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Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Maxwell Staniforth & Andrew Louth
epub |eng | 1987-04-30 | Author:Maxwell Staniforth & Andrew Louth

The Martyrdom of Polycarp From the colony of God’s Church1 at SMYRNA, To the colony of God’s Church at PHILOMELIUM,2 and to all colonies of the Holy Catholic Church everywhere. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
The Early History of Rome by Livy
epub |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Livy

BOOK FOUR War and Politics The next consuls were Marcus Genucius and Gaius Curtius. War and political dissension made the year a difficult one. Hardly had it begun, when the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
Eyrbyggja Saga by Hermann Palsson
epub |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Hermann Palsson

35. NEW TROUBLES Snorri the Priest had ignored Thorolf’s protests and continued to use Krakaness Wood, but Arnkel soon made it clear that in his opinion Snorri had no legal ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature July 16,2020 )
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
epub |eng | 2006-02-23 | Author:Euripides

[322–380] Your country, greatest when in greatest danger, turns Upon the sneerers her grim glare of hardihood; While laggard states pursue their dark manoeuvres, cold With caution, and blink weakly ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Classical Literary Criticism by Various & none & Aristotle
epub |eng | 2000-07-15 | Author:Various & none & Aristotle

CHAPTER 10 Simple and Complex Plots Some plots are simple, and some complex, for the obvious reason that the actions of which they are representations are of one or other ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature July 16,2020 )
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Cicero

Surely that is all you can have been waiting for – short of expecting that the case and Truth themselves will somehow take shape and speak and plead in their ...
( Category: History & Theory July 16,2020 )
Selected Letters by Cicero
epub |eng | 2005-09-29 | Author:Cicero

67 CICERO TO ATTICUS Formiae, 1 March 49 My clerk’s hand will serve as an indication of my ophthalmia and likewise as an excuse for brevity, not that there is ...
( Category: Rome July 16,2020 )
The Homeric Hymns by Homer
epub |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Homer

Just as when a quick thought darts through the heart of a man when cares crowd in on him 45 and toss him about or when bright glances spin off ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Michael Grant

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 July 16,2020 )
The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century by Various
epub |eng | 2006-04-27 | Author:Various

5 While Aelred was in the neighbourhood of the city of York, where business to the archbishop of that diocese2 had brought him, he learned, by a happily timed report ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The Fasti (Verse) by Ovid
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Ovid

Fasti 3: MARCH 3.1–10. The poet invokes Mars, father of Romulus and patron-god of Rome, whose name gave rise to March and whose temple dominated the newly built Forum of ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Heroides by Ovid
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Ovid

NOTES 1. Haemonia (the land of Haemon) was another name for Thessaly. Haemon, the lover of Antigone, was the son of Creon, King of Thebes. 2. Boreas was the god ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Eyrbyggja Saga by Hermann Palsson & Paul Edwards
epub |eng | 1989-07-15 | Author:Hermann Palsson & Paul Edwards

35. NEW TROUBLES Snorri the Priest had ignored Thorolf’s protests and continued to use Krakaness Wood, but Arnkel soon made it clear that in his opinion Snorri had no legal ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature July 16,2020 )
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald Of Wales
epub |eng | 2004-05-27 | Author:Gerald Of Wales

THE DESCRIPTION OF WALES FOR STEPHEN, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,447 THE FIRST PREFACE TO THE DESCRIPTION OF WALES. Some time ago I set out in three books The Topography of Ireland, ...
( Category: Great Britain July 16,2020 )
Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

The old mansion had a still more venerable look in the yellow sunshine than by pale moonlight; and I could not but feel the force of the Squire's idea, that ...
( Category: Comics & Graphic Novels July 10,2020 )

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