Greece
epub |eng | 2010-03-12 | Author:Evans, Nancy [Evans, Nancy]
FIVE Alcibiades Politics, Religion, and the Cult of Personality THUCYDIDES’ LAST REPORTED SPEECH OF Pericles in book 2 depicts the dynamic Athenian leader encouraging the people of Athens to be ...
( Category:
Democracy
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-11 | Author:Dover, K. J.
III Special Aspects and Developments A. Publicity Two passages of Aristophanes introduce us to a phenomenon of Greek life which expressed and sustained the homosexual ethos. In the first (Ach. ...
( Category:
LGBT
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Aristotle [Aristotle]
14 Insects almost all go into hiding, with the exception of such of them as live in human habitations or perish before the completion of the year. They hide in ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-21 | Author:Milton S. Terry [Unbekannt]
[548. Unholy king.--The reference seems to be to Nero, under whom was begun the Jewish war which ended in the destruction of the temple. Comp. lines 187-209 above. 556-580. A ...
( Category:
Prophecy
March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:W.T. Stace [Stace, W.T.]
Sense objects, so far as they are knowable, that is so far as they are more than bare sensations, are so only because the Idea resides in them. And this ...
( Category:
Greek & Roman
March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Andrew Erskine
3 What Does “Family” Mean? While we might feel that we understand the tribulations and motivations at work in Demosthenes’ and Cicero’s family lives, we should be careful not to ...
( Category:
Movements & Periods
March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Plato [Plato]
YOUNG SOCRATES: What sort of an image? STRANGER: Well, such as this:—Every man will reflect that he suffers strange things at the hands of both of them; the physician saves ...
( Category:
Greek & Roman
March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Nicholas Sekunda & Peter Dennis
Aftermath Shocked by such barbarity towards a great king, Antigonos Gonatas had Pyrrhus cremated in the middle of the marketplace, and a monument of white marble was built on the ...
( Category:
Greece
March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:John D. Grainger
( Category:
Historical Greece Biographies
March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arrian
* * * CHAPTER XII. Callisthenes Refuses to Prostrate Himself. By making these and other remarks of a similar kind, Callisthenes greatly annoyed Alexander, but spoke the exact sentiments of ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
March 7,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robin Hard
Notes 1 Apollod. 3.1.1; Agenor’s wife as Argiope, Pher. F21, Hyg. Fab. 6. 2 Schol. Il. 12.92 citing Hesiod (= fr. 171) and Bacchylides (= fr. 105). 3 Moschus 2, ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]
When Metellus asked him who his father was, Your mother, said he, has made that question a harder one for you to answer than for me. For she was unchaste, ...
( Category:
Greece
March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-13 | Author:Isocrates [Isocrates]
[2] For my part, I should think that this would be the finest and the most serviceable present and the most suitable for me to give and for you to ...
( Category:
Greece
March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Pausanias [Pausanias]
[2.3] So even in his time poets lived at the courts of kings, as earlier still Anacreon consorted with Polycrates, despot of Samos, and Aeschylus and Simonides journeyed to Hiero ...
( Category:
Greece
March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-01 | Author:Clackson, James
Tracking linguistic variation in the ancient world The study of ancient language variation is hampered by our lack of access to spoken language. All our evidence for the ancient world ...
( Category:
Historical Study & Educational Resources
March 6,2020 )
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