Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Colin Wells [Wells, Colin]

The biggest problem the translators faced was generally not the difficulty of the Greek itself but the scarcity of good, accurate Greek manuscripts. Perhaps this helped give rise to the ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture July 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Andreas Campomar

Earthquakes in Chile For a country that had adopted the game so early, Chile’s record in international competition had been poor. The Andean republic had been the second country on ...
( Category: Aztec June 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

A spiritual vacuum had also opened up in India, and new sages worked energetically, even desperately, to find a fresh solution. By the late fifth century, the doctrine of karma, ...
( Category: Sociology May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Aloys Winterling [Winterling, Aloys]

RESHAPING THE EMPEROR’S ROLE The conspiracy of Agrippina, Livilla, and Lepidus had presented Caligula with the same threat in extreme form that had always been present under the rule of ...
( Category: History & Theory May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Cline, Eric H.

Pylos At Pylos, the destruction of the palace, originally thought by the excavator to date to ca. 1200 BC, is now usually dated to about 1180 BC, for the same ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture May 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Martin Edwards [Edwards, Martin]

Guy was curious to learn how Tony Di Venuto had used the information that Emma was buried beneath the labyrinth. Of course, it would be foolish to walk up through ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Graham Hancock

The strange case of the bison-bull (1) In David Trump’s authoritative Archaeological Guide to Malta, most recently updated and extended in March 2000, the visitor to the Hypogeum is urged ...
( Category: Oceanography May 6,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-03-09 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

IN CATILINAM II [1] At long last, citizens, Lucius Catilina,* crazed with recklessness, panting with criminality, treacherously plotting the destruction of his country, and menacing you and this city with ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks May 4,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Aristotle.,McKeon, Richard [Aristotle]

6 There are, both among those who have these convictions and among those who merely profess these views, some who raise a difficulty by asking, who is to be the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 3,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon

VII After this they marched into the country of the Taochians five stages—thirty parasangs—and provisions failed; for the Taochians lived in strong places, into which they had carried up all ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

Footnotes: 1 (return) [ Or, "Socrates' Defence before the Dicasts." For the title of the work see Grote, "H. G." viii. 641; Schneid. ap. L. Dindorf's note {pros tous dikastas}, ...
( Category: Philosophy April 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon

(11) See Lys. xix. "de bon. Arist." 19 foll.; and Hicks, 71, "Honours to Dionysios I. and his court"; Grote, "H. G." ix. 453. (12) Mod. Kalamata. But Conon had ...
( Category: Greece April 28,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Stone, Larry [Stone, Larry]

Gravity-fed automatic pet feeders, similar to those available at Petco, could hold enough food for a week. Water in the ark could be transported not with buckets but with pipes ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 1981-06-06 | Author:John Keay [Keay, John]

From the brackets hidden beneath the great roof cornices to the toe-level elephant frieze, and including the elaborately fretted windows, every surface was alive with carving ‘of marvellous elaboration and ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Erich von Daniken [Daniken, Erich von]

Today the seaman knows that his goal exists (unlike the prehistoric discoverer); he knows where it lies and on what route it is to be found. The original Polynesians lacked ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 27,2014 )