John Lewis Ph.D. - History and Classical Ideals
esse quam videri
 

Courses

Images from the Classical World--and Elsewhere

Articles

Biographical Sketches

Book Reviews

Greco-Persian Wars

The Theban Wars

The Punic Wars

Japan, 1945

About Me

 

Casey at Za Za's, in Florence

Casey's Graduation, May, 2005

Fort Collins, Jan, 2007

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A current issue of import:

Chronology of Islamist Attacks on the United States in the Twentieth Century

 

Why Study History?

We exist in an understandable universe. Across the expanse of human history, Good Fortune and Calamity have resulted because people have chosen to act as they did, whether in ignorance or with conscious forethought. To study the past brings to us a vast palette of human events, by which we can connect our own lives to those who have come before us, and better understand our own Good Fortune and Calamity.

Esse quam videri -- "to be, rather than to seem" -- is a guide not only to understanding what has been, but also to what we are, and should be.

 

Books

Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens

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Early Greek Lawgivers

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Nothing Less than Victory: Military Offense and the Lessons of History

 

Detail from the North Doors of the Battisterio, Florence.

John Lewis, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University

 

Associate Professor of History, Ashland University

classicalideals@yahoo.com

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    Updated: 01/21/08


John Lewis Ph.D. - History and Classical Ideals