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azw3, epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Homer
V Hymn to Aphrodite Muse, speak to me of the works of Aphrodite, the golden one, the Cyprian, she who awakens sweet longing in the gods and subdues the race ...
( Category:
Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-08-27 | Author:Polybius
BOOK V Affairs in Egypt THE DEATH OF CLEOMENES The young Ptolemy Philopator took possession of the throne of Egypt early in 221 B.C. Seleucus, King of Syria, had died ...
( Category:
Greek
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Tacitus
Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category:
Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-06-18 | Author:Gibbon, Edward [Gibbon, Edward]
[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category:
Rome
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-28 | Author:Plato
C[3] 488b2–491d3 Socrates does not immediately defend himself from Callicles’ attack, but goes to work on his claim by attempting to get him to clarify what he meant by ‘stronger’ ...
( Category:
Greek & Roman
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Aeschylus
[By now the CHORUS are all seated close to the altar, on which they have laid some of their suppliant-branches. PELASGUS enters from the direction of the city, in a ...
( Category:
Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Grant, Michael [Grant, Michael]
THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category:
Anthologies
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-10-27 | Author:Plato
Is There a Platonic Theory of Perception in Theaetetus? An affirmative answer is often given to this question: see especially Cornford [2], Modrak [109], Nakhnikian [111] and Reed [114]. Despite ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-06-30 | Author:Homer
But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together, shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt that cinched his body-shield around his chest— but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits: ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-03-26 | Author:Virgil
BOOK 7 War in Latium You too, Caieta, nurse of Aeneas, have given by your death eternal fame to our shores; the honour paid you there even now protects your ...
( Category:
Epic
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-06-24 | Author:Tacitus
The Flavian March on Rome 49. So in a convulsion felt around the world, imperial power changed hands. Meanwhile, the behaviour of Antonius Primus degenerated sharply after Cremona. He thought ...
( Category:
Rome
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Menander
ACT ONE SCENE: a street in Corinth. There are two houses, one belonging to Myrrhine, the other to Polemon. Pataikos’s house may have been shown, but it is nowhere necessary ...
( Category:
Playwriting
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan
CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category:
Epic
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Seneca
There may be pleasure in the memory Of even these events one day.* He should put his whole heart into the fight against them. If he gives way before them ...
( Category:
Letters
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-01-29 | Author:Herodotus
At dawn next morning he was seen communicating his dream to the interpreters; but later he put it out of his mind and took part in the procession, during which ...
( Category:
Greece
April 19,2020 )
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