This image, produced anonymously around 1914 for Hutchinson's History of the Nations, illustrates the final chapter in the life of King Agesilaus II of...
The Thousand and One Nights
(a large collection of anonymously-authored stories of Indian, Persian and Arabian origin, compiled and edited between the 9th and 15th...
This curious image comes from the 12-century Skylitzes Matritensis manuscript of the Synopsis Historion by John Skylitzes (c. 1040-1101). The scene above features a...
This illustration, created by the French artist Jean Colombe (c. 1430–1493), depicts an event that occurred during the First Crusade (c. 1095/1096-1099). The scene...
Jonathan Swift (c. 1667-1745)
"You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best...
This image, produced anonymously around 1914 for Hutchinson's History of the Nations, illustrates the final chapter in the life of King Agesilaus II of...
This painting, attributed to the Italian artist Domenico Corvi (c. 1721–1803), re-creates an interesting tale from the life of Marcus Furius Camillus, a semi-legendary...
This curious image comes from the 12-century Skylitzes Matritensis manuscript of the Synopsis Historion by John Skylitzes (c. 1040-1101). The scene above features a...
This image, produced anonymously around 1914 for Hutchinson's History of the Nations, illustrates the final chapter in the life of King Agesilaus II of...
This painting, attributed to the Italian artist Domenico Corvi (c. 1721–1803), re-creates an interesting tale from the life of Marcus Furius Camillus, a semi-legendary...
This curious image comes from the 12-century Skylitzes Matritensis manuscript of the Synopsis Historion by John Skylitzes (c. 1040-1101). The scene above features a...
This painting, attributed to the Italian artist Domenico Corvi (c. 1721–1803), re-creates an interesting tale from the life of Marcus Furius Camillus, a semi-legendary...
This curious image comes from the 12-century Skylitzes Matritensis manuscript of the Synopsis Historion by John Skylitzes (c. 1040-1101). The scene above features a...
Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)
"There's no tenderness in war!"
From The Iliad (Book 15, approx. line 740) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by...
Chuang Tzu (Chinese Daoist/Taoist philosopher, c. 370-287 BCE)
"The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death."
From Chuang...
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE) was an Athenian general and historian who lived through the Peloponnesian War (c. 431-404 BCE) between Athens and Sparta. He...
This image, produced anonymously around 1914 for Hutchinson's History of the Nations, illustrates the final chapter in the life of King Agesilaus II of...
Hesiod (c. 8th century BCE)
"Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil."
From Hesiod’s Works and...
This painting, attributed to the Italian artist Domenico Corvi (c. 1721–1803), re-creates an interesting tale from the life of Marcus Furius Camillus, a semi-legendary...
Jonathan Swift (c. 1667-1745)
"You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best...
This image was created by the artist James William Edmund Doyle (1822–1892) and engraved for mass-production by Edmund Evans (1826–1905). It was one of...
Hesiod (c. 8th century BCE)
"Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil."
From Hesiod’s Works and...
This scene, painted by the Italian artist Sebastiano Ricci (c. 1659–1734), re-creates one of the legends surrounding the Gallic sack of Rome, which occurred...
Callincius was a governor of Cilicia during the reign of Emperor Justinian of Constantinople. Although he did little during his career as a governor...
This artwork, created by the Florentine artist Alessandro Allori (c. 1535–1607), depicts one of the famous scenes from Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. It...
Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)
"A gentleman is proud, but not quarrelsome, allies himself with individuals, but not with parties."
The Analects of Confucius (Book XV, section...
This painting, by the American artist Washington Allston, depicts a scene from the life of Elijah. Recognized as a prophetic holyman by the Abrahamic...
Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)
"Since Fortune's got the upper hand,
let's follow her where she calls and change course."
From The Aeneid (Book V) by Virgil, translated...
