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The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
epub |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:John Dillon

FRAGMENTS AND REFERENCES TO KNOWN WORKS It is Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his essay On the Style of Demosthenes, who preserves for us the only substantial fragment that survives of ...
( Category: Anthologies July 17,2020 )
Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus by Thomas Habinek
epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Thomas Habinek

Quintilian Oratorical Instruction 11.3.51–60 Voice and Breath The voice must not be strained beyond its natural capacity. Strain can make it choke up or become less clear or even make ...
( Category: Greek July 17,2020 )
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
epub |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:Plautus

A Three-Dollar Day (TRINUMMUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO A THREE-DOLLAR DAY THE Prologue informs us that this play is derived from the Greek of Philemon, and there are reasons for believing ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Plautus

EXEUNT THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER (MILES GLORIOSUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER AN incidental allusion in this play (at line 211) to the imprisonment of a ‘foreign’, i. e. Roman, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 17,2020 )
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles
epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles

Another is now mistress of your husband’s bed; A new queen rules in your house. [Enter JASON.] JASON I’ve often noticed – this is not the first time – What ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The Early History of Rome by Livy
epub |eng | 2005-05-26 | 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: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
epub |eng | 2006-02-23 | Author:Euripides

[322–380] Your country, greatest when in greatest danger, turns Upon the sneerers her grim glare of hardihood; While laggard states pursue their dark manoeuvres, cold With caution, and blink weakly ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The Homeric Hymns by Homer
epub |eng | 2003-04-24 | 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: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
epub |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: Anthologies July 16,2020 )
The Fasti (Verse) by Ovid
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Ovid

Fasti 3: MARCH 3.1–10. The poet invokes Mars, father of Romulus and patron-god of Rome, whose name gave rise to March and whose temple dominated the newly built Forum of ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Heroides by Ovid
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Ovid

NOTES 1. Haemonia (the land of Haemon) was another name for Thessaly. Haemon, the lover of Antigone, was the son of Creon, King of Thebes. 2. Boreas was the god ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Hippolytus by Euripides
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Euripides

( Category: Medieval June 28,2020 )
Latin Literature by Michael Grant
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | 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: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox & Bernard Knox
epub |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox & Bernard Knox

OEDIPUS: . But why? If I’m their son—Merope, Polybus? MESSENGER: Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood. OEDIPUS: What are you saying—Po!ybus was not my father? MESSENGER: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )

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