prophets

PEOPLE

John of Patmos wrote the Bible's most unusual book after he was exiled by the ancient Romans.

PLACES

High on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, the sanctuary of Delphi was the most famous oracle of the ancient world, a priestess of the Greek god Apollo, who could shape the course of history.

PEOPLE

"I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent," even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes...

INSTANT

"I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent," even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes...



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