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...That’s started to change, as researchers have come to understand the vital role that everything from seabirds to cicadas and spiders has in sustaining the natural environment....
...Not much has been heard of Illyria, a pre-Roman civilisation in the Balkans, in the last two millennia, and our sense of them is somewhat hazy....
...Later, his wife is attacked by a “hideous cicada” — a portent of the hostility with which their family will be treated by some Romans....
...Cicadas are making their repetitive racket, the Aegean Sea is sparkling in the afternoon sunshine and I am halfway up a vertical rock face clinging on to a rope for dear life....
...The cicadas were out in force, but they were not loud enough to drown out thunderclaps during lunch. “There is no Plan B,” I heard Albiera Antinori say with a skyward frown....
...I loved driving behind the road trains carrying aubergines, through the gaze of hawks and the songs of cicadas, between spaghetti-Western service stations with perfect coffee and the farmers smoking in the...
...On this preview, however, we arrived in a sandy-floored Fiat Panda, traversing the sweet-scented woods full of chirping cicadas and hairpin bends that dot the north-east of the island....
...Exactly how long wine has been produced in the Bekaa is opaque, but the fact that the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius commissioned the enormous Temple of Bacchus for Baalbek (then Heliopolis) in the mid-second...
...The sun set to the sound of cowbells and the scent of crushed thyme as I walked a Roman road up meadows dotted with oak trees....
...So exquisite is that finale, it reduces us all to silence, the only sounds the whirr of the cicadas and the clink of masts....
...There is a saying in Provence that no good work is done when the cicada sings....
...The Roman bee The Greeks and Romans adored bees and their names for them have been handed down: Melissa is the Greek word for a honey bee and the Latin Apis mellifera is the technical term for a honey bee...
...As the sun goes down I enjoy one of Tourelles’ customary al fresco tastings, sipping superlative Syrah du Liban and Marquis des Beys from a wine crate plonked under a tree....
...Byzantine ramparts, built on Roman foundations, skirt Ano Poli....
...Made about 1810, the pair is robustly modelled on classical Greek and Roman prototypes....
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