epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

There are, most surely, significant differences between the Socratic and the Christian presentations. But the fathers of the early church were blown away by the similarities, especially given what they ...

epub |eng | | Author:Homer

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-06-11 | Author:Tom Holland [Holland, Tom]

Clearing the Decks The notion that any man had only to clap his hands to have a canal dug, a bridge built or a whole continent summoned teeming into arms ...

epub |eng | | Author:Margalit Fox

IN 1949, KOBER came out with a noteworthy article that solved two enduring small mysteries in a single stroke. One was the problem of telling male from female animals in ...

mobi |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:George Mann

CHAPTER 17 “I’m afraid Sir Maurice is, shall we say … indisposed.” Veronica made a brief appraisal of Scarbright, standing on the doorstep of Newbury’s house. He looked impeccable as ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Anthony Everitt

8 THE IDEAL CONSTITUTION Writing about Politics: 55–43 BC Now that he was no longer able to play an active role in the conduct of affairs, Cicero decided to find ...

mobi |eng | 1953-01-02 | Author:Plato; Scott Buchanan

“For the life-giving daughters of Inachus the river of Argos”; —let us have no more lies of that sort. Neither must we have mothers under the influence of the poets ...

mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:James S. Romm

4. EUMENES (CAPPADOCIA, SPRING 320 B.C.) Eumenes had become the loneliest man in the empire. Word reached him from Egypt that Perdiccas was murdered and that the royal army had ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Victor Hanson

How to Take a Polis In an obscure fourth-century military treatise about protecting poleis from besieging armies and intriguers within the walls, a shadowy Greek author, Aeneas Tacticus, who may ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

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 ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

So, through the baroque imagination of a Greek master, ‘Alexander’s Wedding to Roxane’ won a prize at the festival games of Greek Olympia and survived through a Roman visitor’s description ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Bettany Hughes

Beauty in Athens at this time was seriously considered to be the sign of a brilliant and noble spirit; a gift of the gods. Those laudable qualities that justified privilege ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Stephen Fry

Colonel and Coltrane It was hard not to like Manchester. Being called 'love', 'chuck' or a 'daft barmcake' can only delight a southerner used to the lonely and unsmiling lovelessness ...

azw, azw3, epub, mobi, pdf | | 2009-12-08 | Author:Homer

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-08-15 | Author:Plato & Christopher Rowe & Plato

He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...