Literature

9 09, 2017

Maya writing – Ancient Central America

By |2019-12-12T05:47:45-08:00September 9th, 2017|Central America, Literature|Comments Off on Maya writing – Ancient Central America

Maya writing on a page from the Madrid Codex Did the Maya invent writing themselves? It's possible that the Maya learned how to write from the Olmec, but there aren't any [...]

9 09, 2017

Maize Mountain – A Mayan story about corn

By |2019-11-23T08:16:34-08:00September 9th, 2017|Central America, Literature|Comments Off on Maize Mountain – A Mayan story about corn

A bolt of lightning in the sky, like the one that split open Maize Mountain Where did this story come from? Maya people liked to tell a story about how people [...]

9 09, 2017

Aztec language, writing, and literature

By |2019-02-07T06:49:29-08:00September 9th, 2017|Central America, Literature|Comments Off on Aztec language, writing, and literature

An Aztec book, or codex (ca 1500 AD) Aztec writing and the Maya The Aztec system of writing was very much like the Maya system. Probably the Aztec people learned how to write [...]

4 09, 2017

Pliny the Younger and his Letters – Roman history

By |2017-09-04T08:27:09-07:00September 4th, 2017|History, Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Pliny the Younger and his Letters – Roman history

Forum of Pompeii Pliny the Younger was the nephew of Pliny the Elder. He was a teenager visiting his uncle near Pompeii when his uncle died in the eruption. Pliny the Younger, however, did [...]

4 09, 2017

Tacitus – Roman historian – ancient Rome

By |2017-09-04T08:11:49-07:00September 4th, 2017|History, Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Tacitus – Roman historian – ancient Rome

The tombstone of Tacitus Tacitus' work is as well known for his skill in writing history as it is for the value of the facts he presents. His beautiful and [...]

4 09, 2017

Suetonius – Roman historian – Lives of the Caesars

By |2017-09-04T08:00:03-07:00September 4th, 2017|History, Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Suetonius – Roman historian – Lives of the Caesars

A manuscript of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars, copied out in Austria in the 1470s Suetonius lived just a little later than Seneca, during the reign of the Flavian emperors and then [...]

4 09, 2017

Seneca – Roman philosophy – ancient Rome

By |2017-09-04T01:17:29-07:00September 4th, 2017|Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Seneca – Roman philosophy – ancient Rome

Seneca, the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca was one of the great writers of the Julio-Claudianperiod in Rome. He was born in the Roman province of Spain about 3 BC. But his [...]

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