Texts in Context: Warriors and Wits
On the eve of the Persian invasion, let us look more closely at Athens and its opposite number, Sparta.
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Homer: An Author Profile
The principal literary quality of this, perhaps the most shadowy of all the figures on the CLT Author Bank, is a little ironic.
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Hippocrates: The Founder of Western Medicine
Hippocrates: The Founder of Western Medicine By Gabriel Blanchard What we call modern medical science stretches far further back than we may think. Like Homer or the composer
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Thucydides: The Other Father of History
Thucydides:The Other Father of History Fifth-century BC Athens is one of the keys to understanding Western thought and history. For better or worse, to this day, our politics,
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