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The Life of Appollonius Of Tyana by Flavius Philostratus
epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Flavius Philostratus [Philostratus, Flavius]

[§12] That he was enabled to make such forecasts by some divine impulse, and that it is no sound inference to infer, as some people do, that our hero was ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2020 )
Looking at Lysistrata by Stuttard David;
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Stuttard, David;

7 On Misunderstanding the Lysistrata, Productively Martin Revermann (The women, in a circle, place their right hands together.) Lampito Keep it zipped till they flip! Women Keep it zipped till ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2020 )
The Seven Against Thebes (Plays by Aeschylus) by Aeschylus
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Aeschylus

ETEOCLES Ah, may they meet the doom they think to bring- They and their impious vaunts-from those on high! So should they sink, hurled down to deepest death! This foe, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2020 )
The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
epub |eng | | Author:Gilbert Highet

§4. ENGLAND ‘We are all Greeks.’ SHELLEY1 The lands of Greece and Rome and their civilization were only one of the many excitements under which the English revolutionary writers produced ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 24,2020 )
Ancient Egyptian Literature by Lichtheim Miriam Lopriano Antonio
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Lichtheim, Miriam, Lopriano, Antonio

NOTES 1. The terms “horizon” and horizon-dwellers” were studied by Kuentz in BIFAO, 17 (1920), 121-190, where he assembled evidence to show that “lightland,” referred to the remote eastern regions ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 23,2020 )
Weeping for Dido by Woods Marjorie Curry;
epub |eng | 2019-01-18 | Author:Woods, Marjorie Curry;

11 Scaffai, “Tradizione manoscritta.” 12 E.g., {Incipit homeri translat<i>o a pindaro quoda<m> in latinum facta} (SSB Diez. B Sant. 4, fol. 169r); some abbreviation marks appear to have been trimmed ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 21,2020 )
Demosthenes' "On the Crown by Murphy James J.; Agnew Lois Peters; Mirhady David
epub |eng | | Author:Murphy, James J.; Agnew, Lois Peters; Mirhady, David

( Category: Ancient & Classical March 21,2020 )
Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness by Anspach Mark R
epub |eng | | Author:Anspach, Mark R. [Anspach, Mark R.]

His language has a sort of grandiloquence that would be ridiculous in ordinary circumstances; there is something dominating about his gestures; his very thinking is impatient of proportion and easily ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 20,2020 )
Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery by Hunt Peter;
epub |eng | 2017-08-16 | Author:Hunt, Peter;

8 Manumission and Ex-Slaves Many who are not even free now tomorrow will be citizens from Sounion [a town in the mining district of Attica]. Anaxandrides (fourth-century Athenian comic playwright), ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 20,2020 )
The World Of Homer by Andrew Lang
epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

The general result of the archaeological evidence for early Ionia is to show, in early Ionian work, the Aegean element stronger, and the Danubian or central European element less strong, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 19,2020 )
The Dance of the Islands by Constantakopoulou Christy;
epub |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Constantakopoulou, Christy;

7.3. SOME GENERAL REMARKS The above examination of islands and their peraiai allows us to express some general remarks about the relationship between insular units and mainland territories. We need ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 19,2020 )
Migrating Tales by Richard Kalmin
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Kalmin

FIVE Zechariah and the Bubbling Blood AN ANCIENT TRADITION IN JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND MUSLIM LITERATURE THIS CHAPTER EXAMINES JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, and Muslim traditions about a murder in the Temple of ...
( Category: Talmud March 19,2020 )
Anachronism and Antiquity by Tim Rood;Carol Atack;Tom Phillips;
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Tim Rood;Carol Atack;Tom Phillips;

Anachronism incorporated The idealized simplicity of the past was not simply treated with nostalgia or for satire. The possibility of its incorporation in political structures in the present was a ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 19,2020 )
Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold.24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero.25 For our ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 17,2020 )
Interpreting Plato Socratically by J. Angelo Corlett
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:J. Angelo Corlett

References Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Nicholas D. Smith. 1994. Plato’s Socrates. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ———. 2010. Socratic moral psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cherniss, Harold. 1945. The riddle of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 16,2020 )

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