Ancient & Medieval Literature
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Watson, Burton [Watson, Burton]
1. Following the emendation suggested by Yu Yue. The word “things” in this passage includes mankind. 2. Xiong Yiliao, a man of Chu, is mentioned in Zuozhuan, Duke Ai, sixteenth ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
July 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Hesiod
He spoke, and all the gods obeyed their chief. 70 To Zeus’s plan, the Cripple7 right away Modelled a modest maiden out of clay; Clear-eyed Athena dressed her, cinched her ...
( Category:
Poetry
July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:H. D. F. Kitto
VIII The Greeks at War The Greek world was now divided. On the one side was the Athenian Empire, which men openly called a ‘tyranny’; on the other, Sparta, the ...
( Category:
Dramas & Plays
July 2,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Aristotle [Aristotle]
13. Further reading This introduction began by mentioning some of the problems which the Poetics poses to its interpreters; it scarcely needs to be said, therefore, that there are many ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
June 30,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Plutarch
19. As for Phocion’s wives we have no record of the first, except for the fact that she was a sister of Cephisodotus the sculptor. But his second wife was ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
June 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:John Marincola
Historians and their Sources (Natural Questions 4b.3.1) … if I assure you that hail is formed in the same way that ice is here on earth,6 when an entire cloud ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Sheehan, Sean
Athenian history (5.55–96) Aristagoras’ visit to Sparta afforded the occasion for a digression concerning that city’s political history and his trip afterwards to Athens also affords an excursus, though a ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
May 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 1973-07-26 | Author:Tacitus
PART TWO CLAUDIUS AND NERO CHAPTER 9 The Fall of Messalina * [The manuscript breaks off at the death of Tiberius, and Tacitus’ description of the four years’ reign of ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
May 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1976-05-08 | Author:Highet, Gilbert;
The heir of the Revolution Although he belonged to a later generation, although he lived until nearly the end of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo (1802-85) was the heir of ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Muddupalani [Muddupalani]
Chapter Three Ila pleads with Madhava to give up Radhika Radha’s growing jealousy of Ila Parrot says Krishna is obsessed with Ila Radha curses her fate Parrot narrates how Ila’s ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]
FRUIT JUICE LETTUCE-TOMATO SALAD (one) HARD-BOILED EGG BLACK COFFEE “What’s this thing?” “You are the only member of this family group who will not be eating three meals a day ...
( Category:
Photography & Video
May 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Tacitus [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 ...
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Ancient & Medieval Literature
May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Cicero, Marcus Tullius [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]
BOOK III. I. AFTER these words from Balbus, Cotta said, looking at him with a smile, You tell me too late, Balbus, what cause I am to defend, for during ...
( Category:
Philosophy
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Machiavelli, Niccolo [Machiavelli, Niccolo]
CHAPTER IV. THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS EMPLOYED THREE DIFFERENT METHODS FOR AGGRANDIZING THEMSELVES. WHOEVER has studied ancient history will have found that the republics had three methods of aggrandizement. One of ...
( Category:
Philosophy
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Cicero, Marcus Tullius [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]
BOOK III. 1. MY son Marcus, Cato, who was nearly of the same age with Publius Scipio, the first of the family that bore the name of Africanus, represents him ...
( Category:
Philosophy
April 26,2018 )
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