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Ancient Egyptian Literature by Lichtheim Miriam; Manning Joseph G.;
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Lichtheim, Miriam; Manning, Joseph G.;

IV. Hymns and Lamentations The hymns translated in Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vols. I and II, came from private funerary monuments—tombs, stelae, and statues—or were preserved on papyrus. By contrast, the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources by Ancient Israel's History An Introduction to Issues & Sources
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Ancient Israel's History An Introduction to Issues & Sources

Other sources for assessing possible Judean expansion include Hebrew inscriptions found at Meṣad Hashavyahu, a small fortress on the southern Mediterranean coast.84 Some scholars take these inscriptions as indicating a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 27,2019 )
The Early History of Rome: Bks. 1-5 (Penguin Classics) by Livy
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 ...
( Category: Greek May 27,2019 )
The Erotic Poems (Classics) by Ovid
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 ...
( Category: Love Poems May 27,2019 )
The Mind of Thucydides (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology) by Jacqueline de Romilly
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-12-15 | Author:Jacqueline de Romilly

Chance and Intelligence As narrated by Thucydides, the battle, though neither dry nor disembodied, may be offered chiefly as a lesson. It is first of all a lesson to the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Iliad (Translated & Annotated) by Homer & Lombardo Stanley
mobi |eng | 1997-05-31 | Author:Homer & Lombardo, Stanley [Lombardo, Stanley]

He washed the wound off with warm water And patted into it a bitter root That he had rubbed between his hands, [890] An anodyne that took away the pain. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices by Lecouteux Claude
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Lecouteux, Claude [Lecouteux, Claude]

because that’s the boundary of Galvoie That knights cannot pass And ever return again. (6602–4) The boundary marker therefore signifies, to some extent, the beginning of a journey of no ...
( Category: Arthurian Romance May 27,2019 )
Tales of the Narts by John Colarusso & Tamirlan Salbiev
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-27 | Author:John Colarusso & Tamirlan Salbiev

38 ♦ AISHANA A son was born to Urizhmag, and like the rumble of thunder the news echoed around and reached the ears of the heavenly Shafa, the god of ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology May 27,2019 )
Nart Sagas by John Colarusso
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:John Colarusso

SAGA 54 l Shardan In the time of the Narts, there was a man of short stature named Shardan. The millet was ripe, but the Narts did not know how ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology May 27,2019 )
The History of the Kings of Britain (Classics) by Geoffrey of Monmouth
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Geoffrey of Monmouth

Part Five * * * THE PROPHECIES OF MERLIN [vii.1] I had not yet reached this point in my story when Merlin began to be talked about very much, and ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society by Andrews Walter G. & Kalpakli Mehmet
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-12-22 | Author:Andrews, Walter G. & Kalpakli, Mehmet [Andrews, Walter G.]

She [‘Ayişe] worked at every genre of poetry and tested her talent on each of them. She has gazels and mu‘amma [enigmas], kasides [panegyrics] and mesnevis [rhyming couplets]. She has ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 27,2019 )
The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature: The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages) by Siân Echard
azw3 |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Siân Echard

In other words, the reason why no historian reports Arthur’s death is that no one was present to witness it when it happened. The ambiguity surrounding his death is thus ...
( Category: Arthurian Romance May 27,2019 )
The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages) by
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:

VII THE POST-VULGATE CYCLE IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA Paloma Gracia Between 1235 and 1240 the cycle known as the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, or simply as the Post-Vulgate (P-V), was ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 27,2019 )
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Thornbury Emily V
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Thornbury, Emily V. [Thornbury, Emily V.]

Home renovations: Christ and Satan ‘Liber II’ in Junius XI seems something of an afterthought. The first 212 pages, containing Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, were written by one scribe in ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer: Selected Studies of Larry Benson by Andersson Theodore M
azw3 |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Andersson, Theodore M. [Andersson, Theodore M.]

Adam explains that he turned aside from "Bologna, Florence, and Perugia on account of the raging wars of the Duke of Milan."12 By staying within the Duke's territory as far ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 27,2019 )

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