epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop [Aesop]

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Aeschylus

Odysseus [returning with the wine-skin. He is followed by Silenus, who is also drunk.] Hearken, Cyclops; for I am well versed in the ways of Bacchus, whom I have given ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-04 | Author:Peter Wortsman [Wortsman, Peter]

The man suddenly interrupted his singing upon spotting the stranger rushing towards him, pale-faced and with dishevelled hair. Bewildered, Florio asked after Donati. But the gardener had never heard the ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Plutarch

26. So for the time being the assembly was adjourned. When the day came for voting on the law, Pompey went quietly out of the city into the country. There ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Ovid

433–6 Again, the request for a loan without intention of repayment recalls the advice given by Dipsas at Am 1.8.101–2. The word used here (435) to describe these gold-diggers is ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:McGing, Brian C.;

Further Reading There is a very good account of the workings of Hellenistic courts in Herman (1997) and also Mooren (1998). For a political assessment of Apelles’ “conspiracy,” see Errington ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Arrian

BOOK FIVE In the country on Alexander’s route between the river Cophen and the Indus lay the city of Nysa, supposed to have been founded by Dionysus, at the time ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | 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 ...

mobi |eng | 2004-04-28 | Author:Ovid

What he describes here–camouflaging his personal feelings, as so often, behind a smokescreen of mythic witticisms–is the psychological impact of falling in love with an actual person. The symptoms are ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1973-07-25 | Author:Aeschylus

Here is the story plain. There was dispute between Atreus, Agamemnon’s father, who ruled Argos then, And my father Thyestes, his own brother; whom Atreus drove out from home and ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:

8. The Elasticity of the Greek Novel After this brief survey we are in a better position to ask whether the love novel as represented by the “big five” should ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Herodotus

BOOK SEVEN [1] When news of the battle fought at Marathon reached King Darius, the son of Hystaspes, his exasperation with the Athenians – already considerable because of their attack ...

epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Plutarch

Old age the Cyprian queen must ever shun, And Venus from old men in scorn doth run. Therefore they marry not in May, but tarry till June, which is presently ...

epub |eng | 1961-08-14 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON AT CAPUA I WAS SITTING ON a stone bench behind the stables of my villa, thinking out some problem of Etruscan history and idly shooting dice, ...