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Plutarch: On SpartaPenguin Classics Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who also disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep

this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy

Classical Athens boasted some of the most original and influential achievements in literature

Holy Scripture (or Holy Bible or Holy Letters)

Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become

and a magical vessel that speaks

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fissures in the social fabric

and carries on

he was punished but not silenced

Ancient they may be but these Greeks asked the same eternal questions we ask - and came up with interesting answers

fortune-tellers