Early Roman

In this extensive sequel to Science Education in the Early Roman Empire, Dr. Richard Carrier explores the social history of scientists in the Roman era. Was science in decline or experiencing a revival under the Romans? What was an ancient scientist thought to be and do? Who were they, and who funded their research? And how did pagans differ from their Christian peers in their views toward science and scientists?

Prometheus is the tale of a powerful god who helped to overthrow his fellow Titans and raise Zeus up to rule the skies. But when he stole fire to help mankind, Zeus punished him. Can anyone rescue Prometheus and bring peace to Mount Olympus?

This myth of Jason tells one of the oldest stories from Greek mythology. Jason tries to win back the throne, stolen from his father, but is challenged to a dangerous adventure to prove his skills. He gathers the greatest of the heroes, constructs a ship called the Argo and sails to the edges of the known world to attempt to win the fabled Fleece. Along the way he takes on the winged Harpies, fire-breathing bulls and a dangerous serpent. Can he win the heart of the local princess and reclaim the throne for his family back in Greece?

This is the tale of a hero who travels to meet his father for the first time, but faces many challenges on the road to Athens. He takes on sneaky Sinis, a wild boar, the wrestler Kerkyon and a giant crab! At the city of Athens he must try to break a curse, cast upon its people by the king of Crete. He volunteers to travel to face the Minotaur and break this spell, before finally returning home to an unexpected piece of news.

Achilles is the story of the greatest warrior that ever lived. Raised on the hillsides of Greece by a centaur, he travels to Troy to fight in the battle for Queen Helen. But when tragedy strikes, he fights gods and heroes which leads to him becoming a legend of the Greek world.

Bellerophon is the story of a young hero who befriends the winged horse Pegasus, takes on the ferocious beast, the Chimera, defeats armies and returns victorious, much to the surprise of his host, King Iobates. But his tale does not end there and you can learn about his glorious highs and dangerous lows through our Greek myth audiobook for kids.

Born from a magical egg, Helen is the daughter of Zeus and has a most unusual start to life. But she is no ordinary princess as she draws the attention of leaders and kings throughout Greece. Mixed up in the meddling of the gods, her journey to the city of Troy and her escape back to Greece is a tale of love, magic, adventure and family. Helen joins the other multi-award winning books in Early Myths collection; the perfect way to introduce kids to Greek myths, aimed at a young audience from ages 4 to 10.

Orpheus is the twelfth book in the Early Myths collection, and tells the myth of a musician who holds magical powers over nature and people. Orpheus falls in love but through a tragic accident loses his partner and must travel deep into the Underworld to try to persuade Hades to allow him to bring his wife home once again. Follow the tale as Orpheus joins the Argonauts on their quest, captivates gods and goddesses with his lyre and song, and completes one of the greatest journeys in Greek myth.

Herakles is the tale of one of the most powerful heroes who needs to tame his strength. He is told he must take on the twelve great Labours, battling with monsters, controlling rivers, wrestling with lions, visiting the Underworld and challenging the warrior Amazons. But can he succeed and what will be his final reward?

Throughout the Roman Empire cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more.

In this entertaining and enlightening guide, best-selling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character - from emperor to slave girl, gladiator to astrologer, medicine woman to water-clock maker - and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives.

Here, in this second collection of Socratic Dialogues from Plato's Early Period, read by David Rintoul as Socrates with a full cast, are contrasting six works. Often, as with Gorgias, which opens the recording, Socrates combats the popular subjects of sophistry and rhetoric, in direct conversation with Gorgias (a leading sophist teacher), and with one of his pupils, Callicles.

Discover the Holy Roman Empire: The Empire That Shaped Modern EuropeStep into the fascinating story of the Holy Roman Empire, a powerful force that connected the old world to the new. This audiobook shows how the empire's impact is still felt today, from the battles of World War I to the ideas behind Nazi Germany. Learn about the empire's rise to power and the rulers who changed history.

Here are the Socratic Dialogues presented as Plato designed them to be - living discussions between friends and protagonists, with the personality of Socrates himself coming alive as he deals with a host of subjects, from justice and inspiration to courage, poetry and the gods. Plato's Socratic Dialogues provide a bedrock for classical Western philosophy. For centuries they have been read, studied and discussed via the flat pages of books, but the ideal medium for them is the spoken word.

Plato is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy. This audiobook contains Plato's most notable books. Contents:The Apology; Crito; Charmides; Laches; Lysis; Menexenus; Ion; Meno

Cultural Christians in the Early Church, which aims to be both historical and practical, argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. Using different categories of sins as its organizing principle, the book considers the challenge of culture to the earliest converts to Christianity, as they struggled to live on mission in the Greco-Roman cultural milieu of the Roman Empire.

This book welcomes listeners to appreciate the origins of Christianity within the Roman world in which early Christianity got its first foothold. It does that by immersing listeners in the life and culture of two thriving first-century towns—Pompeii and Herculaneum. Those towns (destroyed in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE) act as showpieces of the world into which the early Christian movement was spreading.

Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped the beginnings of philosophy. Adam Nicolson travels through this transforming world and asks what light these ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions.

In How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and strange, this book reintroduces us to our earliest thinkers through the lands they inhabited. To know the mental occupations of Homer or Heraclitus, one must visit their cities, sail their seas, and find landscapes not overwhelmed by the millennia that have passed but retain the atmosphere of that ancient life. Nicolson takes us to the dawn of investigative thought and a nexus of cross-cultural connection.

The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. Written during the early Seventies, and intended mostly as prefaces, they are extremely interesting, since traces of Nietzsche's later tenets - like Slave and Master morality, the Superman - can be found everywhere. But they are also very valuable on account of the young philosopher's daring and able handling of difficult and abstruse subjects.