takes a long time to do a sentence, but plutarch served well for that. and he kept those things going. so that combination. but most of the deep letters are the ones that have drawn the most attention on the world and were those to his best friend. and these were hidden. obviously, some of them were legal, but many weren't. they were hidden in gas mask canisters. they were dug up years later. people would find out where they were. and none of this would exist it can not for the best friend. he saved them. so many people asked to see them, and he stitched them together and made the book. >> and it's an interesting fact about all three of these books that are launching this series. in many ways they're not books that someone sat down to write for a particular audience, the tibetan book of the dead really also stitched together by the person who discovered those texts and sort of americanized them. bonhoeffer, certainly, never would have imagined his letter ors and papers being assembled in this form. and, of course, augustin, although we see him sitting an

starch with plutarch. it is possible you think you could never be engaged by the ancient life of caesar i promise that is not true. he had a long description of the way caesar would talk to his men. in order to prepare for battle and to get them in the proper mood of feeling powerful, one of the things he would do is pick up a stick and talk about the stick, the male member of and one is going to do to the enemy and as you read this you think oh my god! that is a guy who really has the capacity to get a lot of people to do a dangerous thing without thinking. it is very vivid. when you read these other fans, of the jewish war. probably a lot of people here are not sure which people i am talking about. this took place in the early years of what is now known as the christian era and it involved among others things the seed of the city of masada. i am sure a lot of people have heard about that. it is a marvelous place to visit. the jewish rebels secretive themselves in the city of masada and resisted a roman s