The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during t...
The *Life of Apollonius of Tyana* is a biographical account of the life and teachings of Apollonius, a purportedly wonder-working philosopher and teac...
In "De Clementia" (On Clemency), Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher and advisor to Emperor Nero, explores the concept of clemency as a virtue of good g...
The Crusades were religious wars fought between 1096 and 1272 to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. According to the Latin Church, Crusaders wer...