Ancient Civilizations
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Epictetus

CHAPTER VIII. HOW WE ARE TO EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST THE SEMBLANCES OF THINGS. IN the same manner as we exercise ourselves against sophistical questions, we should exercise ourselves likewise in ...
( Category: Philosophy October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Plato

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION CRITO
( Category: Greece October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Epictetus & Robert Dobbin

II 21 On inconsistency [1] People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance. No one, at any rate,∗ will admit to ...
( Category: Greek & Roman October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Kara Cooney

She continues with a section on how temple building is akin to marking herself as the chosen one. The temple of the mistress of Qusae, which had (completely) fallen into ...
( Category: Women October 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Scott, Michael

Figure 10.1. Bust of a man of Delphi, often identified as Plutarch but now labeled simply as a philosopher type, dating to the second century AD (© EFA/Ph.Collet [Guide du ...
( Category: Greece October 16,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Recent Examination Hawass’s team confirmed that Tutankhamen’s chest had suffered serious damage prior to mummification (or, less likely, during Derry’s autopsy) and that his pelvic bones were almost entirely missing. ...
( Category: Egypt October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |ru | 1999-12-31 | Author:Brian Fagan

CHAPTER 8 Fat, Flints, and Furs MORAVIA, LATE WINTER, TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND years ago. The twelve-year-old boy sits listlessly by the hearth, shoulders sagging, seemingly exhausted. He has spent the day ...
( Category: Physical October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Anya Seton

Jenny slept that night in a big bed with Dorothy. The bedroom had been the Abbot’s lodging in the old monastery, her hostess explained, and Jenny had never seen anything ...
( Category: Biographical October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-14 | Author:Georg Ebers [Ebers, Georg]

Katuti had taken quite a new interest in Paaker since she had heard of his procuring the philter. No other young man of the rank to which they belonged, would ...
( Category: Egypt October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...
( Category: Rome October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Brian Thornton [Thornton, Brian]

50 MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO The Emperor as Scheming Pretty Boy ( A.D. 32–69) When civil war in the balance lay, and mincing Otho might have won the day, bloodshed too ...
( Category: Mesopotamia October 1,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Moffat, Alistair [Moffat, Alistair]

* * * What Have the Romans Ever Done? There are few more distinguished historians of Wales than John Davies and his excellent one-volume history has no peers. Generously, he ...
( Category: Scotland September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Bowersock, G.W.

7 THE ETHIOPIAN INVASION OF 525 If Cosmas can be trusted in reporting that he was present at Adulis twenty-five years before he was writing, he was there in 523 ...
( Category: Judaism September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:B.h. Liddell Hart

Following up Syphax, Lælius and Masinissa arrived in Massylia (Masinissa’s hereditary kingdom from which he had been driven) after a fifteen days’ march, and there expelled the garrisons left by ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Michael Rank [Rank, Michael]

Chapter 7 The Ancient Pueblo peoples (1200 B.C.): The Ancient Rock Climbers of the American Southwest In 1539, Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was named governor of the kingdom ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture September 15,2014 )