Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...

The “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series by Rick Riordan is something many of my friends have been begging me to read, so ...

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