History & Criticism
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-02 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]
CHAPTER XIV SIR TRISTRAM'S BATTLE WITH SIR LAUNCELOT Sir Tristram rode through a forest and saw ten men fighting, and one man did battle against nine. So he rode to ...
( Category:
Gothic & Romantic
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Elliott, Dyan [Elliott, Dyan]
1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray An earlier version of this chapter was presented at the conference “Constructing Medieval Sexualities,” sponsored by the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies in ...
( Category:
Renaissance
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Blake, William [Blake, William]
Thou art my Pride & Self-righteousness: I have found thee out: Thou art reveald before me in all thy magnitude & power Thy Uncircumcised pretences to Chastity must be cut ...
( Category:
Poetry
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:King, Katherine Callen [King, Katherine Callen]
Penelope Penelope is the archetypal faithful wife. The ghost of Agamemnon exclaims, “How good were the thoughts of blameless Penelope, daughter of Ikarios! How well she remembered Odysseus, her lawful ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-12 | Author:
The pioneering techniques, set into place with a new defensive mindset, may be seen in the early fourth‐century BCE circuit wall at Syracuse. Dionysios I recognized the necessity of protecting ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:
Welch has demonstrated that the provision of amphitheaters in Italy and the western provinces during the late republican and early imperial periods was linked to army training and to veteran ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:
The First Intermediate Period—Catching the Most Colorful Moments of Life The First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom are considered basic stages in the elaboration of ideas that had lasting influence ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Nicolson, Adam [Nicolson, Adam]
A first-century BC gold coin or “stater” of the Celtic Parisii tribe, near Paris. Some clues to this world of the horse can be found at a timber town, not ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-30 | Author:Thucydides
656 The four major Panhellenic athletic festivals were the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian, and an extension was needed because the Pythian took place in late summer while the truce ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Romilly, Jacqueline de [Romilly, Jacqueline de]
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 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Sophocles & Aeschylus & Euripides
strophe CHORUS: Someone who wishes to live too long, who spurns a moderate share in life, clings, all too clearly, in my view, to delusion. For the long days pile ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Homer
“Respected wife of Odysseus, son of Laërtēs, do not any longer delay this contest in your house, for resourceful Odysseus will arrive here before that— 585 before these fellows can ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:Homer
So he spoke, and Idomeneus lashed the fine-maned horses back to the hollow ships, for fear had seized his heart.625 Nor did great-hearted Aias and Menelaös fail to see that ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
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