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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Euripides

epub |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Plato

1. See Apology 33e1 note. 2. Legend had it that Athens was once obliged to send King Minos of Crete an annual tribute of seven young men and seven maidens ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Aeschylus & Alan H. Sommerstein

[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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Euripides & Aeschylus & Sophocles

azw3 |eng | 1996-09-25 | Author:Aristotle

14. Reference conventions Like many translators of the Poetics I have divided the text into sections and sub-sections to help the reader follow the structure of Aristotle’s exposition. These divisions, ...

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 ...

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 ...