Die GreatDeath of Hector in the Iliad: 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and...
Last words of Julian"Nor am I ashamed to confess that I have long known, from prophecy, that I should fall by the sword. And therefore do I venerate the...
Life of Bitterness Timon was a citizen of Athens, and lived much about the Peloponnesian war, as may be seen by the comedies of Aristophanes and Plato, in...
Last words of Augustus After that, calling in his friends and asking whether it seemed to them that he had played the comedy of life fitly, he added the tag:...
Final wishesThese are the final wishes of Tiberius, emperor of Rome: That is what I want later generations to remember. They will do more than...