(As I read more of this text, I will keep adding to this post with book-by-book summaries, so don’t forget to come back and check
Category: Ancient Greece
Solon Solon was an Ancient Greek best known for his career as a politician and lawmaker, whose laws set the foundation for Athenian democracy. We
Thucydides was born in around 460 BC in Alimos, Athens. Little is known about his early life, and all that scholars know of him at
I’ve been learning about the Persian Wars recently, and am currently doing a MOOC with Hillsdale College and some Massolit courses on the subject. You
The Meno begins with Meno asking Socrates a question: Can virtue be taught, or is it only learnt through experience, or is one simply virtuous
This is summary is a type-up of some notes I took while doing a MOOC with Hillsdale College (the Michigan university I’d love to go
This summary of Ancient Sparta is a type-up of my notes on an excellent Massolit course by Prof. Paul Cartledge of Clare College, Cambridge. Perhaps
This week, I’m doing another course with Academus (I did an Ancient Greek one last week), this time on classical studies. I got to choose
Book One Herodotus begins his Histories with an opening sentence that states his intentions in writing the account: he aims to record the deeds of
This is an analysis of the writer Herodotus himself and the background and context that led to his account The Histories. I’m going to be