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The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox & Bernard Knox
epub |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox & Bernard Knox

OEDIPUS: . But why? If I’m their son—Merope, Polybus? MESSENGER: Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood. OEDIPUS: What are you saying—Po!ybus was not my father? MESSENGER: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Cynic Philosophers by Diogenes Of Sinope
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Diogenes Of Sinope [Dobbin, Robert]

126 On Self-Sufficiency [5] Just as a good actor should perform well any role the playwright assigns him, so a good man should play well whatever role fortune assigns him. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 19,2020 )
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 Elder Edda by Unknown
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Unknown

2. ‘Why should you visit from Valland, scatter-brain, my dwelling? You have, gold-goddess, if you want to know, gentle lady, washed a man’s blood from your hands.’ Then Brynhild said: ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature April 19,2020 )
Medieval Writings on Secular Women by Medieval Writings on Secular Women (Penguin Classics)
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Medieval Writings on Secular Women (Penguin Classics) [Retail]

62. A Wife Defends the Property Rights of herself and her Husband, Barcelona, 17 October 987 This document is written against the background of the aftermath of Al-Mansur’s sacking of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Bede

Chapter 30: During a plague the East Saxons lapse into idolatry, but are quickly recalled from their errors by Bishop Jaruman [a.d. 665] At the same time, the kings Sighere ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Lais of Marie De France by Marie France & Glyn S. Burgess & Keith Busby
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Marie France & Glyn S. Burgess & Keith Busby [S. Burgess, Glyn]

VI Les Deus Amanz There once took place in Normandy a now celebrated adventure of two young people who loved each other and who both met their end because of ...
( Category: European April 19,2020 )
Red Lilies and Frightened Birds by Red Lilies & Frightened Birds (Penguin Classics)
epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Red Lilies & Frightened Birds (Penguin Classics) [Retail]

21 First, the cattle would be taken, then womenfolk captured, and lastly, all the men routed. The whole country would be devastated to become the haunt of spirits. This is ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature April 19,2020 )
Subhashitavali by A.N.D. Haksar
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:A.N.D. Haksar

322 The horses wake and, softly neighing, search for grass on every side, the cock too waves its copper plume and sounds a note, both high and sweet, which lovers ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature April 19,2020 )
The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden (Penguin Classics) by Granoff Phyllis
azw3 |eng | 2006-10-25 | Author:Granoff, Phyllis [Granoff, Phyllis]

21 SIṂHIKĀ Now when her time came the Queen Vicitramālā, wife of Sukośala, gave birth to a son. The delivery was smooth and the baby bore all of the auspicious ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature April 19,2020 )
The Homeric Hymns (Penguin Classics) by Homer
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 )
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Classics) by Polybius
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 )
Annals (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
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 )
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 )
Latin Literature (Penguin Classics) by Grant Michael
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 )

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