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Did Romans and Greeks have Abortions and Contraceptives?

Roman Empire Times 18 Mar 2025
Its use persisted beyond antiquity—medieval Latin texts such as the Antidotarium Nicolai contained recipes for abortifacients featuring Queen Anne’s Lace, along with pennyroyal and birthwort.
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Written by Celtic monks 1,200 years ago, this rare Irish treasure is tucked away in ...

Michigan Live 16 Mar 2025
The religious text brings medieval art, religion and culture to the modern world ... An Illuminated Manuscript of the Medieval Age. The Book of Kells contains the four Latin gospels of the New Testament ... The Book of Kells' story is one of survival.
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Ovid’s Eternal Verses: The Roman Poet of Love, Myth, and Exile

Roman Empire Times 16 Mar 2025
... how classical texts, including Ovid’s, were preserved and reshaped in the medieval world) – to describe the 12th and 13th centuries when Ovid was widely studied and imitated.
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Discovering Devin Jacobsen, and America, Through a New Short Story Collection

The Village Voice 10 Mar 2025
... “Tauroctony,” written in the style of a medieval poem, and “Dagonet,” which is prefaced with a passage from the 15th-century Le Morte D’Arthur and tells of a Louis C.K.–comedian’s MeToo-era downfall.
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Why We are All Greeks: Three Times the World Adopted Greek Principles

Greek Reporter 09 Mar 2025
... (translations into Latin by William of Moerbeke of Greek and Roman texts collected in Byzantine libraries) and the earlier medieval writers who were also influenced by Ancient Greek thought, namely.
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