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THE PNEUMATICS OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK TRANSLATED FOR AND EDITED BY BENNET WOODCROFT PROFESSOR OF MACHINERY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON LONDON TAYLOR WALTON AND MABERLY UPPER GOWER STREET AND IVY LANE PATERNOSTER ROW 1851 Contents Editors Preface. Translators Preface. A Treatise on Pneumatics. 1. The bent Siphon 2. Concentric or inclosed Siphon 3. Uniform discharge Siphon ...

Alexander conquered much of what was then the civilized world, governed by his divine ambition of the world conquest and creation of universal world monarchy.

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Alexander the Great: A Bibliography Web Material: Timothy Spaldings page. Konrad Kinzl's page James Davidson's page Back to Home Page visitors since 23.09.99 (counter courtesy of digits.com) Full Bibliography General: Monographs on Alexander Sourcebooks and collections of articles Special Topics: Alexander and India Military: Organisation and Battles Sources: Lost and Extant See also John ...

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Hippocrates, the father of medicine Hippocratic Oath -- Classical Version I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if ...

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The life and family of Alexander III of Macedon.

A L E X A N D E R The Great (356 -323 B.C.) A L E X A N D R O S by Plutarch In an amazing eleven-year journey of conquest, young Alexander of Macedonia conquered all the way from Egypt to India. Behind him came Greek institutions and the Greek language, which became the standard of the ancient world. The intoxication of power caused Alexander to become strange to his friends, and he died ...

ALCMAN on Sparta The Suda Lexicon, s.v. Alcman: A Laconian of Messoa, wrongly called by Crates a Lydian of Sardis. A lyric poet, the son of Damas, or (according to some authorities) of Titaros. he flourished in the 37th Olympiad (632-629), when Ardys father of Alyattes was king of Lydia. He was of an extremely amorous disposition and the inventor of love-poems, but by birth a slave. He wrote six ...

P E R I C L E S The Olympian (495 - 429 B.C.) P E R I K L H S by Plutarch By the power of his eloquence, and the money embezzled from Athens' unwilling allies, Pericles built Athens into a beautiful city and a powerful empire. Athenian imperialism, however, soon led to war with Sparta. Go to Home Page for 15 Greek Heroes from Plutarch's Lives Augustus Caesar observed some foreigners at Rome ...

Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon (Alexander the Great, Alexander III of Macedon) (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedonia, born in late July 356 BC in Pela, Macedonia, the greatest military genius in history. He conquered the whole civilized world, governed by his divine ambition of the world conquest and creation of universal world monarchy.

ASPASIA ~ THE WOMAN BEHIND THE GREAT MEN of 5TH CENTURY B.C. Throughout history many great contributors have either been eliminated or left out of the western history, most of which are women, one being Aspasia of Miletus. Aspasia came to Athens from Miletus, she was a highly educated women, from a literate family. Aspasia is definetly an exception to the normal young women of the 5th century, ...

Pericles' Ideal of Democracy From Popper, Karl R., The Open Society and its Enemies, Rev. Ed., Princeton U. Press, 1950, p.181. Quoting Pericles' famous funeral oration as reported by Thucydides: Our political system does not compete with with institutions which are elsewhere in force. We do not copy our neighbors, but try to be an example. Our administration favors the many instead of the few: ...

Hephaistion (356 - 324 BC.) Hephaistion, was the son of Macedonian aristocrat Amyntas, and he was the dearest Alexander's friend ever since from his childhood, and for Roman historian Q. Curtius Rufus he is described as: omnium amicorum carissimus. From age 13 to 16 he and Alexander, at the park of Mieza, together with the other boys belonging to the Macedonian aristocracy were taught by ...

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