Hippocratic Writings

5 best books like Hippocratic Writings (Hippocrates): History of the Peloponnesian War, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Theaetetus, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

History of the Peloponnesian War

Author	Thucydides
ISBN	0140440399

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Author	Aeschylus
ISBN	0140443339

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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...

Theaetetus

Author	Plato
ISBN	0140444505

Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely...

Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish

Author

James Scott Bell

Craft an Engaging Plot

How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course?

With "Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure," you'll discover the answers...

The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

Author

Miriam Joseph

Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English....