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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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 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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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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Having driven the Persians off after the Battle of Platæa, Athens entered upon its classical era par excellence.
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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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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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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 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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Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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The stage is now set for the Early Iron Age, much of which could be likened to a statue with a golden head, a silver chest, a bronze belly …
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