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

(11) See Lys. xix. "de bon. Arist." 19 foll.; and Hicks, 71, "Honours to Dionysios I. and his court"; Grote, "H. G." ix. 453. (12) Mod. Kalamata. But Conon had ...

epub |eng | | Author:Hornblower, Simon

Figure 14.1 The temple of Artemis, Ephesus Figure 14.2 The temple of Athena (reconstructed) at Priene THE EFFECTS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR Figure 14.3 Labraunda: general view well as socially ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-06-11 | Author:Tom Holland [Holland, Tom]

Clearing the Decks The notion that any man had only to clap his hands to have a canal dug, a bridge built or a whole continent summoned teeming into arms ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Desmond, William [Desmond, William]

Document Outline Cover Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Ancient Cynics and their times 2. Renunciation of custom 3. A life according to nature 4. Chance, fate, fortune and the self ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

33 The World of Cicero Suppose I manage to make even Caesar who is riding on the crest of the wave just now a better citizen, am I harming the ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Colin Wilson [Wilson, Colin]

This great revolution in human thinking came about, as everyone knows, because a young naturalist named Charles Darwin set out, in December 1831, to sail to South America on a ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-04 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

5 I shall now tell how he made his associates more efficient. Believing that self-discipline was a good thing for anyone to have who intended to achieve a creditable result, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Two different Carthaginian commanders, Himlico and Maharbal, were credited with defeating barbarian tribes with poisoned wine. According to Polyaenus, Himilco, a “pertinacious soldier” who owed most of his victories to ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Guerber, H. A. [Guerber, H. A.]

CHAPTER LVII The Earthquake CIMON, as you have already seen, was very wealthy, and as generous as he was rich. Besides spending so much for the improvement of the city, ...