History
mobi |eng | 2005-10-05 | Author:Cicero
It is pointed out, in an effort to refute me, that Publius Septimius Scaevola, when his penalty was being assessed after conviction on another totally unrelated charge,1 received a severer ...
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Rome
April 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-29 | Author:Plotinus
18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the Soul uses deliberate reason29 before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-30 | Author:
FRAGMENTS AND REFERENCES TO KNOWN WORKS It is Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his essay On the Style of Demosthenes, who preserves for us the only substantial fragment that survives of ...
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Greek & Roman
April 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Komnene, Anna [Komnene, Anna]
BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
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Renaissance
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Fadlan, Ibn [Fadlan, Ibn]
4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category:
Anthologies
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Senge, Ra Yeshe [Senge, Ra Yeshe]
CHAPTER FOURTEEN TO INDIA AND BACK Council of translators—To Nepal and India—Return through southern Tibet—Translation activities—Liberation of Darma Dodé, son of Marpa—Farewells to the Master Around the same time Ralo ...
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Religious
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din [al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din]
ON VENOMOUS CREATURES THAT ARE NOT DEADLY These include the dung beetle, the gecko, the thorn-tail lizard, the weasel, the chameleon, the hedgehog, mice and rats, ticks, ants, grubs, lice, ...
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Art
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1973-05-30 | Author:
THE TALE OF KAFUR THE BLACK EUNUCH KNOW, my friends, that when no more than eight years of age I had already cultivated a remarkable habit of telling one big ...
( Category:
Multicultural
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Doniger, Wendy [Doniger, Wendy]
KŖṢŅA Like Rāma, Kṛṣņa is an ‘Epic’ figure in two senses of the word: he appears in one of the two great Sanskrit Epics (the Mahābhārata), and he is a ...
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Vedas
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1973-10-24 | Author:Penguin Classics
2 The Forest Journey Enlil of the mountain, the father of the gods, had decreed the destiny of Gilgamesh. So Gilgamesh dreamed and Enkidu said, ‘The meaning of the dream ...
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Epic
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]
Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Horace
4 Descende caelo Come down from heaven, Calliope, articulate on the flute a melody long drawn out, or with your incisive voice, if you prefer, or upon the strings of ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author:Plato
He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...
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Philosophers
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius
Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1996-09-25 | Author:Aristotle
14. Reference conventions Like many translators of the Poetics I have divided the text into sections and sub-sections to help the reader follow the structure of Aristotle’s exposition. These divisions, ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
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