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Anywhere else on the coasts of the Mediterranean

The army mustered by this new Macedonian Perseus, in 171 BCE, according to the Roman historian Livy

The standard Greek terms for these would soon become established as, respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

some supporting Macedonia, others, including Athens, supporting Rome.

Among them was Polybius, who would spend the next twenty years of his life there

writing the greater part of his History and trying to make sense of it all.

From then on, this would remain the official title, in Greek, of every ruler to rule from Constantinople

The city is known to the Hittites as Millawanda and will later enter Greek history under the name Miletus.

couple of hundred miles to the north and slightly to the west, the strait known as the Dardanelles

Even Bohemond, the son of Robert Guiscard, who had fought against Byzantium before

into their hands and enslaved the children and women.

The fate of Melos was by no means the only atrocity recorded by Thucydides

that trumps any residual loyalty that some may have felt towards the resurgent Greek-speaking state of Byzantium.

eventually to become known by the alternative Greek name, which may be no less ancient, Troy (Troia).

in broad daylight in the centre of Rome.

Athenian politician Lycurgus pronounced the obituary in 330 BCE

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself', declares Paul in one of his most frequently quoted sentences.

The land is like the garden of Eden before them," wrote the author of Joel, "but after them a desolate wilderness.

I'm at the age now, when I meet a woman sixty years old, she's too young for me.

if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

Meow!" said the chicken.

Kitsch is a sentimentalization of reality in response to cultural failure. The greater the failure, the more malignant the sentimentalization.

History," Bagehot wrote, "is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

Mastery is an enabling condition for originality, which in turn, is a generative condition for mastery. The modes are interdependent.