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51On the Murder of Eratosthenes — is a speech by Lysias, one of the Canon of Ten Attic orators (Speech 1 in Lamb s translation, ISBN 978 0 674 99269 6). The speech is a defense written for Euphiletos who is charged with the death of Eratosthenes. The case is heard before the… …
52Fathers of the Church — • The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ: Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Fathers of the Church …
53Aristotle: Ethics and politics — Roger Crisp ETHICS BACKGROUND AND METHOD Aristotle wrote no books on ethics. Rather, he gave lectures, the notes for which subsequently were turned by others into two books, the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) and the Eudemian Ethics (EE). There is much… …
54Brasidas — (Greek: Βρασίδας ) (d. 422 BC) was a Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War.He was the son of Tellis and Argileonis, and won his first laurels by the relief of Methone, which was besieged by the Athenians (431 BC).… …
55Demagogy — (/ˈdɛməɡ …
56Timotheus (general) — Timotheus (? 354 BC) was a Greek statesman and general who sought to revive Athenian imperial ambitions by making Athens dominant in a second Athenian Empire. He was the son of the Athenian general, Conon. Isocrates considered that Timotheus was… …
57Isonomia — (ἰσονομία equality in front of the law Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon] The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes , Mogens Herman Hansen, ISBN 1 85399 585 1, P.81 84] ) from the Greek ἴσος isos , equal, and… …
58Charon's obol — Charon and Psyche (1883), a pre Raphaelite interpretation of the myth by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Charon s obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth[1] of a dead person before burial. According to …
59Hellenistic Age — In the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, the period between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) and the conquest of Egypt by Rome (30 BC). Alexander and his successors established Greek monarchies that controlled the area from… …
60ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …
