Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from The Awakening of Europe, by M.B. Synge (published 1903) “To achieve what they have undertaken, or else to give reason wherefore it will not be.”
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Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, by Charles Morris (published 1896). One day, in the far-off sixth century, a youthful deacon of the Roman Church walked into the
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Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, Vol. IV, by Charles Morris (published 1896) From the main peak of the flag ship Victory hung out Admiral Nelson’s famous signal,
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Hero Tales from American History, by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt Daniel Boone will always occupy a unique place in our history as the
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race, by M.I. Ebbutt (published 1910) The Roland Legends CHARLES THE GREAT, King of the Franks, world-famous as Charlemagne,
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Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, Vol. 6, by Charles Morris (published 1896). Charlemagne, the great king, had built himself an empire only surpassed by that of ancient
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Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers. When Ridley Scott returned to the Alien franchise to direct the first prequel movie, Prometheus, he chose to explore an intriguing idea implicit in
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Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, by Charles Morris (published 1896). Prasutagus, the king of the Icenians, a tribe of the ancient Britons, had amassed much wealth in
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Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from Plutarch’s Life of Caesar (Dryden’s translation as revised by A. H. Clough, published 1905). After Sylla became master of Rome, he wished to make Caesar
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Giovanni Papini’s The Life of Christ. While Papini’s interpretations of Scripture are sometimes questionable or even false, and though he is given to intellectual musings
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