Ancient & Medieval Literature
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-04-06 | Author:Various
They said this was unnecessary, as the man was dead before. "I will do more," he said, and struck two or three blows at Grettir's neck before he took off ...
( Category:
Anthologies
June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zhenjun Zhang
140. GHOST HERB MORTAR Liu Song was at home when suddenly he saw a ghost. He drew his sword to cut it and the ghost ran away. Song stood up ...
( Category:
Occult
May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:McGing, Brian C.;
Further Reading There is a very good account of the workings of Hellenistic courts in Herman (1997) and also Mooren (1998). For a political assessment of Apelles’ “conspiracy,” see Errington ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-27 | Author:Thucydides
1. As to the temple and oracle of the Pythian Apollo, we are agreed that whosoever will shall have access to it, without fraud or fear, according to the usages ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 28,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Arrian
BOOK FIVE In the country on Alexander’s route between the river Cophen and the Indus lay the city of Nysa, supposed to have been founded by Dionysus, at the time ...
( Category:
Anthologies
May 27,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | 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:
Greek
May 27,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Tacitus
BOOK XV A.D. 62 — 65 Meanwhile, the Parthian king, Vologeses, when he heard of Corbulo’s achievements and of a foreign prince, Tigranes, having been set over Armenia, though he ...
( Category:
History & Theory
May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-04-28 | Author:Ovid
What he describes here–camouflaging his personal feelings, as so often, behind a smokescreen of mythic witticisms–is the psychological impact of falling in love with an actual person. The symptoms are ...
( Category:
Love Poems
May 27,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-07-25 | Author:Aeschylus
Here is the story plain. There was dispute between Atreus, Agamemnon’s father, who ruled Argos then, And my father Thyestes, his own brother; whom Atreus drove out from home and ...
( Category:
Greek
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-02 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]
CHAPTER XIV SIR TRISTRAM'S BATTLE WITH SIR LAUNCELOT Sir Tristram rode through a forest and saw ten men fighting, and one man did battle against nine. So he rode to ...
( Category:
Gothic & Romantic
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:
8. The Elasticity of the Greek Novel After this brief survey we are in a better position to ask whether the love novel as represented by the “big five” should ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Herodotus
BOOK SEVEN [1] When news of the battle fought at Marathon reached King Darius, the son of Hystaspes, his exasperation with the Athenians – already considerable because of their attack ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop
It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Plutarch
Old age the Cyprian queen must ever shun, And Venus from old men in scorn doth run. Therefore they marry not in May, but tarry till June, which is presently ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 1961-08-14 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]
XVIII ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON AT CAPUA I WAS SITTING ON a stone bench behind the stables of my villa, thinking out some problem of Etruscan history and idly shooting dice, ...
( Category:
Historical
March 16,2019 )
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