Abstract Williams’ discussion of dilemmas in his classic paper “Ethical consistency” famously focuses on an example that has not bothered commentators and respondents to Williams as much it should have them: the Agamemnon Aeschylus’ play. In this I try pick apart what wants say from is really going text he unfortunately chooses for example. compare with four other crucial passage play: Plato, S...

Aeschylus' Oresteia is a key text for analyzing the relationship between law and drama both because it includes the earliest surviving instance of a trial scene in western drama and because it is explicitly concerned with the nature of trials, telling a story of repeated conflict that can only be resolved by the invention of the trial as a new form of action. First produced in Athens in 458 B.C...

Abstract Of the many accounts of Battle Milvian Bridge in a.d. 312 written soon after conflict, only those Eusebius Caesarea have Maxentius cross Tiber on a bridge boats to face forces Constantine. This detail, it is here argued, suggests that may be seen as latter-day Xerxes, Persian emperor who, preparation for his invasion Greece 480 b.c. , famously spanned Hellespont with pair boat-bridges....