Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Paul Stephenson [STEPHENSON, PAUL]

A common vision? It is clear from the passage quoted in full above (p. 183) that Eusebius (VC I.28), and following him the fifth-century Christian historians Sozomen (I.3) and Socrates ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Lindsay Powell

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
epub, azw |eng | 2018-07-06 | Author:Grace Cole [Grace Cole]

The Four Emperors Rome was again in upheaval. Nero’s death marked the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of emperors, which began with Augustus and lasted nearly 100 years. The next ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Matyszak [Philip Matyszak]

The Greek east For years now the Orontes [a river in Lebanon and Syria] has been disgorging into the Tiber. A character of Juvenal’s complains about immigrants in Satires 3.62 ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs May 28,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-05-27 | Author:Thucydides

1. As to the temple and oracle of the Pythian Apollo, we are agreed that whosoever will shall have access to it, without fraud or fear, according to the usages ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:John D Grainger

Chapter 9 Kings and War The ancient sources imply that the main business of kings was warfare, though this is more the result of their omission of other activities than ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:Thucydides [Thucydides]

BOOK SEVEN After repairing their ships Gylippus and Pythen sailed down the 1 coast from Taras to Epizephyrian Locri. They now learnt the true situation, that Syracuse was not yet ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-31 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

Script Stratagems that Bring Success “If things go according to plan,” said Gobryas, anticipating me, “the commander will admit Mandarus and all his men. He might even beg the eunuch ...
( Category: History May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:Aristotle

-11- The chapters begins with a definition of pleasure,. In order to supply propositions, about pleasure., Aristotle shows its connections to other mental conditions, especially desire and imagination. The rest ...
( Category: Rhetoric May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Ann Wroe [WROE, ANN]

Medieval theologians followed Orpheus into a lower world already licked by fire. As an enlightened soul – as Intellect itself – he had no business to be there, among small ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 27,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Arrian

BOOK FIVE In the country on Alexander’s route between the river Cophen and the Indus lay the city of Nysa, supposed to have been founded by Dionysus, at the time ...
( Category: Anthologies May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:F. S. Naiden

Anonymous color drawing of the western bank of the Beas River, 1848. Illustrated London News. in early fall, the army marched back to the place on the Jhelum where they ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

Maurice did not enjoy his Nubian night. When I returned from the King’s Arms, I found the would-be seducer sitting on our two-seat settee almost exactly where I had left ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers May 27,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy

( Category: History May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-03 | Author:Theodore Ayrault Dodge [Dodge, Theodore Ayrault]

To reach the Aufidus, Hannibal must turn the Roman position unobserved. This, by skillful and well-concealed movements and forced marches, he managed to do, reached Cannæ and seized it, with ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs May 27,2019 )