Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Giannis Stamatellos [Stamatellos, Giannis]

Empedocles followed Heraclitus in regarding human thos as determined by physical structure and habitual behavior. The wise man is the one who recognizes the true words that advance thought and ...
( Category: Data Modeling & Design June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-03 | Author:Auerbach, Patrick [Auerbach, Patrick]

Before Sisyphus submitted to Ares, he directed his wife to leave his body unburied and not to perform any of the traditional funeral ceremonies. When Sisyphus arrived in the Underworld, ...
( Category: Greece June 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Peters [Peters, Elizabeth]

I leaned against the wall, holding my bruised ribs and struggling to control the emotion induced by this tender parting. A gentle hand touched my shoulder, and I beheld Mary ...
( Category: Victorian June 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Jean Manco

Now the disease in Byzantium ran a course of four months, and its greatest virulence lasted about three. And at first the deaths were a little more than the normal, ...
( Category: Prehistory June 13,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Thomas Cahill

1 The phrase “the violent bear it away” fascinated the twentieth-century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O’Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O’Connor’s surname connects her ...
( Category: Greece June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Jack Lynch [Lynch, Jack]

and will miss the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica… . But we live in a complex world, too big for a few hundred people to cover completely, and too fast-moving for print ...
( Category: History May 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bronwen Riley

CHANGING FASHIONS The fullers will have been hard at work in the run-up to Julius Severus’s appearance in town, as local dignitaries prepare their outfits for the visit. The British ...
( Category: England May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Masterson, Mark; Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin; Robson, James

Taking the day of freedom away from women and girls In the Iliad and Odyssey, the overriding emphasis of populace-ravaging warfare is on the forcible seizing of “women” alive, that ...
( Category: Sexuality May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:D. M. Murdock & Acharya S [Murdock, D. M. & S, Acharya]

The miracles of the virgin birth and physical resurrection of Jesus; the miracles of giving sight to the blind and of raising the dead, the descent into Hades, and the ...
( Category: Christianity May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward F. Malkowski [Malkowski, Edward F.]

THE GREAT PYRAMID’S INTERNAL DESIGN With its bizarre configuration of internal chambers, passageways, and shafts, the Great Pyramid’s internal design is perhaps the biggest ancient mystery to be solved. Egyptologist ...
( Category: Egypt May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tim Everson

SHIELDS Although helmets and armour were worn by warriors before and after the introduction of hoplite warfare, it was the hoplite shield that helped to bring about the change. From ...
( Category: Greece May 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:John Warry

■ Hannibal’s Victories Publius Cornelius Scipio, consul in 218 BC, having dispatched his own army into Spain under the command of his brother Gnaeu, returned with exemplary speed to North ...
( Category: Greece May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-01 | Author:Paul A. Rahe

CHAPTER 7 Salamis A man, a Greek, coming from the Athenian host, Told your son Xerxes these things: That when dusk arrives and, then, black night, The Hellenes would not ...
( Category: Greece May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Thomas R. Martin

Figure 18. The gladiators shown in this mosaic are armed and armored according to their different styles of fighting and their names are recorded. The most exciting gladiatorial matches often ...
( Category: Rome May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Imhausen, Annette

NEW KINGDOM Many of today’s most famous kings and queens of Egypt ruled during the New Kingdom (1550–1069 BCE), rendering it one of the best-known periods of ancient Egypt in ...
( Category: History April 29,2016 )