Ancient Civilizations
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

The Active Life Let’s consider first the claim that old age denies us an active life. What kind of activities are we talking about? Don’t we mean the sort we ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Dougherty, Martin J [Dougherty, Martin J]

Queen Medb not only instigated the Cattle Raid of Cooley for spurious reasons, she also murdered her own sister. Years later, her sister’s son took vengeance when he killed her ...
( Category: Europe March 23,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Richard Alston [Alston, Richard]

FIGURE 5 Cleopatra: A head of Cleopatra depicting her in the tradition of Greek queens. Antony and Cleopatra is the story that has everything, but as a story, it risks ...
( Category: Rome March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-10-05 | Author:James K. Hoffmeier [Hoffmeier, James K.]

Marah and Elim As the text of Exodus 15:23 states, Marah derives its name from the bitter water reached after traveling three days through the desert of Shur without finding ...
( Category: Judaism March 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Gregory

Figure 20: The epicycle, the basic unit of Ptolemaic astronomy. The planet moves around the small circle, whose centre moves around the large circle, giving a combination of regular circular ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 20,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-12-18 | Author:John Romer

The century-long enlargement of an archaic rock shrine on Elephantine Island at Aswan, first under the three Intefs, then into the extended architecture of the temple of Mentuhotep II, which ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-23 | Author:Mark Silinsky [Silinsky, Mark]

Fashion in the Islamic World Those girls and women who escape the Caliphate cast aside their raven-colored coverings as soon as they can. This is what happened in summer 2016, ...
( Category: Terrorism March 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 1986-04-15 | Author:Ross E. Dunn [Dunn, Ross E.]

Mongol holocausts or no, Khurasan–Transoxiana remained to the landward commerce of Afro–Eurasia what the Arabian Sea was to the monsoon trade: the complex crossroads of trails connecting all the major ...
( Category: Europe March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:David Miles

Ireland In Ireland most archaeologists were reluctant to accept the theory that mobile native hunter-gatherers gradually adopted Neolithic traits, and for a very good reason. For a long time they ...
( Category: Prehistory March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Benton

The search for pattern Does history follow rules or not? In matters of human affairs, some historians see a horrible inevitability in the rise and fall of nations. Countries and ...
( Category: Rivers March 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

So I went on. ‘In gaiety and wit,’ I continued, ‘Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, son of Lucius, outdid all his contemporaries and his predecessors as well.3 His oratory was ...
( Category: Elections & Political Process March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Cicero

PART TWO HOW TO LIVE CHAPTER FOUR A PRACTICAL CODE OF BEHAVIOUR (ON DUTIES · III) No one will ever write anything more wise, more true, or more useful. From ...
( Category: Medieval March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-27 | Author:Marcus Cicero

67 CICERO TO ATTICUS Formiae, 1 March 49 My clerk’s hand will serve as an indication of my ophthalmia and likewise as an excuse for brevity, not that there is ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Cassius Dio [Dio, Cassius]

BOOK 38 τάδε ἔνεστιν ἐν τῷ τριακοστῷ ὀγδόῳ τῶν Δίωνος Ῥωμαϊκῶν α. ὡς ἐστασίασαν Καῖσαρ καὶ Βίβουλος. β. ως Κικέρων ἔφυγεν. γ. ὡς Κικέρωνα ἐπὶ τῇ φυγῇ Φιλίσκος παρεμυθήσατο. δ. ...
( Category: Rome March 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Peter H. Wilson

Table 10. Imperial Taxation, 1521–1613 Although far above what previous emperors had received, this amount still fell far short of Charles’s burgeoning expenses. The 1544 grant provided only 3.7 per ...
( Category: Germany February 28,2017 )