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The Philippics

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivere…

Publicola pt 1

In Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

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Plutarch/Perrin and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Arduous Years In The Central West

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Book XXIV: Priam ransoms Hector's body

In The Iliad

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Homer, trans. Butler and Homer

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Caesar Agustus part 1

In The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 12…

Ch 07: Provincial Administration under Augustus: The Eastern Provinces (27 B.C.…

In The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Found…

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John Bagnell Bury

The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …

Bk 7 Ch 6: Origin of the animosity between Sixtus IV. and Lorenzo de' Medici

In History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

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Niccolò Machiavelli

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, …

Book 4: January - November, A.D. 70: pt 1

In Tacitus' Histories

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Tacitus-Church/Brodribb and Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasia…

Marcus Licinius Crassus pt 1

In Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3

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Plutarch/Perrin and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …