We are born twice: once when nature casts us into the world, and again when we lift the chisel and carve from ourselves something that resembles us.A man arrives in a strange land carrying the ashes of a homeland lost to war, half his family buried without a farewell, and a body slowly betraying him. The doctors hand him a verdict on a slip of paper — and that slip becomes both the blade that severs his old life and the antidote that saves it.Referred to on...

They taught us the world has two colours: white and black. Wolf and meat. Victor and vanquished. And that whoever stands in the middle has no colour at all.Then life comes, and teaches us otherwise.The Gray is a novel in five self-contained tales, each a portrait of an ordinary human being pushed to the single moment that reveals their true colour.A hardened man, alone at the end of his life, learns from a s...

What if a man who wrote nothing became the foundation of Western philosophy?The Complete Socrates Collection is the ultimate anthology of works capturing the life, thought, and paradox of history's most enigmatic philosopher. This modernized edition brings together the enduring writings of Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes-each offering a distinct and complementary lens into the mind and mission of Socrates.Spanning high philosophy, historical testimony,...

This is a SoundCraft Audiobooks production featuring digitally enhanced performances of some of history's greatest speeches - all presented as they might have originally been heard.The immersive audio experience presented here - complete with sound effects, music and atmospherics - allows the listener to feel as if they were in attendance when these speeches were first delivered. The orations are performed by a select group of amazing actors who uniquely capture the essence, power ...

What if one man's search for truth could shape the future of civilization?The Complete Plato & Socrates Collection presents the definitive anthology of the foundational works that defined ethics, politics, logic, love, death, and the human condition for millennia to come. This modern, reader-friendly translation brings together the greatest dialogues and testimonies written by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes-the men who knew Socrates and captured the power of ...

Words of wisdom, rhymes and revelations that touch and inspire the Soul. These poems are transcribed from an "inner voice" of Socrates The Messenger, heard in deep silence through meditation. Allow the Higher Consciousness to move through you with these words of wisdom and inspiration from the Creator.An intimate selection chosen from over 300 poems, this work will help you arrive to a new understanding of yourself and beyond. Remember the truth of who you are as y...

Also known as Socrates Scholasticus, the fifth-century Byzantine historian Socrates of Constantinople was the first layman to write church history. His ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ covers the history of late ancient Christianity from AD 305 to 439. Composed in seven books, it is written in simple and concise Greek, offering an impartial account of important events, occasionally embellished with anecdotes from eyewitnesses. An indispensable documentary source for fourth and early fifth ...

Socrates (Σωκράτης), born in Athens around 470 BC, was a Greek philosopher who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, he authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and ...

One of the main duties of every Christian is to constantly encourage and persuade other people about the rewards of eternity. Persuasion means to captivate the heart of a person for a cause. We are supposed to exhort and provoke each other unto good works even as the day of Jesus' return approaches. This is such a crucial matter because we can miss the rewards and incur discipline, if we do not keep it in sight.'And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works...

Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? How has this event shaped the imagination of contemporary filmmakers, and how might one define the new national cinema that has emerged as a result? This book explores such questions by analysing a range of Greek-Cypriot films that have hitherto received little or no critical discussion.The book adopts a predominantly conceptual approach, situating contemporary Greek-Cypriot cinema within a specific cultural...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This work comprises the 'Ecclesiastical History'. Until the beginning of the fourth century historiography remained a pagan science. With the exception of the Acts of the Apostles and its apocryphal imitations, no sort of attempt hadbeen made to record even the...

The great discovery that no one wanted to makeIt's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded—along with everything they'd come to know ab...