Ancient & Classical
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Sean A. Adams;

uixit plurimum in secessu ruris sui Sabini aut Tiburtini, domusque eius ostenditur circa Tiburni luculum. 〈* * *〉 uenerunt in manus meas et elegi sub titulo eius et epistola prosa ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:DONALD KAGAN

* * * 1 Gomme, Hist. Comm., I, 158. 2 Thuc. 1. 24. 1—2; the date of foundation comes from the Chronicles of Eusebius and is generally accepted as approximately ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Donald Kagan [Kagan, Donald]

* * * 1 Beloch, GG2 II:1, 324. 2 Busolt, GG III:2, 1056. 3 West, CP XIX (1924), 201. 4 See Beloch, GG2 II: 2, 261–264. 5 If D. M. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Donald Kagan [Kagan, Donald]

* * * 1 6.26.2. 2 There is not perfect agreement on the chronology of the important events of the year 415. Good discussions may be found in Douglas MacDowell’s ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Kate Hodges

The insatiable monsters also played a role in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts. During their quest, the fleece chasers washed up on a remote island where they found ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Carson, Anne

Letters, Letters ‘Letters’ (grammata) can mean ‘letters of the alphabet’ and also ‘epistles’ in Greek as in English. Novels contain letters of both kinds, and offer two different perspectives on ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Wills, Garry

( Category: Ancient & Classical January 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:J. C. McKeown [McKeown, J. C.]

The rise of Christianity did very little to curb slavery. Even St. Augustine, in the 5th century, thought it acceptable for slaves to be obtained by kidnapping, provided the kidnapping ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Emily Katz Anhalt [Anhalt, Emily Katz]

Cultivating the Humane Imagination By emphasizing Ajax’s changing relationships and his self-destructive refusal to accept friendships and enmities that can change over time, this play suggests that striving to help ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-02 | Author:Bate, Jonathan;

11 AN INFIRMITY NAMED HEREOS WHERE DO WE GET OUR IDEA OF ROMANTIC LOVE? For the last hundred years, the answer has probably been: from Hollywood, from romantic fiction, and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Margaret Alexiou [Alexiou, Margaret]

14 LAUGHTER ON DISPLAY: MIMIC PERFORMANCES AND THE DANGER OF LAUGHING IN BYZANTIUM Przemysław Marciniak Humour and performance are inextricably linked together by the performers we conventionally describe as ‘mimes’ ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:Barbara Graziosi

Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...
( Category: Epic January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Barbara Graziosi

Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 30,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-08-23 | Author:Helen Morales [Morales, Helen]

Know thyself Freud used classical myths throughout his writings as points of comparison and reference, but only three are discussed at any length: Oedipus, Prometheus, and Medusa. Freud’s interpretation of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-23 | Author:Nicola Gardini

I didn’t really start reading Ovid until after college. Rather than start right in on the Metamorphoses, I began with the Heroides, a collection of imaginary letters written by mythological ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 29,2019 )