1.the past,the old days,antiquity,yesterday,the good old days,yesteryear,ancient history,olden days,days of old,days of yore,bygone timesIs history about to repeat itself? 2.chronicle,record,story,account,relation,narrative,saga,recital,narration,annals,recapitulationhis magnificent history of broadca...
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity2. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro1 Publio Sestio History is indeed little History is the witness that testifies to the pa...
In what is now Italy, tile use and production proliferated in the Roman era – not least in the form of intricate, technicolor mosaics – and the styles embraced in antiquity were an early precedent for those used today. The use of tiles skyrocketed further in the later Renaissance period, ...
1. This is not all. It is now proposed by theSaturday ReviewandPall Mall Gazettethat this promising branch of female industry should be “protected” by the curtailment of cross-examination. A Mrs. Brereton, the other day, brought what the jury by their verdict pronounced a false, or to ...
Epicurus Diderot. In antiquity and modernity alike, analytical thoughtdissolved the religion that had buttressed the moral code. New religions came,but they were divorced from the ruling classes, and gave no service to ...
narrative of the sort that classical historian reserved for their own histories of politics and war. These writers of lateantiquityand the early medieval period proposed that names, customs, shared myths, and long histories of contact were the elements connecting different peoples in a continuous ...
In Persians: The Age of the Great Kingsby Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire—the largest empire of antiquity—from the point of view of the Persians. The book starts in 1000 BCE and ends in 330 BCE, after Alexander the III (aka the Great)'s defeat...
The Ancients, hosted by historian Tristan Hughes, is dedicated to discussing our distant past. Historians and archaeologists join Tristan to discuss specific themes from antiquity, from Neolithic Britain to the Fall of Rome. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb presentsNot Just the Tudors. Together with expert...
antiquity.” Dante’sface struck Chamberlain as characteristically German; he thought he heardunmistakably German accents in St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians; and thoughhe was not quite sure that Christ was a German,...