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Shakespeare's Tragedies by Stanley Wells
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Stanley Wells

And, noble signor, If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. (1.3.288–90) The malice and evil-spiritedness of Iago are firmly established in his opening ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
The Roman History by Cassius Dio
epub |eng | 1987-04-18 | Author:Cassius Dio

6. While these events were in progress, Augustus visited Sicily to settle affairs in that island and in other territories, and travelled as far as Syria. While he was still ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | 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 April 19,2020 )
Essays by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Plutarch

ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
epub |eng | 1953-04-18 | Author:Sophocles

WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Tain by Ciaran Carson
epub |eng | 2007-04-18 | Author:Ciaran Carson

headstones erected on graves, increased by the royal dead; not well do you bring the fight to this solitary blade. I see his malignant shape, the nine heads under his ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 19,2020 )
Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Thomas Aquinas

17. Definitions of Soul. On Aristotle’s De anima, 2, 1–3(1268) It was while he was still teaching at Santa Sabina in Rome that Thomas Aquinas wrote his commentary on Aristotle’s ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
The Mabinogion by Jeffrey Gantz
epub |eng | 2018-03-11 | Author:Jeffrey Gantz

The Dream of Rhonabwy The most literary of the tales in The Mabinogion, ‘Rhonabwy’ may also be the last to have taken shape. Madawg son of Maredudd – a genuine ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Enneads (Classics) by Plotinus
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-29 | 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 April 19,2020 )
The Alexiad (Penguin Classics) by Komnene Anna
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Komnene, Anna [Komnene, Anna]

BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
Shahnameh (Penguin Classics) by Ferdowsi Abolqasem
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Complete Odes and Epodes (Classics) by Horace
azw3 |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Horace

4 Descende caelo Come down from heaven, Calliope, articulate on the flute a melody long drawn out, or with your incisive voice, if you prefer, or upon the strings of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) by Lucretius
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius

Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
azw3 |eng | 1996-09-25 | Author:Aristotle

14. Reference conventions Like many translators of the Poetics I have divided the text into sections and sub-sections to help the reader follow the structure of Aristotle’s exposition. These divisions, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Homeric Hymns (Penguin Classics) by Homer
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Homer

V Hymn to Aphrodite Muse, speak to me of the works of Aphrodite, the golden one, the Cyprian, she who awakens sweet longing in the gods and subdues the race ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )

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