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Annals (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Tacitus

Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Persians and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus
azw3 |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Aeschylus

[By now the CHORUS are all seated close to the altar, on which they have laid some of their suppliant-branches. PELASGUS enters from the direction of the city, in a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Theaetetus (Classics) by Plato
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-10-27 | Author:Plato

Is There a Platonic Theory of Perception in Theaetetus? An affirmative answer is often given to this question: see especially Cornford [2], Modrak [109], Nakhnikian [111] and Reed [114]. Despite ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
azw3 |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Aeschylus

CASSANDRA: Look out! look out!— Ai, drag the great bull from the mate! - a thrash of robes, she traps him - writhing- black horn glints, twists - she gores ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Plays and Fragments (Classics) by Menander
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Menander

ACT ONE SCENE: a street in Corinth. There are two houses, one belonging to Myrrhine, the other to Polemon. Pataikos’s house may have been shown, but it is nowhere necessary ...
( Category: Playwriting April 19,2020 )
Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-23 | 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 Rope and Other Plays (Classics) by Plautus
azw3 |eng | 2007-04-25 | Author:Plautus

A Three-Dollar Day (TRINUMMUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO A THREE-DOLLAR DAY THE Prologue informs us that this play is derived from the Greek of Philemon, and there are reasons for believing ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes
azw3 |eng | 2003-09-24 | 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 )
Dialogues and Letters (Penguin Classics) by Seneca
azw3 |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Seneca

On the Shortness of Life [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] [1] Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Romance of Tristan (Classics) by Beroul
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-30 | Author:Beroul

11 THE LOVE POTION MY lords, you have heard of the wine they drank which caused them to suffer greatly for so long. But you do not know, I think, ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
Orlando Furioso: pt. 2 by Ariosto Ludovico
azw3 |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

48 ‘A cavalier arrived, as it befell, From the Byzantine court, and in his train There rode a lady who, as I heard tell, Drew the admiring glances of all ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Aquinas Thomas
azw3 |eng | 1998-06-24 | Author:Aquinas, Thomas [Aquinas, Thomas]

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 (Classics) by Jeffrey Gantz
azw3 |eng | 2003-12-03 | 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 Book of Margery Kempe (Classics) by Kempe Margery
azw3 |eng | 2005-07-27 | Author:Kempe, Margery [Kempe, Margery]

Chapter 65 Our Lord Jesus Christ said to this creature, ‘Daughter, you shall well see when you are in heaven with me that no man is damned unless he is ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Geoffrey Chaucer by David Wallace
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:David Wallace [Wallace, David]

Genre: no genre Sixteenth-century editors of Chaucer needed to represent him as at once strange and familiar, foreign and one of us. He is one of us as an Englishman, ...
( Category: Medieval April 16,2020 )

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