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The Early History of Rome by Livy
epub |eng | 2005-05-26 | 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: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
The War With Hannibal: The History of Rome From Its Foundation by Livy
epub |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Livy

BOOK XXVII 1. This, then, was the state of affairs in Spain. Meanwhile in Italy the consul Marcellus, after Salapia had been betrayed into his hands, stormed and captured from ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
The Botticelli Secret: A Novel of Renaissance Italy by Marina Fiorato
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Marina Fiorato

27 Nicodemus of Padua was silent. He had heard the entire incredible tale and now sat, stroking the white stubble at his chin and occasionally grunting faintly, as if he ...
( Category: Renaissance July 16,2020 )
The Enneads by Plotinus
epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-06-30 | Author:Plotinus

18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the Soul uses deliberate reason29 before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
epub |eng | 2006-02-23 | Author:Euripides

[322–380] Your country, greatest when in greatest danger, turns Upon the sneerers her grim glare of hardihood; While laggard states pursue their dark manoeuvres, cold With caution, and blink weakly ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The Homeric Hymns by Homer
epub |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Homer

Just as when a quick thought darts through the heart of a man when cares crowd in on him 45 and toss him about or when bright glances spin off ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
epub |eng | 1998-07-15 | 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 July 16,2020 )
The Fasti (Verse) by Ovid
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Ovid

Fasti 3: MARCH 3.1–10. The poet invokes Mars, father of Romulus and patron-god of Rome, whose name gave rise to March and whose temple dominated the newly built Forum of ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Heroides by Ovid
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Ovid

NOTES 1. Haemonia (the land of Haemon) was another name for Thessaly. Haemon, the lover of Antigone, was the son of Creon, King of Thebes. 2. Boreas was the god ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Daniel Coyle

Every rule directs you either to tamp down selfish instincts that might make you the center of attention, or to serve your fellow actors (support, save, trust, listen). This is ...
( Category: Study Guides July 16,2020 )
THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated) by John Muir
epub |eng | 2015-11-27 | Author:John Muir [Muir, John]

Chapter V The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park Table of Contents When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. And perhaps it is so still, ...
( Category: Mountains July 11,2020 )
The Hidden Writer by Alexandra Johnson
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Alexandra Johnson [Johnson, Alexandra]

“Our press arrived on Tuesday,” Virginia Woolf wrote her sister at the end of April 1917. “I can see that real printing will devour one’s entire life. I am going ...
( Category: Feminist July 11,2020 )
Southern Hyperboles by Michał Choiński
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Michał Choiński

5 HYPERBOLIC DISSOLUTION Tennessee Williams In his foreword to Carson McCullers’s second novel, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Tennessee Williams discusses the gothic tradition of the American South. He stipulates ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 11,2020 )
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Stuart Sim
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stuart Sim

Halley’s major writings and works Halley, Peter, Recent Essays 1990–1996, New York: Edgewise Press, 1997. Halley, Peter, Collected Essays 1971–1987 [1988], Zurich and New York: Bruno Bischofberger Gallery and Sonnabend ...
( Category: Postmodernism July 10,2020 )
The Harlem Renaissance by Cheryl A. Wall
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Cheryl A. Wall [Wall, Cheryl A.]

They danced, Rose and the boy. Oh, they danced! An exercise of rhythmical exactness for two. There was no motion she made that he did not imitate. They reared and ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 10,2020 )

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