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Ancient and modern

Why the Ancient Greeks didn’t have middle-aged spread

A different way of looking at a lifespan

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

A drug has been invented to halt what is known as middle-aged spread. But it would be so much better if there was no such thing as middle age in the first place. After all, the Greeks had no such concept: why should we?

The people one feels sorry for here are the early Sumerian kings (modern Iraq).

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