Ancient & Medieval Literature
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Church, Alfred J. [Church, Alfred J.]

THE REPENTANCE OF NEOPTOLEMUS. "To undo what I did amiss." "How sayest thou? When didst thou thus?" "When I listened to thee, and used deceit to a brave man." "What ...
( Category: Short Stories June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Church, Alfred J. [Church, Alfred J.]

CHAPTER XII The Plots of Juno WHEN Juno saw that the Trojans were come to the land of Italy, and that they were building houses in which to dwell, and ...
( Category: Greece June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Leonardo da Vinci [Leonardo da Vinci]

( Category: History June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CHAPTER VIII The Twins ALTHOUGH the temple of Vesta itself, at Alba Longa, was the principal scene of the duties which devolved upon the vestal virgins, still they were not ...
( Category: Europe June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:A N D Haskar

13. The Gift of Merit On another occasion, when King Bhoja was again about to ascend the throne after making all the arrangements for his coronation, the thirteenth statuette said: ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Carruthers

1. I have added the phrase here and once elsewhere “and of their Arab interpreters,” since Albertus seems be speaking not strictly of the ancient Peripatetics but rather of a ...
( Category: Mid-Life April 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-25 | Author:Carnes Lord [Lord, Carnes]

( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Yuval Noah Harari

Dedication To my teacher, S. N. Goenka (1924–2013), who lovingly taught me important things. Contents Cover Title Page Dedication 1 The New Human Agenda PART I Homo Sapiens Conquers the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Michael K. Kellogg

THE EARLY ROMANCES The opening of the first Arthurian romance, Erec and Enide, already strikes a note of decline and discord. Arthur wishes to hunt the white stag in order ...
( Category: Medieval March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Cicero [Tullius Cicero, Marcus]

53. Let us now look at the main point: for which one of them was the actual spot where they came to blows more convenient? Jurors, is that something that ...
( Category: History & Theory March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

Surely that is all you can have been waiting for – short of expecting that the case and Truth themselves will somehow take shape and speak and plead in their ...
( Category: Roman March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Theodor Mommsen [Mommsen, Theodor]

CHAPTER II The Reform Movement and Tiberius Gracchus The Roman Government before the Period of the Gracchi For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna the Roman state enjoyed ...
( Category: Rome February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Allan Bloom

BOOK IX “Well,” I said, “the tyrannic man himself remains to be considered—how he is transformed out of the democratic man, and, once come into being, what sort of man ...
( Category: Democracy December 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Eric H. Cline [Cline, Eric H.]

Other Science Dating Claims? In the AD 1980s, analysis of ice cores from Greenland identified acidity peaks that correspond to major volcanism (Hammer, Clausen, and Dansgaard 1980), and it was ...
( Category: Greek August 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Rhodes, P. J.

The Origins of the Common Peace When the Peloponnesian War ended, Sparta was committed to the unqualified return of the Asiatic Greeks to Persia if the treaty of 411 was ...
( Category: Historical June 16,2016 )