"We serve Caesar best by serving God first."
Zack Snyder, 300 (Sep 15), Pierre Manent, "What is a Nation?" (Sep 17) |
Themistocles (Sep 29), Cimon (Oct 1) |
Pericles (Oct 6), The Athenian Empire |
Nicias (Oct 13), The Peloponnesian War |
The Sicilian Expedition, Alcibiades (Oct 20) |
| Agesilaus (Oct 27), Alexander (Oct 29) |
Cato (Nov 3), Aemilius Paullus (Nov 5) |
Tiberius Gracchus (Nov 10), Gaius Gracchus (Nov 12) |
Pompey (Nov 24), Republican Rome |
Caesar (Dec 1), The Roman Empire |
Antony (Dec 8), The Birth of Europe |
200 words due on each date above wherever a leader's name is highlighted in bold. (18 in total.)
Follow the progress of our historical simulation of The Fall of Rome
Classics of Strategy and Diplomacy
The Byzantine Doctrine: "Take Me Back to Constantinople"
Victor Davis Hanson: Military Historian
What does the making of Europe owe to Greece and Rome?
Be sure to read Christopher Dawson on The Making of Europe, pp.3-95.
Christopher Dawson on "Europe and the Seven Stages of Western Culture" is also an excellent resource.
Rémi Brague on Roman "secondarity" and Western civilization is highly recommended.
Philippe Némo on What is the West? is also exceptional.
Jacques Maritain, On the Philosophy of History (New York: Scribner, 1957), is one of my favorites.
On-line editions of the Classics (including Plutarch): English, Greek, Latin
