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Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
epub |eng | 1953-04-18 | Author:Sophocles

WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Tain by Ciaran Carson
epub |eng | 2007-04-18 | Author:Ciaran Carson

headstones erected on graves, increased by the royal dead; not well do you bring the fight to this solitary blade. I see his malignant shape, the nine heads under his ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 19,2020 )
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Thomas Malory
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Thomas Malory

Chapter 2 How Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawain were wroth because Sir Kay mocked Beaumains, and of a damosel which desired a knight to fight for a lady Thereat was ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Gig Posters Volume 2 by Clay Hayes
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Clay Hayes [Hayes, Clay]

Justin Santora Website: www.​justinsantora.​com Location: Joliet, Illinois Education: Northeastern Illinois University When did you start making gig posters? Like many poster artists, I used to make cheap photocopier flyers for ...
( Category: Posters April 19,2020 )
The Complete Odes and Epodes (Classics) by Horace
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 ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
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, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Gibbon Edward
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 )
The Persians and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus
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 )
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
azw3 |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Aeschylus

CASSANDRA: Look out! look out!— Ai, drag the great bull from the mate! - a thrash of robes, she traps him - writhing- black horn glints, twists - she gores ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Plays and Fragments (Classics) by Menander
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 )
Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Sophocles

WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Civil War (Penguin Classics) by Lucan
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 )
The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes
azw3 |eng | 2003-09-24 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
azw3 |eng | 2006-01-25 | Author:Euripides

Her entreaties and appeals to her father, and her maiden’s years – in their love for battle the officers set this at naught; her father after praying gave an order ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Fragments (Penguin Classics) by Heraclitus
azw3 |eng | 2003-10-27 | Author:Heraclitus

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )

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