Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
/u/idontplayoboe made an excellent response to this post on the relationship between Greek and Roman pantheons
/u/BaffledPlato answered whether or not polytheists believed that some religions were "false"
/u/Iphikrates answered this question on the ransoming of soldiers in ancient greece
Thanks for the well-written and well-researched answers!
Edit:
I forgot to add this gem from /u/Iphrikrates on I heard of claims that the Greek City States were "proto-socialist". What are they referring to?
My special picks from this week:
/u/De_Von answered How influenced was HP Lovecraft by the politics of his time?
/u/AlviseFalier answered What was Monaco like in terms of governance pre modern era?
/u/agentdcf on Steve King & the contributions of Western Civ
Rundown:
/u/thefairyguineapig answered "There are huge gaps between islands in the Pacific, what methods did the Polynesians/Islanders use to discover them and to stay on course in a trip between two islands they already knew existed? Do we know how many/what percentage were lost at sea?"
/u/TenMinuteHistory on "799,455 people were executed in the USSR during Stalin's tenure. How many of these did he approve of? How many did he personally order?"
I got some great responses to my question on the relationship between Mycenaean Greece and the Ancient Near East, but /u/JoshoBrouwers answer was particularly in-depth.