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Pericles Dies
Before Pericles dies, the morale in Athens was low. For the second year in succession the Spartans had been allowed
Hippocrates and Disease
In Hippocrates’ time, if death was the end, what could be done to stave it off? Deprived of what we
Athenian Death
Athenian deaths were now a shadow of the past. When Aeschylus, in his play, the Persians, thanked the gods for
Early Civilizations to Modern Age
Rome and the Christian Church A.D. 64 -180
TRUMPETS sounded the fire alarm in Rome on the night of July 18, in the year 64. It seemed that
The Growing Church 100 – 500 A. D.
AT THE beginning of the second century, the Christian Church was a loosely organized group of independent local churches. There
Great Church Fathers A.D. 340-430
IT WAS about the middle of Lent in Antioch, reported Jerome, when “a deep-seated fever fell upon my weakened body,
Distant Past and New Challenges
Milestones of History
Toledo falls, marking the end of Islam in Spain (1077 – 1100)
Toledo falls and this marks the beginning of the end of Islam in Spain. A triumph for orthodoxy The events
