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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
26: ...[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heav...
28: ... the prelates and peers who knelt before her and, placing their hands on her crown, swore allegiance t...
31: ...nce with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treat...
40: ...omising childhood. With her marriage agreement in place, she was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at th...
42: ...[[Scots Language|Scots]]. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, horsemanship... - Relic (11473 bytes)
15: ... in themselves no ethical meaning and no humane implications whatever. They are the keywords of a reli...
17: ...e righteous rage with which mobs of Christians toppled sculptures, and smashed classical bas-reliefs (...
19: ...loining of St [[Nicholas of Bari]] is another example. The [[Image of Edessa]] was reputed to render t...
28: ...o included is an item that the saint had, for example, a crucifix, book etc. Again, an item more impor...
36: ...ult to distinguish from a religious cult, while [[Plutarch]] gives accounts of the translation of the ... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...a [[heliocentric model]] of the [[solar system]], placing the [[Sun]], not the [[Earth]], at the cente...
11: ...tly quite strong, as the following passage from [[Plutarch]] suggests (''On the Apparent Face in the O... - Isis (20790 bytes)
5: ...male) of flesh'', i.e. [[mortal]], and she may simply have represented deified, real, [[Queen regnant|...
7: ...ghout the [[Middle East]] and [[Europe]], with temples to her built as far away as the [[British Isles...
19: ===Temples===
20: ...ell deeply in love within their mother's womb. Temples dedicated specifically to Isis become wide-spre...
22: By this period, temples to Isis begin to spread outside of Egypt. In ma... - Horus (19927 bytes)
12: ...aning ''(ones) of the djeba'' (the reason for the plural is not understood, and may just have been a r...
17: ... that the moon was not as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as the ''contestings of Hor...
19: ...orus' right eye had also been gouged out, which explained why the moon, which it represented, was so w...
21: ... hellenic era. Consequently Ra and Horus never completely merged into a single falcon-headed sun god.
26: ...es the ''[[Top (sex)|top role]]''. However, Horus places his hand between his [[thigh]]s and catches S... - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ... or [[curriculum vitae]], a biography develops complex insight and highlights different textures of pe...
3: ==People by name==
4: ... - [[List of people by name: Y|Y]] - [[List of people by name: Z|Z]]'''
8: ... iographies. These biographies only detailed accomplishments. The [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[holy scripture...
12: ...abilia'' by [[Xenophon]], ''Parallel Lives'' by [[Plutarch]] and ''Lives of Caesars'' by [[Suetonius]]... - Aeschines (2644 bytes)
5: ...nduct, forfeited the right to speak before the people.
7: ...s in his speech On the False Embassy, Aeschines replied in a speech with the same title and was again ...
9: ...iphon'' and ''On the Crown''. The result was a complete victory for Demosthenes.
15: ...a Legations'' and ''In Ctesiphentem''; Lives by [[Plutarch]], [[Philostratus]] and [[Libanius]]; the '... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
7: Nor did the instructors of his early manhood supply the corrective which his boyhood lacked.
42: ...entions Alcibiades several times in his satirical plays, for instance making fun of his manner of spee...
44: ** [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] where he appears to be in lo...
45: ...from antiquity titled "Alcibiades", ascribed to [[Plato]], both of them however probably spurious, tha...
46: * [[Plutarch]] gives a biography of Alcibiades, and comp... - Alexander of Pherae (1959 bytes)
3: ...cts as cruelly as before. The Thessalians next applied to [[Thebes (Greece)|Thebes]]; [[Pelopidas]], ...
5: ... at her instigation. Ancient accounts, such as [[Plutarch]]'s ''Life of Pelopidas,'' agree in describ...
8: :::—Plutarch, ''Moralia:'' "On the Fortune of Alexander.... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...s lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he app...
9: ...eeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.2-3) relates that both Phi...
11: ...er was [[Zeus]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended f...
14: ...omannus]], the recently crowned King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander t...
16: ...ad pledged allegiance to Philip were not quick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately order... - Alexis (1054 bytes)
5: ...tles are preserved. Only fragments of any of the plays have survived - about 340 in all, totalling ab...
