This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the…
Documents in extraordinary detail the habits, customs, art and methods of the Egyptian civilization. Covers the arrangement of houses, games and amusements, music and instruments, armor, transportation, festivals, farming methods, laws and scientific…