The Lives of the Twelve Caesars/ On Julius Caesar by Suetonius, ( @ 121 A.D.) Content Question: What are the good and bad qualities described? Analysis Question: How do the criticisms show reasons for his assassination? Evaluative Questions: How does …
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Xenophon, The Polity of the Spartans (@ 375 BCE) Content Question: What are the virtues which Lykurgus wanted to establish? Analysis Question: How do these compare with Athenian virtues (see next)? Evaluative Questions: How difficult was it to maintain the …
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Caesarius of Heisterbach: TWO HERETICS WORKED MIRACLES BY THE AID OF THE DEVIL (from Dialogus Miraculorum) Caesarius of Heisterbach was possibly born and certainly educated in Cologne. After some inward struggle he became a Cistercian monk at the monastery of …
Boccaccio, The Decameron The Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio lived through the plague as it ravaged the city of Florence in 1348. The experience inspired him to write The Decameron, a story of seven men and three women who escape the …