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Shahnameh (Penguin Classics) by Ferdowsi Abolqasem
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Complete Odes and Epodes (Classics) by Horace
azw3 |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Horace

4 Descende caelo Come down from heaven, Calliope, articulate on the flute a melody long drawn out, or with your incisive voice, if you prefer, or upon the strings of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) by Lucretius
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius

Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
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, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Homeric Hymns (Penguin Classics) by Homer
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 ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Annals (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
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 ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Persians and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus
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 ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Theaetetus (Classics) by Plato
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-10-27 | Author:Plato

Is There a Platonic Theory of Perception in Theaetetus? An affirmative answer is often given to this question: see especially Cornford [2], Modrak [109], Nakhnikian [111] and Reed [114]. Despite ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-06-30 | Author:Homer

But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together, shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt that cinched his body-shield around his chest— but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
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 ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Plays and Fragments (Classics) by Menander
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 ...
( Category: Playwriting April 19,2020 )
Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
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 ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Civil War (Penguin Classics) by Lucan
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
The Rope and Other Plays (Classics) by Plautus
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 ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes
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 ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )

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