Ancient

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Is ...more

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The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Of Love and Treason
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
Carthage: A New History
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Aeneid
The Republic
Meditations
Metamorphoses
The Histories
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Symposium
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Nicomachean Ethics
Medea

C. JoyBell C.
If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?
C. JoyBell C.

Ovid
Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies. ...more
Ovid, Metamorphoses

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