Greece category: 2003 books

Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two...

4 works of Plutarch Greek historian, biographer, and essayist (46-120) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Plutarch. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Essays and Miscellanies - Plutarch's Lives Volume I - Plutarch's Lives Volume II - Plutarch's Lives Volume III

Appian of Alexandria (95 165 A.D.), was a Roman historian, known for his only surviving work, Roman History. The Civil Wars is a series of books from Roman History describing the many civil wars during Roman history between men like Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as well as Octavian and Mark Antony....

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair...

The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.

Alexander the Great has fascinated people for centuries - and still does. Here, from award-winning historian and journalist Charles Mercer, is the story of the military genius who became a king at twenty told with all the color and drama characteristic of Alexander's time.

L’Odissea di Omero e le Storie di Erodoto: due tra le più antiche opere di viaggio della letteratura occidentale, entrambe espressione del mondo greco, eppure straordinariamente diverse l’una dall’altra. Il poema di Ulisse tratteggia l’itinerario simbolico e introspettivo di un uomo alla...

Xenophon of Athens (circa 430 354 B.C.) was a Greek poet, historian, soldier and philosopher who lived at a time of momentous events in Ancient Greek history. Although he was recognized as a great writer and poet in his lifetime, Xenophons involvement with Spartan politics and fighting led to his exile...

Zum Reformationsjubiläum 2017: Lutherische Kirchenmusik ist ein Kernstück der westlichen Kultur. Konrad Küster eröffnet mit seinem Buch zum Reformationsjubiläum einen modernen Zugang zu ihrer Tradition: überkonfessionell, wissenschaftlich fundiert, aber auch dem breiteren interessierten...

The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration...

A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds "This book is a ground-breaking study of the Greek institution of paiderastia. This was a custom by which adolescent men made alliances with older men of a romantic and sexual nature. The young men in question were the same age as contemporary...

Xenophon of Athens (circa 430 354 B.C.) was a Greek poet, historian, soldier and philosopher who lived at a time of momentous events in Ancient Greek history. Although he was recognized as a great writer and poet in his lifetime, Xenophons involvement with Spartan politics and fighting led to his exile...

The Balkan Peninsula and the Near East covers the history of the Balkans from the Byzantine Era, Ottoman rule, and modern times. A table of contents and the original maps are included.

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed...