Background image: The Great Pyramid is the oldest and largest of the three Pyramids of Giza. These Fourth Dynasty (c. 2575 - 2465 BCE) pyramids were erected on a plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near present day Al-Jīzah (Giza) in northern Egypt. The pyramids were built by Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.
Persia falling to Alexander the Great signals the end of Achaemenid Empire.
Nicomachean Ethics is an Aristotelian exploration of the topic of ethical conduct, and the human capacity for happiness and goodness.
The Trial and Death of Socrates is an account depicting Socrates standing trial after being accused of two charges: impiety, and corrupting the youth. These charges were the legal consequence of “failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities”, as well as asking politico-philosophic questions of his students. These actions were thought to result in moral corruption, and therefore were punishable by death.
The Symposium is one of Plato's most influential works. It contains speeches on the subject of love, the Platonic form of beauty, and the basis of reality, and provides a portrait of Socrates.
Lysistrata is a Greek comedy by Aristophanes, and was originally performed in classical Athens. It was written during the final years of the war between Athens and Sparta, and depicts the wives of the warring cities’ attempt at peace. In the story, their method for promoting peace was ceasing romantic relations with their husbands and occupying the Acropolis, which housed the Athenian treasury.