Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | | Author:Ellen Meiksins Wood

The difference between these types, then, lies above all in the extent to which they exercise their right to participate in politics at the centre of the polis, a right ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Ellen Meiksins Wood

The Culture of Property: Stoic Philosophy in Rome The topography of a social world shaped by a distinctive property regime is visible also in Roman philosophy, particularly in its variants ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-30 | Author:James Mace [Mace, James]

Ingiomerus could not see what was happening in front of him. The shouts and cries of his warriors sounded different. No longer did they sound confident and assured of victory. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 5,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:James Mace

Two days later, Artorius was observing the morning drill exercises one of the centuries was performing on the drill field. Working in close proximity with the cohort had given him ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Peter Heather [Heather, Peter]

We do not doubt that it occurs to the thoughts of all men, that nothing is so necessary as that the strength of a numerous army should be prepared for ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Plutarch

He begat children against Apollo’s wishes.96 When Marcus Gellius, who was thought to be the son of a slave, had read some letters to the Senate in a shrill, loud ...
( Category: Historical October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:John Julius Norwich

Athena and Poseidon on a red-figure krater from south Italy. Traditionally the two deities fought for ‘ownership’ of Athens – Athena eventually winning out. By linking the city to the ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-29 | Author:Paul A. Zoch [Zoch, Paul A.]

Page 152 hero and made him consul. In one of his speeches, Marius told the common people: "Those men, they're so arrogant, they have it all wrong [in thinking that ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 4,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Eric H. Cline [Cline, Eric H.]

Tiryns Just a few kilometers from Mycenae, the excavations at Tiryns in the Argolid region of mainland Greece have been ongoing since the days of Heinrich Schliemann in the late ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 3,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth Lacovara

Leaping Laelaps is a prescient portrayal of dinosaurs, the likes of which would not be seen again for another hundred years. The painting is imbued with the Darwinian view of ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 30,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Guy de la Bédoyère

( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw |eng | | Author:Neil Oliver

CHAPTER SEVEN THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY ‘Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.’ John B. L. Soule It was already dark when the boat slipped out of ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Creighton, Scott [Creighton, Scott]

Fig. 8.5. Quarry marks in section of Lady Arbuthnot’s Chamber (north wall) In whatever chamber we care to scrutinize, we are confronted time and time again by a number of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 27,2017 )
epub, azw3, azw |eng | | Author:Robert Wernick

The Vikings were fond of portraying themselves as the ultimate warriors. And quite possibly they were. But there was much more to them than this one-dimensional image. They were, in ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Taken at the flood

( Category: Mystery September 27,2017 )