Metzengerstein
Pestis eram vivus—moriens tua mors ero. Martin Luther. Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to the story I have to tell?…
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Category: LITERATURE
Bon-Bon
Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac Je suis plus savant que Balzac- Plus sage que Pibrac; Mon brass seul faisant l’attaque De la nation Coseaque, La mettroit au sac;…
A Tale of Jerusalem
Intensos rigidam in frontem ascendere canos Passus erat Lucan –a bristly bore. “Let us hurry to the walls,” said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the…
Philip II King of Macedonia
PHILIP II. (382-336 BC), king of Macedonia, the son of Amyntas II., and the Lyncestian Eurydice, reigned 359-336. At his birth the Macedonian kingdom, including the turbulent peoples of the…
Alexander the Great
Alexan’der the Great, son of Philip of Macedon, was born at Pella, in 356 B. C. Gifted by nature and carefully educated by Aristotle, he early gave promise of his…
The Great Greek King Alexander of Macedon
ALEXANDER III, known as The Great[1] (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, was the son of Philip II. of Macedon, and Olympias, an Epirote princess. His father was pre-eminent for practical…
Letter to President Obama about Macedonia
Preface This letter about ancient Macedonia was sent to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, by 200 Classical Scholars from around the world. The number of…
A Dialogue between Alexander the Great, and Diogenes the Cynic
ALEXANDER. What fellow art thou, who darest thus to lie at thy ease in our presence, when all others, as thou seest, rise to do us homage? dost thou not know…