Philip Freeman
Philip Freeman is a renowned author and scholar specializing in classics and Celtic studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at various academic institutions. Freeman is known for his engaging works on ancient history, mythology, and religion, bringing the ancient world to life for modern readers. His books, including biographies of notable historical figures, are celebrated for their accessibility and scholarly insight.
Book summaries for books written by Philip Freeman
Quotes
Beware the ides of March.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings.
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Et tu, Brute?
Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
The noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times.