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Books Ryan Holiday has sold, in 40 languages. His breakout hit The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and ...
Modern Meditations is a quick, easy read chalked full of nuggets of wisdom and pearls of practical advice for living a modern ...
Was the Book of Daniel really written in the sixth century BC or was it a much later forgery from the Hellenistic Era?
Mythology isn’t full of saints. These 8 books reveal the darker sides of gods through vengeance, betrayal, and chaos, and why ...
Goliath was a mighty Philistine warrior who appears as a giant in the Bible and was an enemy of the Israelites whom David killed.
We all know a great Greek tale or two – here are some of the greatest, the 1o best Greek mythology fantasy books. The master of the modern Greek myth, Madeline Miller has carved out a New York Times ...
The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and ...
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What Was the Polis?
For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.
The Dolli is a beautifully restored listed building right in the centre of Athens, and many of its 46 high-ceilinged, light-filled rooms and apartments look straight out on to the Acropolis.
Trump then led the polls, but he was still generally dismissed as a novelty candidate, certain to fade as summer turned to ...
F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...