Greece
epub |eng | 2016-06-29 | Author:Michael Scott
PART III RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN A CONNECTED WORLD TIMELINE c. 563 BCE (or 480 BCE): Birth of the Buddha in India 150 BCE: King Menander (Milinda) converted to Buddhism by ...
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Greece
April 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robin Waterfield [Waterfield, Robin]
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War In 446 Athens and Sparta entered into a thirty-year peace, which did nothing to stop each side developing its military potential. The final insults ...
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Greece
April 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:Anthony Everitt
“Dog-eyed” was a cruel parody of Hera’s usual Homeric epithet, “ox-eyed.” Aspasia was reported to be the madam of a brothel on the side, and procured freeborn Athenian women for ...
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Greece
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epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Aristotle; Kenny, Anthony;
RELATION OF WISDOM TO UNDERSTANDING What is the use of wisdom and philosophy? 12. One might wonder whether these virtues are of any use. Philosophical understanding does not focus on ...
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Ethics & Morality
September 8,2016 )
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, ...
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Greece
June 14,2016 )
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 ...
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Greece
June 9,2016 )
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Greece
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Stephan Weaver [Weaver, Stephan]
Temple of Zeus (1999) The master of marble and stone, Myron, structured the Discus Thrower. Hippocrates, ‘the Father of Medicine,’ began his practice. Historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides rose ...
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Greece
March 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]
[Pg 154] Crœsus decides in favor of Delphi. His costly gifts. Of course, Crœsus decided that the Delphic oracle was the one that he must rely upon for guidance in ...
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Greece
February 23,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Alexander Hammond [Hammond, Alexander]
THE TRUTH GAME They’d dated twice. Not even proper dates really, more like impromptu rendezvous. Even that had been a struggle. She was just so distant. Aloof, almost, but not ...
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Greece
February 15,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Roberts, Jennifer T. [Roberts, Jennifer T.]
Inevitably, Herodotus was somewhat prone to falling into generalization. It was easy for him to seize on individual details he had observed and extrapolate wildly. One can see him in ...
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Greece
January 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]
10 THEBES This has come from my counsel: Sparta has cut the hair of her glory: Messene takes her children in: a wreath of the spears of Thebe has crowned ...
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Greece
January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Philip Matyszak
A legionary (top left), Roman officer (bottom left) and cavalryman (top right) from the altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, discovered in the Campus Martius in Rome and now in the Louvre, ...
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Greece
December 18,2015 )
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