Ancient History

"His father Amun strengthening his arm" - Annals

"effectively the female counterpart of the high priest." - Mark

"an essential part of the kingship" - Tyldesley

"obtain full publicity for his achievements" - Gardiner

"the pillar for the whole land." - Tomb of Rekhmir

"unusual" - Mieroop

"Thutmose III...truly epitomised the image of the warrior pharaoh" - Bradley

“I am a man who lacks beer in his house” - Deir el-Medina Worker

"Her pride was in the internal development of Egypt and in commercial enterprise" - Wilson

"his pride was in external expansion of Egypt" - Wilson

17 military campaigns over a 20 year period

"a great piece of propaganda" - Brier

"power struggle" - Mieroop

"stalemate" - Leprohon, Bryce, Kitchen

"extremely lucky" - Tyldesley

"defeat" - Schulman

"very biased Egyptian perspective" - Ritner

"it was left for the royal propaganda machine to turn the battle into a mighty victory" - Leprohon

"Revolution was already in the air" - Gardiner

"Suddenly the Aten was everywhere" - Tyldesley

"zenith of magnificence" - Gardiner

"Akhenaten had adopted a pacifist attitude toward the Egyptian empire in Asia" - Dorman

"widely regarded as the saviour of Egyptian traditions" - Reeves

"concerned himself less and less with affairs of the nation and empire and more and more with matters of the mind and spirit" - Hayes

"destroyed much, he created little" - Redford

"A religious maniac" - Pendelbury

"haunted as they always were by fear of a helot revolt" - Garland

"moderate and good" - Herodotus

"a work of administrative genius" - Garland

"I may obtain vengeance from the Athenians for the wrongs committed by them against the Persians and against my father." - Xerxes

"The Athenian dead were treated as heroes" - Cartledge

"regarded as heroes" - Garland

"democracy had proven more than a match for the Persians" – Garland

"eternal legacy as a symbol of moral victory in defeat" - Hyland

"it has always been the law that the weaker should be subject to the stronger" - Athenian Delegates

"an instrument of Athenian imperialism." - Garland

"Corinth forced Sparta to fight with threats of succession" - Dickens

"If they invade our country by land, we will invade theirs by sea" - Pericles

"The death of Pericles created a leadership vacuum at Athens" - Aldrete

"Dying like sheep" - Thucydides

"No fear of the gods or law of men" - Thucydides

"short-term hedonism" - Morley

"disaster" - Aldrete

"crucial turning point in the war" - Kagan

"government by the First Citizen" - Thucydides

"democracy in name only" - Kagan

"cautious, superstitious, ailing man" - Aldrete

"Without his intervention, they would have undoubtedly sailed against Sicily in 415, but there could have been no chance of their embarking on a major catastrophe." - Kagan

"They love him, they hate him, they cannot stand to be without him." - Aristophanes

"won the day, and the War, with a trick." Carteledge