Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Artemis, goddess of the hunt, pursued a bitter and relentless vengeance upon a king who carelessly slighted her.
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When he caught his wife with her lover, the ugly blacksmith of the gods showed that he was not without his pride.
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As the Persian Empire’s grip tightened by land and sea, it fell to one man to unite Greece in a last desperate bid to break it.
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The blessing of trade free from political interference was one of most important insights in British, indeed world history.
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Horatius Cocles was the last man standing between Rome’s republic and the return of totalitarian government in 509 BC.
The people of Rome suddenly turned their back on centuries of ‘sport’ - all because of one harmless old man.