Ancient & Medieval Literature
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 )
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 | 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 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-04-25 | Author:Plautus
A Three-Dollar Day (TRINUMMUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO A THREE-DOLLAR DAY THE Prologue informs us that this play is derived from the Greek of Philemon, and there are reasons for believing ...
( Category:
Medieval
April 19,2020 )
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 )
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 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Seneca
On the Shortness of Life [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] [1] Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:Lucian & Diogenes Of Sinope & Julian
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:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
April 19,2020 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles
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 )
azw3 |eng | 1987-04-29 | Author:Maxwell Staniforth and 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
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-04 | Author:Bede
CHAPTER 35 Wilfrid encourages his brethren WILFRID, God’s beloved, addressed his comrades thus: ‘Keep in mind and recall to the brethren those days of old, how we read in the ...
( Category:
Saints
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1979-09-26 | Author:Psellus, Michael [Psellus, Michael]
THE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE It was a marvel of beauty that Nature brought into being in the person of this man, so justly proportioned, so harmoniously fashioned, that there was ...
( Category:
Presidents & Heads of State
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Unknown
King Midas had learned a harsh lesson. He now hated the sight of gold, and he no longer had any wish to be wealthy. Instead, he developed the ambition to ...
( Category:
Education & Reference
April 15,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-06 | Author:Justinian
CONCERNING THEFT BOOK 47, TITLE 2 1. (PAUL) Labeo says that the very word for theft (furtum) is itself derived from a Latin word meaning ‘black’, because it is committed ...
( Category:
Real Estate
April 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Chariton [Chariton]
Book 7 [1] When everyone was leaving with the king to fight against the Egyptians, no one told Chaireas what he was supposed to do. He was not the king’s ...
( Category:
Greek
April 15,2020 )
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