Ancient Civilizations
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Plutarch

• He was the most virtuous citizen, one of the greatest generals, and the most popular consul Rome ever had. As he had taken more care to transmit his virtues ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Guthrie, W. K. C. & James Warren [Guthrie, W. K. C.]

Notes 1 I am assuming that the myth told by Protagoras in Plato’s dialogue of that name is truly mythical in the sense that the divine apparatus can be stripped ...
( Category: Philosophy June 14,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-19 | Author:Charles Montagu Doughty [Doughty, Charles Montagu]

SHEYKH NASIR ES-SM1RY. 351 among them, that Ibn Saud would withdraw from these parts ; and then would Ibn Kashid return home. Their parleying had not been without some glorious ...
( Category: Asia June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Dick Teresi

6 GEOLOGY: Stories of Earth Itself IN some ways, geology is the most evident of sciences, with the processes of sedimentation and erosion etched in the land around us. Modern ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Simon Price; Peter Thonemann

Map 25. The western Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. From a conscious Roman point of view, the explanation of Roman growth was much simpler. Romans held that ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Stephen Kershaw

1 Gibbon, E., op. cit., chapter II, part IV. 2 Gilbert, W. S., No. 16: SONG (Lord Mountararat and Chorus), ‘When Britain really ruled the waves’, from Iolanthe, 1882. 3 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 13,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1961-01-02 | Author:Jacques Soustelle [Soustelle, Jacques]

and gem-stones; and above all agriculture. Of course there was no question of a Mexican noble working on the land like 'a labourer or a gardener'; the suggestion is that ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Baikie, James [Baikie, James]

CHAPTER VII The Soldier-State of Greece ONCE upon a time, so Herodotus, the gossipy old Greek historian, tells us, there were twelve kings in Egypt, eleven of whom united to ...
( Category: History June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Renfrew [Renfrew, Colin]

X represents Y in context C. In linguistics, X is sometimes referred to as the signifier, and Y is the thing signified. This simple definition is a convenient one, and, ...
( Category: Archaeology June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-04-15 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]

model of a civic choice that is both free and determined' ( Loraux 1986a: 104). But Perikles' epitaphios was political in a second, narrower sense as well. It was a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1986-08-02 | Author:John Boardman & Jasper Griffin & Oswyn Murray [Boardman, John & Griffin, Jasper & Murray, Oswyn]

Family The Greek family was monogamous and nuclear, being composed in essence of husband and wife with their children; but Greek writers tend to equate it with the household as ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Wayne Coates

CHIA-COCONUT SPREAD MAKES ¾ CUPS Rich, slightly sweet, and immensely satisfying, this nutritious spread can be slathered on bread and crackers, used as a dip, spooned onto pancakes and waffles, ...
( Category: Diets & Weight Loss June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Church, Alfred J. [Church, Alfred J.]

CHAPTER XI Of Certain Other Kings of Egypt AFTER Rhampsinitus there reigned a certain Cheops; and this king did very wickedly, forbidding the people to do sacrifice to the Gods, ...
( Category: Ancient June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Hodges, George [Hodges, George]

II. The Monks of Annesi In the middle of the fourth century, at a time when there were no communities of monks outside of Egypt, two young men at the ...
( Category: Church History June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Church, Alfred J. [Church, Alfred J.]

CHAPTER XII The Plots of Juno WHEN Juno saw that the Trojans were come to the land of Italy, and that they were building houses in which to dwell, and ...
( Category: Greece June 8,2017 )