Laura Reagan – Page 28 – Baiting the Bear

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Livy, Histories of Rome

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:October 15, 0068
Post category:Library - Ancients

The subjects to which I would ask each of my readers to devote his earnest attention are these-the life and morals of the community; the men and the qualities by which through domestic policy and foreign war dominion was won and extended. Then as the standard of morality gradually lowers, let him follow the decay of the national character, observing how at first it slowly sinks, then slips downward more and more rapidly, and finally begins to plunge into headlong ruin, until he reaches these days, in which we can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.

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Cicero, In Catilium

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:October 15, 0065
Post category:Library - Ancients

When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now? Do not the nightly guards placed on the Palatine Hill—do not the watches posted throughout the city—does not the alarm of the people, and the union of all good men—does not the precaution taken of assembling the senate in this most defensible place—do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present, have any effect upon you? Do you not feel that your plans are detected? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which every one here possesses of it? What is there that you did last night, what the night before— where is it that you were—who was there that you summoned to meet you—what design was there which was adopted by you, with which you think that any one of us is unacquainted? [2]

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Classical Hellenistic Architecture and Art History

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 0033
Post category:Excurses

"And he who would proceed rightly should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms and first, if directed by his instructor, to love one such form only—out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will himself perceive that the beauty of any bodily form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in all visible forms is one and the same!"

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Maps for Peloponnesian War

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 0031
Post category:Excurses

Maps for Peloponnesian War

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Aristotle On Poetics

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:October 1, 0020
Post category:Library - Ancients

For tragedy is an imitation, not of human beings, but of actions and of life.

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Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:December 31, 0011
Post category:Library - Ancients

"Now let the weeping cease; let no one mourn again. These things are bound in fate."

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Ovid Metamorphoses

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 27, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

"Whether the creator god, source of a better world, seeded it from the divine, or the newborn earth just drawn from the highest heavens still contained fragments related to the skies, so that Prometheus, blending them with streams of rain, moulded them into an image of the all-controlling gods. While other animals look downwards at the ground, he gave human beings an upturned aspect, commanding them to look towards the skies, and, upright, raise their face to the stars."

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Tacitus, Agricola

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 26, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

..."he had the rare faculty of being familiar without weakening his authority and austere without forfeiting people's affection." p. 59

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Book of John

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 25, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

Before the world was created, the Word already existed; he was with God, and he was the same as God. From the very beginning the word was with God. Through…

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Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 20, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

Since the occasion has thus brought public morals under my notice, the subject itself seems to call upon me to look back, and briefly to describe the conduct of our ancestors in peace and war; how they managed the state, and how powerful they left it; and how, by gradual alteration, it became, from being the most virtuous, the most vicious and depraved.