epub |eng | 2007-01-05 | Author:Robert B. Strassler [Strassler, Robert B.]

5.89 498? ATHENS The Athenians receive a Delphic oracle advising them to wait thirty years for vengeance against Aegina. So that is how the enmity of the Athenians toward the ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

A SOLDIER OF ATHENS The ablest of the Greek generals was Miltiades. He determined to attack the enemy at once, and when his day of command came, on the 12th ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Vincent Azoulay, Janet Lloyd & Paul Cartledge

FIGURE 9. Ostraka of Cimon (ca. 462 B.C.). From S. Brenne, 1994, “Ostraka and the Process of Ostrakophoria,” in W.D.E. Coulson et al., eds., The Archaeology of Athens and Attica ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Hugh Bowden [Bowden, Hugh]

Chapter 5 Pharaoh: Alexander and Egypt Alexander entered Egypt late in 332, facing no opposition from the inhabitants or from the Persian satrap Mazaces, who had too few soldiers to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Hans Josef Klauck

At a later date, the Church fathers drew above all on the Bible in their polemic against astrology (cf. Riedinger). The very fact that they continually had to fight a ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

[2]The Romans continued to use this formation effectively through the years of their republic and in the expansion of their Empire. [3]Alcibiades’ reputation for lack of discipline and unscrupulousness was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon the earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality, The hand ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Herodotus

BOOK V THE IONIANS REVOLT, THE ATHENIANS ASSIST 1. IN THE MEANTIME THE Persians who had been left behind in Europe by Dareios, of whom Megabazos171 was the commander, had ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Plato

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION CRITO

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Epictetus & Robert Dobbin

II 21 On inconsistency [1] People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance. No one, at any rate,∗ will admit to ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Scott, Michael

Figure 10.1. Bust of a man of Delphi, often identified as Plutarch but now labeled simply as a philosopher type, dating to the second century AD (© EFA/Ph.Collet [Guide du ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Herodotus & Carolyn Dewald & Robin Waterfield

It was the conjunction of all these events that made the Argives afraid. Under these circumstances they decided to make use of the enemy’s crier—that is, to copy the Lacedaemonians ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-26 | Author:Jeff Champion [Champion, Jeff]

Crab Apple – Malus sylvestris ‘When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian’s nose looks red ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon

VII After this they marched into the country of the Taochians five stages—thirty parasangs—and provisions failed; for the Taochians lived in strong places, into which they had carried up all ...