Ostia, Italy: interior of a ruined villa, featuring wall paintings and mosaic floors. Photograph by Chauffourier, 1928.
  • A Roman villa under excavation: two men stand on a platform looking at a mosaic floor. Photograph, 1860/1880.
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