Greece
epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Stephen English [English, Stephen]
Corcyra was a mercenary’s paradise; it was wealthy and undefended, and the Spartans seemingly gave their mercenaries free reign. Members of the expedition of the 10,000 dreamed of a situation ...
( Category:
Greece
January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:Stephen Fry [Fry, Stephen]
THE WATER DRAGON For three days and three nights Cadmus, Harmonia, and their train of loyal Tyrians followed the heifer with the half-moon markings as it lumbered up and down ...
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Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-03 | Author:J.C. McKeown
Seneca practiced the frugality that he preached so vehemently. Actually, he rather overdid it, for when Nero forced him to commit suicide, he had considerable difficulty in killing himself: Seneca ...
( Category:
Greece
January 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Barbara Graziosi
Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
December 30,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Matyszak, Philip [Matyszak, Philip]
Eris (Discordia) There is Eris, the one who incites the evils of war and butchery. She is brutal and unloved by all, but sometimes through necessity, or because the immortal ...
( Category:
Greece
December 17,2019 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:E. M. Forster
27 Maurice’s grandfather was an example of the growth that may come with old age. Throughout life he had been the ordinary business man — hard and touchy — but ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
October 4,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Macgregor, Mary [Macgregor, Mary]
CHAPTER LIII The Delian League FOR at least forty years Sparta was the chief city in Greece, and she was the head of the league which bound the cities of ...
( Category:
Biographies
June 8,2017 )
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 ...
( Category:
Greece
April 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Toner
A mosaic of a skeleton from Pompeii Many of the bodies from both towns display what is called the ‘pugilistic’ position: that is they have their arms stuck out like ...
( Category:
History
April 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-18 | Author:Rodney Castleden
A Mycenaean warrior on an ivory plaque found on Delos. Dating from 1250 BC, it shows a warrior proudly bearing a spear and a figure-of-eight shield. He is wearing a ...
( Category:
Greece
March 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Allan Bloom
BOOK IX “Well,” I said, “the tyrannic man himself remains to be considered—how he is transformed out of the democratic man, and, once come into being, what sort of man ...
( Category:
Democracy
December 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Rhodes, P. J.
The Origins of the Common Peace When the Peloponnesian War ended, Sparta was committed to the unqualified return of the Asiatic Greeks to Persia if the treaty of 411 was ...
( Category:
Historical
June 16,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-25 | Author:Cumont, Franz [Cumont, Franz]
[p. 54] principle of the sovereignty of the people, the original form of Cæsarism, was substituted a reasoned belief in supernatural influences. The emperor is the image of the Sun ...
( Category:
Astrology
February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:John R. Hale [Hale, John R.]
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:
History & Theory
May 29,2014 )
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