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)
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Jewel of the Nile
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Xolo
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Carthage: A New History
The Lion (The Golden Age #1)
Empire (The Golden Age #2)
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Aeneid
Meditations
The Republic
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

Wade Davis
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times.
Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

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.

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