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Book Synopsis Sage and Emperor by : Philip A. Stadter
Download or read book Sage and Emperor written by Philip A. Stadter and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overall objective is to establish the context of Plutarch's work in the society and the historical circumstances for which it was written.
Book Synopsis Sage and Emperor by : Philip A. Stadter
Download or read book Sage and Emperor written by Philip A. Stadter and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Price of Having a Sage-emperor by : Jinxing Huang
Download or read book The Price of Having a Sage-emperor written by Jinxing Huang and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by : Donald J. Robertson
Download or read book How to Think Like a Roman Emperor written by Donald J. Robertson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." —Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together seamlessly to provide a compelling modern-day guide to the Stoic wisdom followed by countless individuals throughout the centuries as a path to achieving greater fulfillment and emotional resilience. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian—taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day—through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and guides readers through applying the same methods to their own lives. Combining remarkable stories from Marcus’s life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face today.
Book Synopsis Septimius Severus and the Roman Army by : Michael Sage
Download or read book Septimius Severus and the Roman Army written by Michael Sage and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assassination of Emperor Commodus in 192 sparked a civil war. Septimius Severus emerged as the eventual victor and his dynasty (the Severans) ruled until 235. He fought numerous campaigns, against both internal rivals and external enemies, extending the Empire to the east (adding Mesopotamia), the south (in Africa) and the north (beyond Hadrian's Wall). The military aspects of his reign, including his reforms of the army, are the main focus of this new study. After discussing his early career and governorship of Pannonia, Michael Sage narrates his war with Pescennius Niger, the siege of Byzantium, and the campaign in northern Mesopotamia that added it as a province. The much more difficult campaign against Clodius Albinus in Gaul is also studied in detail, as is that in North Africa. The narrative concludes with an account of the last campaign in Britain and Severus’ death. The final chapters analyze Septimius’ reforms of the army and assess their impact on events of the next seventy years until the accession of Diocletian. His greatest weakness was his love for his family. Like Marcus Aurelius he loved his children too much. They failed to maintain what he had bequeathed them.
Download or read book The Emperor's Mate written by May Sage and published by Madam's Books. This book was released on with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They believed humans were weak; until her. The aliens ruling over the galaxy knew humans were compatible with their species, but they never expected to find a match quite so perfect for their Emperor. Lena should have been nothing more than an incubator - she was supposed to have the Emperor's child, and then get back to her life. But then, they made the mistake of threatening that child... The Emperor's Mate is a standalone sci-fi romance following three stories - previously published as Rise, Rage, and Rule between 2015 and 2016. It has been re-edited. Expect swear words and some adult situations.
Book Synopsis Of Ascetics and Emperors by : Saralabala Mitra
Download or read book Of Ascetics and Emperors written by Saralabala Mitra and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Ascetics and Emperors: Teachings of an Indian Sage is an English translation of Saralabala Mitra's book, Katha Prasanga (Spiritual Discourses). Here one can find the spiritual discourses of the renowned Indian sage, Balananda Brahmachari. His monastery in India was a place of pilgrimage for innumerable spiritual seekers. Attracted by his presence, people from all walks of life came to him. To each and every one, the great sage gave generously and poured out all the precious wealth that lay in his spiritual treasure chest. Through the ages, India has maintained a tradition of spiritual teachers giving Dharma talks to all who care to listen. Listening to a good teacher can be extremely helpful; however, in the busy world of modern times, it is hard to find such sages and even harder for people to make time for them. This book overcomes the hurdles of time and space by transporting readers to a world where great seers taught the basic tenets of the spiritual path to all seekers. To make the extremely profound, complex, and esoteric ideas of Hinduism accessible to people from all backgrounds, Balananda Brahmachari used a variety of stories, anecdotes, parables, and quotations from real life experiences and the Hindu scriptures. Sometimes the discussions are highly philosophical and sometimes they are delightfully simple. What he says pours forth straight from his heart-the heart of an enlightened one who has practiced and realized what is written in the scriptures. If he could be present, in flesh and blood, before his devotees today and they asked him to say a few words of wisdom to them, here's what he would probably say: "Ulat Jao." This phrase literally means "turn yourself upside down," but the deeper meaning is "turn inwards." This has been the advice of all sages and all religions of all ages; they have all asked seekers to turn their gaze from the outside to the inside, from the mortal to the immortal, from the untrue to the true.
