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has become formidable. Physicians now have technologies and knowledge needed to prevent natural death almost indefinitely. Too often, terminally ill patients suffer needless pain and stay alive without real hope, as families have a terribl...
The Twelve Caesar Translated by Robert Graves In his book Suetonius: The Twelve Caesar Translated by Robert Graves, a collection of twelve biographies of emperors from Caesar to Domitian written around 120, leaves us with two references to ...
Greek lands. The Spartan heroism at the Battle of Thermopylae, during the Persian Wars, inspired all of Greece to fight back with all their might against the invading Persians. Athenian and Spartan fought side by side in the Battle of Plata...
Peloponnesian War. The war, which went on for 27 years, is named for the Peloponnesus, the peninsula on which Sparta is located (Hanson 2006). The result of the war was the crushing defeat of Athens and the end of its maritime empire. A m...
that Anthony’s involvement with Cleopatra becomes a sort of parable of how the great can be destroyed by their moral flaws. . Plutarch’s view of the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra seems to comprise of the key components of any lu...
Plutarch's independence in the use of his sources, but has also acknowledged to an increasing extent his own contribution to the particular portrayal of his heroes, and his capacity for creative imagination to transform what his sources off...
of one of the most interesting chapters in the long story of the debt of moderns to ancients. One of the most kindly and young spirited, he is also one of the most versatile of Greek writers, and his influence has worked by devious ways to...