Christmas in the Author Bank
Saints and stories are scattered over each of the twelve days of Christmas. We’ve selected readings from our Author Bank for each one.
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Texts in Context: The Real Dark Ages
We turn now to the pathless north, to see if there is any light we can shed upon an age famed most for its slain dragons, extinct giants, and other elusive natives of Faërie.
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Texts in Context: Once, Now, and Forever
You can say what you like about the Emperor Nero. … No really, go ahead. The bloke’s dead, he can’t stop you.
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Texts in Context: The Pax Romana
Texts in ContextThe Pax Romana By Gabriel Blanchard “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery” The Divine Logos Naturally it is impossible, in a format like this, to write
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Texts in Context: The Legacy of Socrates
Death is normally the end of a person’s story; but for a small handful of figures, Socrates among them, things only get more interesting afterwards.
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Texts in Context: The World of Pericles
Having driven the Persians off after the Battle of Platæa, Athens entered upon its classical era par excellence.
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Texts in Context: The Triumph of Hellas
The preposterous victory of the Greeks over the Persians is, in a sense, the beginning of a self-consciously Western civilization.
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Student Essay: Achilles Atropos
Typical analyses see the turning point of Achilles’ character in his re-entry to the war. But does his character really change?
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Texts in Context: The Age of the Tyrants
Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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Texts in Context: A Rosy-Fingered Dawn
Texts in Context:A Rosy-Fingered Dawn By Gabriel Blanchard The Dark Age of the post-Bronze-Age Ægean is obscure to historians, but what happened next is far less so …
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