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A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography by John Marincola
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:John Marincola

Chapter Twenty-Seven Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121) Stephanie West QUINTUS: I see, my brother, that you think that different rules must be observed in history and in poetry. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 14,2017 )
Must We Divide History Into Periods? by Le Goff Jacques; DeBevoise Malcolm;
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Le Goff, Jacques; DeBevoise, Malcolm;

1492. A glorious year? I have already said that it was indisputably a decisive moment. But its influence on the course of history can be interpreted in different ways, which ...
( Category: Renaissance January 8,2017 )
Running With the Bulls by Valerie Hemingway
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Valerie Hemingway [Hemingway, Valerie]

Thomas Reginald Smith and Millicent Danby on their wedding day, December 5, 1936, in Blackheath, London. COLLECTION OF VALERIE HEMINGWAY Valerie Danby-Smith on her first birthday, May 5, 1941, Dublin. ...
( Category: United States December 7,2016 )
From Alexander to Jesus by Amitay Ory
epub |eng | | Author:Amitay, Ory

a While the other versions of the Midrash call God “The sacred One Blessed be He,” Targum Sheni has “The King of Kings, Yhwh of the hosts.” b That is, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 6,2016 )
The Life of Henry Brulard by John Sturrock
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:John Sturrock

Sunday altar.—Mountains.—Périer garden.—Terrace 40 feet high decked with vines and flowers.—My uncle’s room. J. My private garden next to the water stone.—A. Natural history room.—F. Locked cupboards containing minerals, seashells.—T. ...
( Category: European December 4,2016 )
Metropolitan Tragedy by Marissa Greenberg
epub |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:Marissa Greenberg

In this passage, which one scholar calls “some of the strangest lines in Paradise Lost,” Milton represents Paradise and Hell in terms of the distinct sensorial experiences of the city ...
( Category: Renaissance November 11,2016 )
Time Travel by James Gleick
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:James Gleick

That’s Lucifer, per Lord Byron, on good authority. Luke 4:5: “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 30,2016 )
Soul at the White Heat by Joyce Carol Oates
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

That there was something inside Fern I didn’t know. That I didn’t know her in the way I’d always thought I did. That Fern had secrets and not the good ...
( Category: Modern September 23,2016 )
Classical Literature by Richard Jenkyns
epub |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Richard Jenkyns

CATULLUS (c.84–c.54 BC) came from Verona, north of the River Po, in the region which was officially Cisalpine Gaul until it was incorporated into Italy in the later 40s. It ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical September 22,2016 )
Against Everything by Mark Greif
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Mark Greif

Another obstacle to identifying with hip-hop at the moment it was turning into an epochal art form was the lethal quality of African-American city life in the late 1980s and ...
( Category: Modern September 6,2016 )
An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’ by Immanuel Kant
epub |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Immanuel Kant

( Category: Renaissance August 20,2016 )
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
epub |eng | 2009-04-18 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

By noon, feeling somewhat strengthened and refreshed, we again renewed our attempt at getting up provisions, Peters and myself going down alternately, and always with more or less success, until ...
( Category: United States July 22,2016 )
Dante by Marco Santagata
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Marco Santagata [Santagata, Marco]

Baldo d’Aguglione’s amnesty In the year when Henry’s prospects were beginning to fail, the other actors on the scene were busy in diplomatic exchanges and some major military activity. Clement ...
( Category: Italy July 21,2016 )
Dream Song by Paul Mariani
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Paul Mariani

Chapter 16 The Unmaking of a Marriage 1953 A new year and a new beginning. On Sunday afternoon, January 4, Berryman took a long walk around Lake Carnegie with Monroe ...
( Category: Authors July 12,2016 )
Brecht in Practice by Barnett David
epub |eng | | Author:Barnett, David

Playing the situation and not the character, or: The problem of saying ‘I’ Brecht understands the individual not as a lone, autonomous entity, but as a person in constant dialogue ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 8,2016 )

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