According to the RAE dictionary, sybarite defines himself as a native of Sybaris , city of the Gulf of Taranto (Italy) founded by the Achaeans in 720 BC. and famous for the wealth and refinement of its inhabitants. Hence, this term has remained to designate people who love exquisite pleasures. In t
Karl Marxs phrase is well known, which says that history always repeats itself twice, first as a tragedy and then as a farce. And signs are beginning to appear that the same is happening with the problem created by the call, by the Catalan government, for a self-determination referendum for October
Athens is the only place, the proud statesman Pericles put it in a nutshell, where an apolitical person is not considered a quiet citizen, but a bad citizen. In the beginning there was an uprising Between 508 and 322 BC the Athenians for the first time no longer obeyed a king, no noble caste, no ty
In 428, Genseric he was elected king of the Vandals. A year later, he organized the largest non-Roman naval operation in late antiquity, shipping 80,000 people – of whom only 15,000 were warriors – off the shores of Carteia (Algeciras) and transferring them to the beaches of Ceuta. In a very short t