A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active prob...A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active probably in the latter half of the second century AD was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical...more
A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active prob...A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active probably in the latter half of the second century AD was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical...more
The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at At...The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at Athens was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon s...more
A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active prob...A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active probably in the latter half of the second century AD was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical...more
The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at At...The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at Athens was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon s...more
The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at At...The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at Athens was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon s...more
The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at At...The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at Athens was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon s...more
The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at At...The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at Athens was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon s...more
The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at At...The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at Athens was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon s...more
A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active prob...A Platonic evangelist s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre active probably in the latter half of the second century AD was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical...more
Pagans advocate. Libanius (AD 314-393) was one of the last great publicists an...Pagans advocate. Libanius (AD 314-393) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items...more
The young statesman s first major prosecution. Cicero (Marcus Tullius 106-43 B...The young statesman s first major prosecution. Cicero (Marcus Tullius 106-43 BC) Roman lawyer orator politician and philosopher of whom we know more than of any other Roman lived through the stirring era that saw the rise dictatorship and death of...more
The emperor who renounced Christianity. Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) the...The emperor who renounced Christianity. Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) the Apostate Roman Emperor lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and...more
The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at At...The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) orator at Athens was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon s...more
The emperor who renounced Christianity. Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) the...The emperor who renounced Christianity. Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) the Apostate Roman Emperor lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and...more