Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"There is nothing like the sympathy of a common cause to make the settlement of other differences easy."
From Sir Winston...
This landscape painting by the American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872) alludes to the ancient tale of Odysseus and the land of the Lotus...
Confucius (Chinese philosopher, 6th-5th century BCE)
"The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The...
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
"In you there is nothing that we hate, nothing we detest, nothing we abominate, nothing we condemn, except human error."
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This painting, by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens (c. 1593–1678), was inspired by the Greco-Roman myth of Philemon and Baucis. The shirtless men, seen...
Childeric was a Frankish king of the Merovingian Dynasty, who ruled from approximately 456 to 481. Unfortunately, we know relatively few solid facts about...
