"There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of …"

"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"I'm English, so obviously do not have a philosophy. I am a Christian, though, if you want to know about important bel…"

"Attila the Hun remains to this day a byword for savagery and destruction. His is one of the few names from antiquity …"

"It is widely believed that Christianity remained an essentially urban cult and that the population of the countryside…"

"On 2 August 216 BC the Carthaginian General Hannibal won one of the most complete battlefield victories in history. O…"

"Most battles from the Ancient World are now all but forgotten, for military as well as civil education has ceased to …"

"Hannibal won the battle through not only his dynamic leadership and the high quality of his army, but also because of…"