Ancient & Medieval Literature
epub |eng | | Author:Richmond Lattimore [Lattimore, Richmond]
STESÍCHORUS OF HÍMERA The name Stesíchorus, “arranger of chorales,” suggests a family in which choral poetry was a traditional occupation. There were, apparently, several poets so named. An early but ...
( Category:
Poetry
November 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Tacitus & Kenneth Wellesley & Rhiannon Ash
The Flavian March on Rome 49. So in a convulsion felt around the world, imperial power changed hands. Meanwhile, the behaviour of Antonius Primus degenerated sharply after Cremona. He thought ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
November 17,2017 )
epub, pdf | | 2011-08-22 | Author:Homer [Homer]
The others applauded what Antinous had said, and each one sent his servant to bring his present. Antinous's man returned with a large and lovely dress most exquisitely embroidered. It ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1906-01-01 | Author:Aristophanes & Paul Roche [Aristophanes & Roche, Paul]
[PEISETAIRUS enters leading PRINCESS with one hand and clutching a batch of thunderbolts with the other.] But here he comes, the man himself, so may the divine Muse open her ...
( Category:
Dramas & Plays
November 13,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 1977-08-25 | Author:W. H. Auden [Auden, W. H.]
THE PHILOSOPHIC HERO PLATO A MAN of sense ought not to say, nor will I be very confident, that the description which I have given of the soul and her ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-27 | Author:Laurence Sterne [Sterne, Laurence]
CHAP. XXXII. TRIM can repeat every word of it by heart, quoth my uncle Toby.—Pugh! said my father, not caring to be interrupted with Trim’s saying his Catechism. He can ...
( Category:
Classics
November 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Caroline Alexander
“ ‘I wish that I could hide him away from death’ ”—Hephaistos knows as well as Thetis does that this cannot be done. The smith of the gods can make ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hesiod;
care, but nevertheless even these people will have some good mixed with bad. Zeus will destroy this Iron Race of mortal men too, when they turn out to be born ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-20 | Author:Lucian
LYCINUS: I’d no idea you were such an accomplished speaker, [15] Polystratus. Anyway, the prosecution speech you’ve made against my work was so long and thorough that I don’t even ...
( Category:
Ancient & Medieval Literature
October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Richmond Lattimore
BOOK FOURTEEN Now Nestor failed not to hear their outcry, though he was drinking his wine, but spoke in winged words to the son of Asklepios: “Take thought how these ...
( Category:
Poetry
October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:John Donne [Donne, John]
TO SIR H[ENRY]. G[OODYER]. Sir, [c. 1608] This letter hath no more merit, than one of more diligence, for I wrote it in my bed, and with much pain. I ...
( Category:
Poetry
October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:John Donne [Donne, John]
A FEVER 9–12 Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, go’st … Petrarch wrote that the death of his mistress had left the earth without a sun, and destroyed the ...
( Category:
Poetry
October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-06 | Author:John Donne [Donne, John]
1. PART First then, this first word, But, excludes a temporall Kingdome; the Apostles had filld themselves with an expectation, with an ambition of it; but that was not intended ...
( Category:
Poetry
October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-28 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer [Chaucer, Geoffrey]
Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus. The Prologue. "No more of this, for Godde's dignity!" Quoth oure Hoste; "for thou makest me So weary of thy very lewedness,* *stupidity, ignorance 1> That, ...
( Category:
Classics
October 13,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Marquis de Sade
Français, encore un effort si vous voulez être républicains La religion Je viens offrir de grande idées : on les écoutera, elles seront réfléchies ; si toutes ne plaisent pas, ...
( Category:
Graphic Novels
October 9,2017 )
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