Ancient Rome: Politicians
Bingley
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Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Plutarch: Part 3/3
A look at Acts 4 and 5 of Shakespeare's Coriolanus and the North translation.
Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Plutarch: Part 2/3
Shakespeare's Coriolanus Acts 2 and 3 and the North translation
Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Plutarch: Part 1/3
Shakespeare's play "Coriolanus" was based on Sir Thomas North's translation of a French translation of Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus. We start a detailed comparison of Shakespeare's play and the North translation.
Coriolanus leads the Volscians against Rome. Who can stop him?
Who was Coriolanus and how did he get his name?
Brutus and Publius Valerius launched a revolution, making Rome a republic rather than a monarchy. But then what happened?
Agesilaus II, King of Sparta: Part 3/3
Agesilaus and Sparta from Leuctra to Agesilaus' death on the way home from Egypt
Agesilaus II, King of Sparta: Part 2/3
Agesilaus and the decline of Sparta
Agesilaus II, King of Sparta: Part 1/3
The Spartans were warned by an oracle against having a lame king. Agesilaus II became king despite his lameness. Would the prophesy come true?
Eumenes was a brilliant general but he was betrayed to the enemy by his own men.