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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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] ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...