Greece
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan
CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category:
Epic
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-01-29 | Author:Herodotus
At dawn next morning he was seen communicating his dream to the interpreters; but later he put it out of his mind and took part in the procession, during which ...
( Category:
Greece
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-08-27 | Author:Plato
23. The process of transformation further explained. The main bulk of each body tends to collect in a particular region. From all we have so far said about the four ...
( Category:
Greek & Roman
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Helen Morales [Morales, Helen]
Diana, or, as the Greeks called her, Artemis, has come back in vogue in New Age feminism and in popular culture. These Dianas range from sanitized versions of the goddess ...
( Category:
Feminist Theory
April 16,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:Owen Rees
Map 10: Final battle of the Great Harbour of Syracuse Aftermath The loss of life and of ships for both sides was substantial. So shocking and categorical was this defeat ...
( Category:
Greece
April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carey, Christopher.
[1] The Phaselites are not up to anything new, judges, but their usual practice. These people are exceedingly clever at borrowing money in the trading zone and then, when they've ...
( Category:
Administrative Law
April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip de Souza
The battle of Thermopylai The Greek defence of the pass of Thermopylai lasted three days. Initially the Persians seem to have thought that they could overwhelm the Greeks by sheer ...
( Category:
Greece
April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sarah Iles Johnston [Johnston, Sarah Iles]
[as] . . . a newly established group committed to mutual love, its leaders acutely sensitive to the "worldly smoke" of rivalry, [Christianity] could hardly survive the interplay of blame ...
( Category:
Ritual
April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-30 | Author:William J Broad [Broad, William J]
Still, de Boer felt Hale’s question was fresh and worth exploring. Who knew what they’d find? Maybe a novel mechanism would come to light. He sensed that an answer might ...
( Category:
Geology
April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Neil Matt Hamilton [Hamilton, Neil Matt]
Jason and the Argonauts Jason was the last of the three great heroes of Greek myth, excluding Heracles. He was the son of Aeson, who was a king in Thessaly, ...
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Greece
April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:Homer [Homer]
14.ILIÁDOS Ξ Now the shouting did not escape the notice of Nestor, although he was drinking, and to the son of Asclepius he addressed winged words: “Take thought, noble Machaon, ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Beckwith, Christopher I.
CHAPTER 4 Greek Enlightenment WHAT THE BUDDHA, PYRRHO, AND HUME ARGUE AGAINST The argument known in Antiquity as the Problem of the Criterion was introduced to Western thought by Pyrrho ...
( Category:
Greece
March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:Thomas N. Mitchell
CHAPTER 6 Reconciliation and Reform The restoration of the control of the demos in October 403, and the constitutional modifications that accompanied it and set Athens on course for another ...
( Category:
Democracy
March 25,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Simon Hornblower & Antony Spawforth & Esther Eidinow [Hornblower, Simon]
K kingship (basileia) The Mycenaean political system (see MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION) was monarchic, with the king (wanax) at the head of a palace-centred economy; the 10th-cent. BC ‘hero’s tomb’ at *Lefkandi ...
( Category:
Greece
March 25,2020 )
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