...This chapter discusses the significant role of the Greco-Roman tradition in European history. Europeans took the Greeks and Romans as role models for their own lives and actions as well as their own social order. The chapter deals with history where the Greeks were at their most productive...

... reform Artemisia I of Halicarnassus oracles about tyrants coinage Pisistratus of Athens Polycrates of Samos Samos Delphi Olympia Procles of Epidaurus Corcyra Melissa Greeks tyranny tyrants Cleisthenes Cypselus Greek history Around 590 bc Cleisthenes, the tyrant of Sicyon, wanted...

... prejudice in his work, including his dislike for Greeks, Franks, popes, and some bishops in Ravenna — he even labeled some as ‘ravenous beasts’ who were intent on depriving their clergy of its legitimate rights. It notes that besides giving a detailed history of Ravenna's clergy, Angellus' work can also...

...This chapter describes Egypt's contact with Greece and Rome. The Greeks are credited with giving the huge freestanding stones the name by which they are known today. The word ‘obelisk’ derives from obelos, the Greek for a meat skewer. Herodotus allegedly visited Egypt in the fifth...

... be destroyed, and she tries to protect them without incriminating herself, by arguing that they must be some unknown girl's natural children. The twins Aeolus and Boeotus survive to become the ancestors of Aeolian and Boeotian Greeks; the outcome for Melanippe is not known. Meanwhile, Captive Melanippe...

...This chapter provides the original text and translation of Book II of Cicero's Tusculans. It explains how Roman oratory is in decline and points out why it is time to seize philosophy from the Greeks, arguing both sides of each case and appealing to a sophisticated literary public...