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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 ...
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Medieval
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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: ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 1953-04-18 | Author:Sophocles
WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
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Medieval
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epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Marie France & Glyn S. Burgess & Keith Busby [S. Burgess, Glyn]
VI Les Deus Amanz There once took place in Normandy a now celebrated adventure of two young people who loved each other and who both met their end because of ...
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European
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azw3, epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Homer
V Hymn to Aphrodite Muse, speak to me of the works of Aphrodite, the golden one, the Cyprian, she who awakens sweet longing in the gods and subdues the race ...
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Medieval
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azw3 |eng | 2003-08-27 | Author:Polybius
BOOK V Affairs in Egypt THE DEATH OF CLEOMENES The young Ptolemy Philopator took possession of the throne of Egypt early in 221 B.C. Seleucus, King of Syria, had died ...
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Greek
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azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author: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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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Aeschylus
[By now the CHORUS are all seated close to the altar, on which they have laid some of their suppliant-branches. PELASGUS enters from the direction of the city, in a ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Grant, Michael [Grant, Michael]
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 ...
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Anthologies
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Aeschylus
CASSANDRA: Look out! look out!— Ai, drag the great bull from the mate! - a thrash of robes, she traps him - writhing- black horn glints, twists - she gores ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Menander
ACT ONE SCENE: a street in Corinth. There are two houses, one belonging to Myrrhine, the other to Polemon. Pataikos’s house may have been shown, but it is nowhere necessary ...
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Playwriting
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Sophocles
WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-04-25 | 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 ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-09-24 | 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 ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-01-25 | Author:Euripides
Her entreaties and appeals to her father, and her maiden’s years – in their love for battle the officers set this at naught; her father after praying gave an order ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
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