epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Chariton [Chariton]

Book 7 [1] When everyone was leaving with the king to fight against the Egyptians, no one told Chaireas what he was supposed to do. He was not the king’s ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Plato [Plato]

‘You really mustn't think,’ I said, ‘that I have any aim in asking you all these questions beyond a simple desire to investigate; to investigate all aspects of being good, ...

epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Ovid [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 ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-22 | Author:Aeschylus

THE KING OF ARGOS We spake thee fair-speak thou them fair in turn. LEADER What marvel that we loathe them, scared in soul? THE KING OF ARGOS Awe towards a ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Harrison, Thomas; Irwin, Elizabeth; & Elizabeth Irwin [Harrison, Thomas & Irwin, Elizabeth]

10 The Dynamics of Time Herodotus’ Histories and Contemporary Athens Before and After Fornara Jonas Grethlein Fornara’s arguably most important contribution to Herodotean scholarship is the thesis that the account ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Sappho [Sappho]

LXIX Like a tall forest were their spears, Their banners like a silken sea, When the great host in splendour passed Across the crimson sinking sun. And then the bray ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Josephine Peabody

CUPID AND PSYCHE. Once upon a time, through that Destiny that overrules the gods, Love himself gave up his immortal heart to a mortal maiden. And thus it came to ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-25 | Author:Euripides

epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Euripides [Euripides]

* * * NOTES ON HIPPOLYTUS * * * [1] The construction in the original furnishes a remarkable example of the "nominativus pendens." [2] Or, that posterity might know it. ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Daniel Mendelsohn

This is the conclusion to which many good biographies, to say nothing of some very good novels, also lead. “The poor thing that is himself ” is hardly the way ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-04 | Author:Pliny, Gaius [Pliny, Gaius]

The effects of over-indulgence 137. Careful investigation reveals that no activity takes up more of a man’s life than wine-making, as if Nature had not given us a perfectly healthy ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-31 | Author:Charles W Eliot (ed) [Eliot, Charles W]

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Robert Chandler

The Stone Flower Mramorskoye was not the only place renowned for its stoneworkers. They say that our towns too had their share of craftsmen. The only difference being that our ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ambrose Bierce

* * * THE MOCKING-BIRD The time, a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the early autumn of 1861. The place, a forest's heart in the mountain region of southwestern Virginia. Private ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-21 | Author:Henrik Ibsen

SCENE 3 Low, treeless hills near the mountain plateau; peaks in the distance. There are long shadows; it is late in the day. PEER [enters, running, and halts on the ...