category: ancient

The Seven Great Monarchies of the Eastern World: Or the History, Geography and Antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian Or New Persian Empire

... Persepolis ( ditto ) .. 88 89 134. Masonry of great platform , Persepolis ( ditto ) . 40 135. General plan of the same ( ditto ) .. 41 136. Ground - plan of great staircase ( ditto ) . 40 187. Front view of same . 41 138. Propylæa ...

The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-five Short Essays on Morals, Religion, and Philosophy : Each Essay Illustrating an Ancient Symbol Or Moral Precept

... the woods and the banks of rivers , or become a pest to his neighbourhood ... book , the expanding thoughts or emotions which escape are mere froth and ... signs of mental greatness , and the author willingly believes , therefore , that ...

Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates

... friends and damage of enemies . ' P.- It cannot be so . I am in utter confusion . Yet I think still that justice is ... hurt benefit just men ? P. - Yes ; that is some- thing better . S. - It will often happen , therefore , when a man ...

Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato

... other pursuit or branch of knowledge which may be assumed equally to be the condition of the existence of a State . Suppose that there could be no State unless we were all flute - players , as far as each had the capacity , and ...

Cosmic Connections:

... Swerdlow, Stewart A. “Creating Your Reality: All You Need Is Your Mind.” Huffington Post (July 10, 2012). Retrieved August 2, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stewart-a- swerdlow/ creating-your-realityall-b1649933.html. Theopedia ...

A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle: In Four Books ...

... soul , or a part of soul , or that which is not without soul ; so far as it has the power of increase and sensible ... boundaries of bodies ; since the latter are boundaries as of bodies , but the soul is a boundary as the form of ...

The Origin of Cities and Complex Societies in the Americas: A Brief Reader

... Olmecas , quienes probablemente fueron los creadores del calendario y de la escritura que luego serían utilizados por todos los pueblos mesoamericanos , también crearon una ideología madura y evolucionada —paralela a la de Chavín en el ...

A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenment

... to his sons . Even Protagoras admitted ... Socrates innocently suggests to Anytus , a prominent democratic leader who became his chief accuser , that the Sophists ... criticized their fee - taking were rather different , and typical of the man ...

The City-state of the Greeks and Romans: A Survey, Introductory to the Study of Ancient History

... imperium in the city ( domi ) and the same imperium in the field ( militia ) ... 1 Our knowledge of this revolution at Rome rests on no contemporary records ... 1 Mommsen , Staatsrecht , i . 59 foll .; article " Imperium " in Dict . of ...

Florilegium

... Columbinus Prophecy or De septem signaculis , ( inc . " Attende secundum ... Columbinus Prophecy , f . 80 Bodleian Library , Ashmole 393133 s . xiv S. XV 128 ... script of this text ( p . 102 ) . Earliest Known Owner Date and Shelfmark ...

Fire, Water, Heaven and Earth: Ritual Practice and Cosmology in Ancient Scandinavia : an Indo-European Perspective

This is illustrated by a variety of archaeological sites, particularly some examples that have been excavated by Swedish contract archaeology in recent years, yielding a rich new body of material for interpretations of this problem field.

Marburger Winckelmann-Programm

... INVENTARIO-CATALOGO 006 CARATTERISTICHE DI COLLOCAZIONE 007 PRECEDENTI COLLOCAZIONI 008 MANIFATTURA 021 DATA 022 OGGETTO 023 TFM (tecnica formato misure) 024 CONDIZIONI 025 SOGGETTO 026 ISCRIZIONI-STEMMI 029 TESTIMONIANZE 032 ...

Aspects of Inca Architecture: Description, Function, and Chronology

... modelos más generalizados facil- mente reconocidos en un plano . Se consideran ... inventario de ' Formas y de elementos estructurales ' y en un ' Informe de ... formato de conjunto de ' Necesidades de la actividad ' fue seguido por su ...

The Theme of Love in the Romans D'antiquité

... love have an Ovidian source , I would nevertheless like to point out at this stage that a number of similar expressions occur in the Aeneid , and suggest that the author drew first on these expressions , which he then supplemented from ...

The Principle of the Ancient Constitutional History of Ile Ife Ooyelagbo

M. O. Fasogbon. OSE OYEKU OWORIN OKA 11 OSA OBARA IWORI N OTURA IRETE OKANRAN ODI Complete Ilustration of the 16 Odu Ifa mentioned on pages 2 and 3 . OGUNDA IROSUN OG BE ORANGUN OR OFUN OTURUPON Printed by : UNITY COMM . PRINTERS 20 ...

The Ancient World

Ira Peck. Review and Skills Exercises Hebrews plan escape from Egypt under ... well established Hyksos conquer Egypt Hebrews begin moving into Egypt Battle ... World by Chester G. Starr and tells more about these unusual people . Read the ...

The Ancient History of Western Civilization

... Sparta became a military machine devoted to perpetuat- ing itself . The soldiers were buried in their red uniforms . The rest of Greece admired Sparta , partly because of its military success , more because Spartan life was a training ...

Heeren's Works: Tr. from the German

... A. C. 193-284 . SOURCES . The Extracts of Xiphilinus from DION CASSIUS , lib . lxxiii - lxxx . though often imperfect , reach down as low as the consulate of Dion himself under Alexander Severus , 229.- HERODIANI Hist . libri viii ...

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonian, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians

... king of Pontus , marries Antio- chus the Great , VI . 177 LAODICE , fifler ... V. 258 Laranda , city of Pifidia , revolts against Perdiccas , V. 280 ... Thermopyla with unparalleled bravery againft the innumerable army of Xerxes , III . 25. he ...

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians

... king of Pontus , marries Antiochus the Great , VIII . 5 LAODICE , fister of ... V.280 LASTHENES , of Crete , fupplies Demetrius Nicator with troops for ... Thermopyla with unparallelled bravery a- gainfl the innumerable army of Xerxes ...

The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Ancient monarchies and empires

... 2. Election initially , exercised only to formalize measures of the princeps . Last attested under Nerva ( 96-8 ) choice of magistrates , etc. curtailed under Augustus ... Imperium 2. Imperium maius 3. THE ROMAN EMPIRE : THE PRINCIPATE 529.

THE RIDDLE OF PREHISTORIC BRITAIN Hardback

... wonderful race, on the way to Peru, stands Easter Island with its remarkable monolithic torsos of human figures with their enormous heads all exactly alike, austere in expression, and possessing lineaments entirely at variance with the ...

Ancient Greece

Learn about ancient Greek culture and how it helped shape the art, ideas, words, and stories of the modern world.

Hermesianactis Poetae Elegiaci Colophonii Fragmentum

... v . Gell . X. 23. et Plin . XIV . 13 . V. 2. τιμος , pretium . Asch . Choeph ... 3. Kλnleis , vocatus , de conviva , Angl . bidden , invited . Machon Athen ... invexit , tertiam formam finxerunt , ávaideia , ut ẞaoiλeía , regnum , quæ non ...

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