7: ...comedians, including [[Turpilius]] and possibly [[Plautus]]. - Anaxarchus (1184 bytes)
5: [[Plutarch]] tells a story that at [[Bactra]], in [[32...
9: ...epithet ''eudaimonikos'' ("fortunate"), usually applied to him, that he held the end of life to be ''[... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
9: ...anto_location.png|thumb|240px|left|Most important places in the [[Pyrrhic War]] ([[280 BC|280]]-[[275 ...
21: ... proclaimed king of Sicily. He was already making plans for his son Helenus to inherit the kingdom of ...
23: ...es and the Greeks. Meanwhile, he had begun to display despotic behavior towards the Sicilian Greeks, ...
29: ...rta and place him in power. Pyrrhus agreed to the plan, intending to win control of the Peloponnese fo...
38: *[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pyrrhus.html Plutarch's biography] - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...n [[ancient Greek]] [[philosopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two...
8: ...gh Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[Ancient philo...
10: ...ge has ethical as well as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[ideali...
12: Aristotle, by contrast, placed much more value on knowledge gained from the ...
21: ...The surviving works are known and respected for a plain and unadorned (though not easy) style; not one... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... over the traditional [[geocentric theory]] (that placed [[Earth]] at the center of the [[Universe]]),...
10: ...omer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
16: ...ined access to those passages of [[Cicero]] and [[Plato]] about the opinion of Ancients on the movemen...
20: ...tensively on government [[business]] and as a [[diplomat]], on the behalf of the [[Prince-Bishop]] of ...
28: ...visit and study with them. Rheticus became a disciple of Copernicus' and stayed with him for two years... - Carthage (20744 bytes)
8: ...e over the Western Mediterranean. Merchants and explorers established a vast network of trade, bringin...
24: ... or by an assembly of the people. Although the people might have had an influence on legislation, demo...
29: ...cheological excavations could be taken to confirm Plutarch's view. In a single child cemetery called t...
31: ...e a portrait of a very well organized caste of temple priests and acolytes performing different types ...
33: Carthage had many gods. The supreme divine couple was that of [[Tanit]] and [[Ba`al Hammon]]. Prie... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
4: ...d [[buoyancy]], also known as [[Archimedes' principle]], while taking a bath (thereupon taking to the ...
12: ...om the vertex to the base. The vertex must be so placed that the two horizontal distances mentioned i...
16: ...n the process, he calculated the oldest known example of a [[geometric series]] with the [[ratio]] 1/4...
26: ...icted the motions of the sun and the moon and the planets (i.e. an [[orrery]]). He credits [[Thales]] ...
32: * ''On the Equilibrium of Planes'' (2 volumes) - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
5: ...or and sent the Imperial insignia to [[Constantinople]]. After another millennium, in [[1453]], the Ea...
9: ...ne thousand years after they were created, and displays of imperial majesty were common from the earli...
19: ... ambitions seemed to threaten the republic - now placidly accepted one man rule.
42: ...ustan Age include [[Tacitus]], [[Dio Cassius]], [[Plutarch]] and [[Suetonius]]. [[Josephus]]'s ''[[Jew...
52: ...]; the Emperor's paranoia, which he had so ably exploited for his own gain, was turned against him. Se... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
10: ...le]] of [[Delphi]] – to try and save his people from war in the [[9th century BC]]. The prophete...
19: ... gold of Zeus]], the father of the Greek gods, scuplted by [[Phidias]]. This statue was one of the anc...
21: ...t chronology, the first Olympiad would have taken place in 919 BC.
43: ...ere allowed to participate, as the Greek writer [[Plutarch]] relates that one young man was rejected f...
45: ...]'', ''[[hippios]]'', ''[[dolichos]]'', and ''[[hoplitodromos]]''), as well as a [[pentathlon]], consi... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...e into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to t...
6: ...rded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius Dio]].
17: ...Roman Senate]], people were forced to stand and applaud his presence.
28: ...n asked why he would have such a reaction, his simple response was: "Do you think I have not just...
30: ...elationship with Rome’s great general would play into his hands later.
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