The Acharnians

The Acharnians

Author: Aristophanes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1625580681

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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.


The Royal Society, 1660–1940

The Royal Society, 1660–1940

Author: Henry George Lyons

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1944

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1107492815

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This book is an administrative history of the Royal Society, written by its Treasurer Sir Henry Lyons (1864-1944). In it, he reviews the way in which the Society's council governed its affairs during the two and a half centuries in which it gained its reputation in the scientific world.