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...Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is perhaps not surprising that religion figured prominently, with many accounts of what would one day be called Buddhism. Well into the nineteenth century, Europeans divided the population of the world into four......

...Troy. We know about them through poems which were orally transmitted through the centuries until they reached their final form under the name of a supreme poet we call Homer. The events of Troy that we know about in the poems occurred in about the twelfth century BC and we think that Homer’s poems date to about the end of the eighth century. Paula James voice-over One...

...le m’ ghaol gu taobh a' chaochain iomallaich, chrom i h-aodann sios ri bhruaich ‘s cha robh a thuar fhéin tuilleadh air. Rainig mi a’ chluaineag chéin a rithist liom fhéin iomadh uair, agus nuair choimhead mi ‘san t-srulaich cha rogh ach gnuis té m’ ulaidh innt’. Ach bha na glinn is iad a’ falbh is calbh nam beann gun fhuireach rium, cha robh a choltas...

...Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of every week; the Death of Julius Caesar, and other stories out of Plutarch, which they never tire of; a shelf full of English history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur, down to the royal Henries, which men hear eagerly; and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales, and Spanish voyages, which all the...