Bonaparte’s principle was, as he himself has often told me, to look upon religions as the work of men, but to respect them everywhere as...

They had with them Onomakritos, an Athenian oraclemonger and a compiler of the oracles of Mousaios, with whom they had earlier reconciled...

It was Kleomenes who had come up with the idea to refer this question to the Pythia, and he next gained the support of Kobon son of...

In Greek Mythology Ixion was deceived by Zeus into coupling with a cloud which he believed to be the goddess Hera and produced the...

It was this same princess by whom a remarkable deception was planned. She had her tomb constructed in the upper part of one of the principal gateways of the city, high above the heads of the passers-by, with this inscription cut upon it: ‘If there be one among my successors on the throne of Babylon who is in want of treasure, let him open my tomb, and take as much as he chooses – not, however, unless he be truly in want, for it will not be for his good.’ This tomb continued u

It was in the twelfth year of the war that the following mischance occurred from the firing of the harvest-fields. Scarcely had the corn been set alight by the soldiers when a violent wind carried the flames against the temple of Athene Assesia, which caught fire and was burnt to the ground. At the time no one made any account of the circumstance; but afterwards, on the return of the army to Sardis, Alyattes fell sick. His illness continued, whereupon, either advised thereto

Thus reduced, Hannibal had recourse to stratagem; he caused two thousand head of oxen which he had in his camp to have torches or dry fagots well fastened to their horns, and lighting them in the beginning of the night, ordered the beasts to be driven on towards the heights commanding the passages out of the valley and the enemy’s posts; when this was done, he made his army in the dark leisurely march after them. The oxen at first kept a slow orderly pace, and with their ligh

These were nearly all “wild cat” mines, and wholly worthless, but nobody believed it then. The “Ophir,” the “Gould & Curry,” the “Mexican,” and other great mines on the Comstock lead in Virginia and Gold Hill were turning out huge piles of rich rock every day, and every man believed that his little wild cat claim was as good as any on the “main lead” and would infallibly be worth a thousand dollars a foot when he “got down where it came in solid.” Poor fellow, he was blessedl

Mark Twain spend some years in California during the gold rush. Upon arrival he was sure that he was going to strike it rich. After several weeks he was walking around a mine and found a large gold rock. He felt for sure that he had struck it rich. The other miners were hardened men and they had long given up on the naïve dream of getting rich quick. Twain could not wait to show them what he found.

As military governor of Philadelphia during the patriot occupation, however, Arnold was harried by charges of corruption, which he indignantly dismissed as "false, malicious, and scandalous." He was exonerated of all but two minor charges by a court-martial and got off with a reprimand from Washington. Yet by this point, the embittered Arnold, increasingly dubious about American prospects, had decided to engage in treason, relaying secret information about troop movements to