Balthild, a future wife and mother of kings, emerged from obscure origins in the early 7th century. Also called Balthilde, Bathild and Baldhild, she...
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"ust as no human body is perfect, so no self is perfect."
From Soren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death (chapter C, section...
Govert Flinck (1615-1660) is attributed with painting this darkly-colored copy of an earlier artwork by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654). Both the original and the copy...
When Emperor Heraclius seized control of Constantinople and its empire in 610, he inherited his realm’s war with the Persian ruler, Khosrow II, which...
Sun Tzu (sayings recorded from 6th-3rd century BCE)
"The Skillful Warrior
First ensured
His own
Invulnerability;
Then he waited for
The enemy's
Vulnerability."
From Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter...
In this painting, the Italian artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (c. 1727-1804) condenses several stories about the fall of Troy into one chaotic scene. It...
