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Death to Tyrants!
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Teegarden, David

Conclusion The events analyzed in this chapter underscore the importance for pro-democrats to maintain their threat credibility. A dramatic, foundational “moment”—such as a public trial or oath against tyrants—certainly was ...
( Category: Democracy May 30,2015 )
Sophist
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * SOPHIST by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Theodorus, Theaetetus, Socrates. An Eleatic Stranger, whom Theodorus and Theaetetus bring with them. The younger Socrates, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 30,2015 )
From The Holy Mountain
epub |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

'Several times.' 'Who by? I thought this part of Beirut escaped the worst of the war.' 'The first time, in '75, it was by the Palestinians. Then there was a ...
( Category: Travel May 29,2015 )
Cratylus
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Cratylus, by Plato * * * Cratylus A free ebook from http://manybooks.net/ Cratylus Table of Contents
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 29,2015 )
The Greek Way by Hamilton Edith
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Hamilton, Edith [Hamilton, Edith]

A king sat on the rocky brow That looks on sea-born Salamis, And ships by thousands lay below, And men by nations—all were his. He counted them at break of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2015 )
The Parthenon Enigma by Joan Breton Connelly
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Joan Breton Connelly

Death of Prokris, showing her “bird-soul” leaving her body while her husband Kephalos and father Erechtheus watch. Column krater, by Hephaistos Painter, ca. 440 B.C. (illustration credit ill.103) I would ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments April 5,2015 )
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy by John R. Hale
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-03 | Author:John R. Hale

THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION, 415-413 B.C. He went peacefully, leaving Nicias and Lamachus in charge of the expedition. At one of the landing places on the Italian coast, however, Alcibiades eluded ...
( Category: Naval April 5,2015 )
The Wisdom of the Myths by Luc Ferry
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Luc Ferry

I. Tales of hubris: the case of those who “cheat death,” Asclepius (Aesculapius) and Sisyphus Within the category of stories addressing the tribulations to which mortals expose themselves by transgressing ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 24,2015 )
Wandering Greeks by Garland Robert
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Garland, Robert

The Origins of Economic Migration We have evidence that city-states were permitting economic migrants to settle permanently within their borders from the sixth century onward, though the legal status of ...
( Category: Greece March 22,2015 )
Complete Works of Xenophon (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics) by Xenophon
epub |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Xenophon

CYROPAEDIA - Κύρου παιδεία CONTENTS Βιβλίον αʹ Βιβλίον βʹ Βιβλίον γʹ Βιβλίον δʹ Βιβλίον εʹ Βιβλίον ςʹ Βιβλίον ζʹ Βιβλίον ηʹ Βιβλίον αʹ [1.1.1] Ἔννοιά ποθ᾽ ἡμῖν ἐγένετο ὅσαι δημοκρατίαι ...
( Category: Greece March 21,2015 )
The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Charles William Chadwick Oman [Oman, Charles William Chadwick]

Representation Of The Madonna Enthroned. (From a Byzantine Ivory.) (From "L'Art Byzantin." Par Charles Bayet. Paris, Quantin, 1883.) Leo died in 740, leaving the throne to his son, [pg 196] ...
( Category: Greece March 14,2015 )
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Thucydides

BOOK V CHAPTER XV Tenth Year of the War—Death of Cleon and Brasidas—Peace of Nicias The next summer the truce for a year ended, after lasting until the Pythian games. ...
( Category: Greece February 13,2015 )
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
epub |eng | 2007-08-22 | Author:E.M. Berens [Berens, E.M.]

CONSUS. Consus was the god of secret counsel. The Romans believed that when an idea developed itself spontaneously within the mind of an individual, it was Consus who had prompted ...
( Category: Greece February 3,2015 )
Ancient Greece by Thomas R. Martin
epub |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Thomas R. Martin

SEVEN Culture and Society in Classical Athens As mentioned in the previous chapter, the prosperity and cultural achievements of Athens in the mid-fifth century B.C. have led to this period ...
( Category: Greece January 21,2015 )
The Landmark Herodotus by Robert B. Strassler
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 ...
( Category: Greece January 6,2015 )

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