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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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
mobi, pdf |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Jean Baudrillard

ABSOLUTE ADVERTISING, GROUND-ZERO ADVERTISING Today what we are experiencing is the absorption of all virtual modes of expression into that of advertising. All original cultural forms, all determined languages are ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 14,2020 )
Gilgamesh Among Us by Ziolkowski Theodore.;
epub |eng | | Author:Ziolkowski, Theodore.;

Gilgamesh Psychoanalyzed Despite the early interest of Freud and Jung, which we noted in chapter 1, and the conspicuous exception of Joseph Campbell, the Gilgamesh epic was essentially neglected in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 14,2020 )
The Civil Wars by Appian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Appian

BOOK IV 1. In this way two of Caesar’s murderers, Trebonius in Asia and Decimus in Gaul, met their deserts when they were attacked and defeated in their own provinces. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 14,2020 )
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture) by Jeffrey M. Hunt & R. Alden Smith & Fabio Stok
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:Jeffrey M. Hunt & R. Alden Smith & Fabio Stok [Hunt, Jeffrey M.]

FIGURE 4.5. Piero della Francesca, portrait of the duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro (1490–1492). Tempera on panel. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. Previously existing universities, which long remained strongholds of Aristotelian ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 14,2020 )
On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (Hackett Classics) by Woodruff Paul & Thucydides
epub |eng | 2010-12-20 | Author:Woodruff, Paul & Thucydides [Woodruff, Paul]

SPEECH OF THE THEBANS [61] We would not have asked permission to make a speech if these men had given a brief answer to the question, instead of turning against ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 7,2020 )
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
epub |eng | 2020-02-25 | Author:Anne Carson

Enter Norma Jeane on wind phone, hand to ear. Dear Hermione, I dreamed of you. I saw you floating face down. Every day is a struggle here, I woke up ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 4,2020 )
Lucan's Imperial World by Laura Zientek;Mark Thorne;
epub |eng | 2019-11-28 | Author:Laura Zientek;Mark Thorne; [Thorne, Laura Zientek and Mark]

References Ahl, F. (1976), Lucan: An Introduction, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Arena, V. (2012), Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 2,2020 )
Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle by Marcelo D. Boeri Yasuhira Y. Kanayama & Jorge Mittelmann
epub |eng | | Author:Marcelo D. Boeri, Yasuhira Y. Kanayama & Jorge Mittelmann

6.3 Conclusion To conclude, I would like to deal again with two questions that have gradually appeared throughout this paper. The first is this: what does it mean to be ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 1,2020 )
The Art of Veiled Speech by Baltussen Han; Davis Peter J.;
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Baltussen, Han; Davis, Peter J.;

One of the most striking elements of this passage is Valerius’s use of the word patres, highlighted as it is by the alliteration of “p” sounds. Variously translated as “fathers” ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 1,2020 )
Searching for Sappho by Philip Freeman
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Freeman

A PIECE OF parchment from the sixth century AD preserves a different kind of love poem by Sappho. Like many of her songs, the beginning and end are missing, and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 29,2020 )

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