epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Robin Lane Fox [Fox, Robin Lane]

33 The World of Cicero Suppose I manage to make even Caesar who is riding on the crest of the wave just now a better citizen, am I harming the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Kenny, Anthony [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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Aristotle

P THE ATHLOTHETAE (Chapter 60) Having completed his survey of officials appointed annually by lot our author turns to officials of other kinds, in this chapter a board which was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-27 | Author:Plato

THE RIGHT USE OF LEISURE Now to deal with how this doctrine should be taught and [803a] handed on. What method of instruction should we use? Who should be taught, ...

epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

14. The Mantineans, then, were the first to appeal to him. And when he crept into the city by night, they expelled the Achaean garrison with his help, and then ...

mobi |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:The Lives of the Noble Grecians;Romans, Volume II

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS HAVlNG completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of ...

epub |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS HAVlNG completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1973-09-26 | Author:Plutarch

7 NICIAS [c. 470 – 413 B.C.] THERE is a true parallel, I believe, between the lives of Nicias and Crassus,1 and between the disasters of the Sicilian and the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Plutarch & Robin Waterfield & Philip A. Stadter

[79] With these last words to his family he climbed on board the boat. It was a long way from the trireme to land, and since none of the men ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

(5) See Wesley's anthem, Eccles. xliv. 1, "Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." Per. All that you say, Socrates, is most true, but do ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

C.1. Cyrus' generosity: he is not cold, not incapable of soft pleasure, but too pre-occupied with greater things. On the whole, if a hedonist, this type of man, a hedonist ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Xenophon & Robin Waterfield & Tim Rood [Xenophon & Waterfield, Robin & Rood, Tim]

BOOK FIVE [1] After the games, there was a meeting to plan the rest of their journey. The first to get to his feet was Leon of Thurii. ‘Speaking for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Homer

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:E. M. Berens

Dryades, Or Tree Nymphs The tree nymphs partook of the distinguishing characteristics of the particular tree to whose life they were wedded, and were known collectively by the name of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Hornblower, Simon

Figure 14.1 The temple of Artemis, Ephesus Figure 14.2 The temple of Athena (reconstructed) at Priene THE EFFECTS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR Figure 14.3 Labraunda: general view well as socially ...