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• Alexander the Great and the Burning of Persepolis

• Ashurbanipal's Collection of Babylonian Proverbs

• Aspasia of Miletus: The Art of Eloquence

• Beer in the Ancient World

• Boudicca: Queen of the Iceni, Scourge of Rome

• Diodorus Siculus on Fate and Philip of Macedon

• Diodorus Siculus: The Battle of Chaeronia

• Dogs in the Ancient World

• Enheduanna - Poet, Priestess, Empire Builder

• Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation

• Female Gladiators In Ancient Rome

• From Slavery to Freedom: Epictetus' Path

• Heraclitus: Life Is Flux

• Heraclitus: Life Is Flux

• Heraclitus' Fragments

• Herodotus: On The Customs of the Persians

• Hesiod on the Birth of the Gods

• Hypatia of Alexandria: The Passing of Philosophy to Religion

• Inanna's Descent: A Sumerian Tale of Injustice

• Jezebel: Princess of Sidon, Queen of Israel

• Marcus Aurelius: Plato's Philosopher King

• Parmenides and the Path of Truth

• Pausanius' Guide To Ancient Athens

• Plato: The Poet Aristocles

• Plato's Euthyphro: Piety and Pretension

• Plato's Lie In The Soul

• Protagoras of Abdera: Of All Things Man Is The Measure

• Protagoras's Paradox

• Queen Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amon, Pharaoh of Egypt

• Roman Household Spirits: Manes, Panes and Lares

• Shabti Dolls: The Workforce in the Afterlife

• St. Augustine: from The Literal Meaning of Genesis

• Tacitus on Boudicca's Revolt

• The After-Life In Ancient Greece

• The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood and the Meaning of Suffering

• The Battle of Actium

• The Battle of Actium: Birth of an Empire

• The Battle of Chaeronea

• The Battle of Kadesh & the Poem of Pentaur

• The Battle of Kadesh and the First Peace Treaty

• The Battle of Pelusium: A Victory Decided by Cats

• The Battle of Zama - The Beginning of Roman Conquest

• The Egyptian Afterlife and The Feather of Truth

• The Eleusinian Mysteries: The Rites of Demeter

• The Eternal Life of Gilgamesh

• The Five Gifts of Hathor: Gratitude in Ancient Egypt

• The Forty-Two Judges

• The Gifts of Isis: Women's Status in Ancient Egypt

• The Greek Phalanx

• The Hellenistic World: The World of Alexander the Great

• The Hymn to Ninkasi, Goddess of Beer

• The Island Kingdom of Aegina: The Old Gods Still Whisper Their Truths

• The Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi - No "Sumerian Job"

• The Meroe Head

• The Mesopotamian Pantheon

• The Myth of Adapa

• The Myth of Etana

• The Price of Greed: Hannibal's Betrayal by Carthage

• The Pyramid Texts: Guide to the Afterlife

• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

• The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Epic

• Theseus and the Minotaur at Knossos

• Theseus and The Minotaur: More Than A Myth

• Xenophanes the Visionary Poet Philosopher

• Xenophon's Defense of Socrates

• Zeno of Elea and the Art of Dialectic

• Zeno's Paradoxes: The Illusion of Motion