Ancient & Medieval Literature
epub |eng | 2010-10-22 | 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: Poetry March 3,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1912-03-03 | Author:Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 [Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929]

consumption as one of the main elements in the standard of decency among all classes is of course not traceable wholly to the example of the wealthy leisure class, but ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-30 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

LV. THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY. 1. My mouthpiece—is of the people: too coarsely and cordially do I talk for Angora rabbits. And still stranger soundeth my word unto all ink-fish ...
( Category: Philosophy March 3,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Demosthenes

1 It is unclear whether the term probolē refers to the whole process, including the trial, or merely the preliminary hearing before the Assembly. In the latter case the plaintiff ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 1,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:Eratosthenes & Hyginus & Aratus

The Hyades (i) A connection with Dionysos was suggested by the god’s cultic title of Hues. He was a son of Zeus by the Theban princess Semele, daughter of Cadmos, ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-29 | Author:Catullus [Catullus]

56 A matter for mirth, Cato, & a smile worth your attention, you’ll laugh you’ll laugh as you love your Catullus, Cato listen – a matter for more than a ...
( Category: Poetry March 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Sappho

Fragment 20 This fragment describes a great storm. Perhaps the song contained a prayer for a safe sea voyage (cf. frs. 5 and 17). Fragment 21 This song, together with ...
( Category: Poetry March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-27 | Author:Petronius, & Seneca,

Won’t you come back to life? Won’t you give up your womanly error and enjoy the comforts of life as long as you can? That very corpse lying there should ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-28 | Author:Aristophanes & Menander & Plautus & Terence

NIKERATOS: You think so? Then… [They go on speaking quietly together] [Enter DEMEAS from his house, speaking back over his shoulder] DEMEAS: If I get my hands on a stick, ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays March 1,2018 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |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: Short Stories & Anthologies March 1,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Aeschylus

HEPHAISTOS I have the harness ready, as you see. KRATOS Encase his arms in it, then pound your hammer against those nails and pin him to the rock. HEPHAISTOS The ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays March 1,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-22 | Author:Emanuel, Jeffrey P. [Emanuel, Jeffrey P.]

Chapter Eight Mariners and Their Ships: Vessel Types, Capacity, and Rigging ἐννέα νῆας στεῖλα, θοῶς δ᾽ ἐσαγείρατο λαός. Nine ships I fitted out, and the host gathered speedily. Odyssey xiv, ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature February 13,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:plato

BOOK VI SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in view. I do ...
( Category: Philosophy February 7,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-07-10 | Author:Ahl, Frederick & Elaine Fantham [Ahl, Frederick]

BOOK TEN MEANWHILE Olympus, seat of all power in the universe, opens Wide for a meeting* the Father of Gods and Ruler of Mortals Calls to his residence high in ...
( Category: Poetry February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-06 | Author:Pliny the Younger

20 To his friend Tacitus ?106–7 I have read your book,* and, as carefully as I could, I have marked the 1 passages which I thought should be changed and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence February 6,2018 )