Book Synopsis A Sage-emperor Charm Offensive by : Rachel Leung
Download or read book A Sage-emperor Charm Offensive written by Rachel Leung and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stoic Sage written by René Brouwer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever book-length study of the influential Stoic concept of wisdom.
Download or read book The First Emperor written by Sima Qian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: 2007. Reissued 2009.
Book Synopsis Emperor of the World by : Anne A. Latowsky
Download or read book Emperor of the World written by Anne A. Latowsky and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages. The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism.
Book Synopsis Emperor Huizong by : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Download or read book Emperor Huizong written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. The first comprehensive English-language biography of this important monarch, Emperor Huizong is a nuanced portrait that corrects the prevailing view of Huizong as decadent and negligent. Patricia Ebrey recasts him as a ruler genuinely ambitious—if too much so—in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm. After a rocky start trying to overcome political animosities at court, Huizong turned his attention to the good he could do. He greatly expanded the court’s charitable ventures, founding schools, hospitals, orphanages, and paupers’ cemeteries. An accomplished artist, he surrounded himself with outstanding poets, painters, and musicians and built palaces, temples, and gardens of unsurpassed splendor. What is often overlooked, Ebrey points out, is the importance of religious Daoism in Huizong’s understanding of his role. He treated Daoist spiritual masters with great deference, wrote scriptural commentaries, and urged his subjects to adopt his beliefs and practices. This devotion to the Daoist vision of sacred kingship eventually alienated the Confucian mainstream and compromised his ability to govern. Readers will welcome this lively biography, which adds new dimensions to our understanding of a passionate and paradoxical ruler who, so many centuries later, continues to inspire both admiration and disapproval.
Book Synopsis Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China by : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Download or read book Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huizong was an exceptional emperor who lived through momentous times. A man of many talents, he wrote poetry and created his own distinctive calligraphy style; collected paintings, calligraphies, and antiquities on a large scale; promoted Daoism; and involved himself in the training of court artists, the layout of gardens, and reforms of music and medicine. The quarter century when Huizong ruled is just as fascinating. The greatly enlarged scholar-official class had come into its own but was deeply divided by factional strife. The long struggle between the Chinese state and its northern neighbors entered a new phase when Song proved unable to defend itself against the newly emergent Jurchen state of Jin. Huizong and thousands of members of his family and court were taken captive, and the Song dynasty had to recreate itself in the South.
Book Synopsis The Emperor of Heaven by : Li Donghao
Download or read book The Emperor of Heaven written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 3037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhuo Yu is sixteen years old, seven feet tall and has a strong body. He has short hair, healthy wheat skin, a knife-like face full of youthful and lively breath, and a pair of dark eyes with cheerful and lively light. He is dressed in dirty rags, rolled up his trousers and wore a pair of dirty cloth shoes on his feet, which is extremely out of tune with his thin and handsome face.
Book Synopsis Leading with Self-awareness by : Irene Morrison-Moncure
Download or read book Leading with Self-awareness written by Irene Morrison-Moncure and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case guides students to evaluate the role of emotional intelligence in ethical decision-making by considering the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor, as documented by the Roman biographer Suetonius. Suetonius chronicled the lives of many Roman emperors, listing both their accomplishments and misdeeds, and his focus on an emperor's virtues and vices has prompted readers to judge each emperor as either "good" or "bad." Many have judged Tiberius as a bad emperor, and even as a tyrant. But Suetonius suggests that Tiberius began his rule as a conscientious leader who demonstrated self-awareness and a high level of emotional intelligence. This challenges us to view Tiberius in a different light and to consider the ethics of a bad person being a good leader. Through the evidence presented in Suetonius's "Life of Tiberius," this case examines how the second Roman emperor used self-awareness and ethical decision-making to navigate the temptations of his new imperial role and evaluates the steps that Tiberius took in the early years of his reign to protect Rome from his incompatibilities, vices, and eventual abuses of power.
Book Synopsis Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi by : Jonathan D. Spence
Download or read book Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Synopsis The Great Sage Confucius by : Chen Wangheng
Download or read book The Great Sage Confucius written by Chen Wangheng and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confucius was a man who truly believed in learning, and he himself pursued learning all his life. He was convinced that learning was for the purpose of serving the government and, ultimately, serving the people.
