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Classical Ethics – Part Two

By Brendan M.P. Heard, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Read Classical Ethics – Part One Here The maxim, know thyself, inscribed over the opening to the very ancient Temple of Apollo at Delphi, was a traditional credo of much speculation. This call to know thyself is inextricably tied to Socrates’ belief that “the unexamined life is

Written on January 28, 2020 at 2:02 pm, by Brendan Heard

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Oracle of Delphi, socrates

The Phoenicians: More than Just Pirates

By Edward Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Phoenicians are among the most important people in the Ancient world. According to Homer the Phoenicians were also feared as pirates, but it’s clear they were much more than that. In fact, they decisively shaped the culture and the economy of the Levant and greatly influenced the

Written on November 19, 2019 at 3:09 pm, by Whelan

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Categories: Places

Tags: Alexander the Great, ancient history, City of Tyre, Maritime culture, Semitic, The History of Phoenicia, The Phoenician Alphabet

Timeline of Ancient Greek history

3000 BCE First Settlers: Hunter-gathers begin to settle in what is Greece. A bronze age culture and civilization begins on the island of Crete. 1600 BCE Mycenaean Greece: Bronze age kingdoms in mainland Greece. Powerful kings who ruled centralized states and who built great palaces such as Mycenae. 1194 BCE Trojan War: This was a

Written on October 15, 2019 at 2:37 pm, by Whelan

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Categories: History

Tags: Alexander invades India, Alexander the Great, Ancient Greek history, Ancient Greek warfare, Aristotle, Cleopatra, Corinth, death of socrates, Draco's code of Law, Homer, iliad, Magna Graecia, Messenian War, Mycenaean, Odyssey, Olympic games, Peloponnesian war, persian war, Phillip II, Phoenician Alphabet, Plato, Solon, syracuse, Timeline of Ancient Greece, Xerxes

Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great: PART 2

By David Grant, Author of Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great, the Remarkable Discovery of the Royal Tombs of Macedon Read Part I Here In November 1977 the ‘archaeological discovery of the century’ emerged from soil below a great tumulus at Vergina in northern Greece. Eventually four tombs and a shrine would be unearthed

Written on October 11, 2019 at 9:13 am, by plato

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Categories: Archeology

Tags: Alexander the Great, Archeology, David Grant, Philip II, Phillip II, Royal Tombs of Macedon, Vergina

Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great: PART 1

By David Grant, Guest Author, Classical Wisdom On November 8, 1977, ‘Archangel’s Day’ in Greece, an excavation team led by Professor Manolis Andronikos was roped down into the eerie gloom of a rare Macedonian-styled tomb at Vergina in northern Greece. Dignitaries, police, priests and politicians watched on as the first shafts of light in 2,300

Written on October 9, 2019 at 1:59 pm, by plato

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Categories: Archeology

Tags: Alexander the Great, Archeology, David Grant, Philip II, Phillip II, Royal Tombs of Macedon, Vergina

The Eternal City

Written by Brendan Heard, Author of the Decline and Fall of Western Art The Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt is a unique reference point in classical history. Most notably, our very notion of classical wisdom itself largely depends on this period, insofar as it played a role in the documentation, preservation, and accumulation of the wisdom

Written on September 27, 2019 at 9:48 am, by Brendan Heard

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Categories: History

Tags: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Egypt, Euclid, Library of Alexandria, Ptolemy, The library of Alexandria