Some thoughts
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Dark academia aesthetic is more than a trend
Aesthetic academia is a style in which everyone can find himself as well as a being part of a sophisticated community.
Suits, shirts, cardigans and elegant leather shoes, also big glasses? Yes, this is part of this style.
But it is not the main point. Most important is an attitude that is shown and underlined by sophisticated things. From Greek classics to E. A. Poe and the Cambridge university architecture.
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Greek statues painted?
Ancient sculptures were not white, but colorful. The colors have simply faded during the centuries. If sculptures with traces of paint were found, they were said to have been painted later by barbarians or that they were a relic from an earlier more primitive stage. Ideologies and politics
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A 2500 year old Pandemic and the goddess of hygiene "Hygeia"
What was the role of the goddess of hygiene and health Hygeia (Hygieia) in the 5th century BC pandemic that hit Athens, known as "the Attic plague"? The "father of historiography" Thucydides (around 450-400BC) wrote about it. The details sound familiar!
