Ancient & Classical
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Homer & Fagles

BOOK THIRTEEN: Battling for the Ships But once Zeus had driven Hector and Hector's Trojans hard against the ships, he left both armies there, milling among the hulls to bear ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 1965-07-14 | Author:Plautus [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 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Rehm, Rush.

I call on my husband— sheepdog of the flock mainstay and mast of a warship central pillar of a great hall a father’s only son land to the sailor lost ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 1964-05-27 | Author:Plautus [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 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-03 | Author:Seneca

2. That is, philosophers from the past, whom we can know through their writings. 3. Seneca is referring to the famous fable in which an animal refused to enter a ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Sophocles & F. Sophocles. Storr

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 July 17,2020 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Menander

The Rape of the Locks1 [Perikeiromene] Introductory Note to The Rape of the Locks The date of the play is quite uncertain, and a good deal of it is lost. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | 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 ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-15 | 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 July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Euripides

( Category: Medieval June 28,2020 )