Sparks Commentary

It’s long been believed by the public that Marie Antoinette said the famous (or rather, infamous) line: “Let them eat cakes.” Modern histo...

“[Chaerephon] went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him … whether anyone was wiser than I was, and the Pythian prophetess ans...

You've probably heard of the six “journalist's questions”: who, what, when, where, how, and why. To a large degree, they are also ...

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates at his trial, as recorded by Plato's “Apology” Before beginning this project...

"Written by a team of pioneering archaeologists and acknowledged experts working at the cutting edge of Egyptology ... " - Th...

"The term 'Near East' is not widely used today. It has survived in a scholarship rooted in the nineteenth century when it was...

"Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans , and of the Stoicks , encountered him [Paul]. And some said, What will this babbler say...

"The great historian Edward Gibbon was right when he said that the story of the fall of the Empire was ' simple and obvious '...

"The history of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a count...

"One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past . Washington, Jefferson,...

My theory on learning history is that most people are interested in the subject - they just don't all realize it.

"History is about high achievement, glorious works of art, music, architecture, literature, philosophy, science and medicine - not ju...

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