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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 )
When Aseneth Met Joseph by Kraemer Ross Shepard;
epub |eng | 2015-07-08 | Author:Kraemer, Ross Shepard;

NOTES 1. S. Mitchell, Anatolia, 43. 2. Ample useful documentation can be found in Mitchell, Anatolia, 43–51, particularly of evidence from Asia Minor. 3. Mitchell, Anatolia, 45. 4. On angel ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 15,2020 )
The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Andrea Marcolongo

Greek Colors “How differently the Greeks saw the natural world. Their eyes, we must admit, were blind to blue and green; they saw dark brown instead of blue, green instead ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 15,2020 )
Cicero's Brutus (Imperium Romanum) by Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Cicero

“The three following years the city was free from the tumult of arms; but either by the death, the voluntary retirement, or the flight of our ablest Orators (for even ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 15,2020 )
The Sea in the Greek Imagination by Beaulieu Marie-Claire;
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Beaulieu, Marie-Claire;

Taras and Phalanthus Like the story of Enalus, the stories of Taras and Phalanthus are linked to foundation myths—in this case, the foundation myths of Tarentum. The stories of Taras ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 14,2020 )
The Apology by Plato
epub |eng | | Author:Plato [Plato]

It will be very clear to you, Athenians, as I was saying, that Meletus has no care at all, great or small, about the matter. But still I should like ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 13,2020 )
The Anabasis of Cyrus by Xenophon Ambler Wayne Buzzetti Eric
epub |eng | | Author:Xenophon, ,Ambler, Wayne,Buzzetti, Eric

Chapter 7 After this they marched five stages, thirty parasangs, against Taochians, and their provisions gave out, for the Taochians dwelt in strongholds into which they carried up and kept ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 12,2020 )
Euripides and the Politics of Form by Wohl Victoria
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Wohl, Victoria.

CHAPTER 5 Broken Plays for a Broken World Suppliants suggests that tragedy, through its psychagogic effect on its audience, can have a real and material impact on the polis. If ...
( Category: Drama March 10,2020 )
Ovid on Cosmetics by Ovid Johnson Marguerite
epub |eng | 2015-09-27 | Author:Ovid,Johnson, Marguerite [Johnson, Marguerite]

Translation I was constantly saying ‘Desist from treating your locks’; now there is not a tress left for you to dye. Ah, but if you had allowed it, what was ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 10,2020 )
The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Homer [Homer]

Book XXIII Thus did they make their moan throughout the city, while the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship. But Achilles would ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 9,2020 )
Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece by Marta González González
epub |eng | 2018-12-16 | Author:Marta González González

Glykera, daughter of Thoukleides. What is rare for a woman, to be by nature noble and judicious at the same time, this was attained by Glykera in notable degree. The ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 8,2020 )
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
epub |eng | | Author:Arrian

* * * CHAPTER XII. Callisthenes Refuses to Prostrate Himself. By making these and other remarks of a similar kind, Callisthenes greatly annoyed Alexander, but spoke the exact sentiments of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 7,2020 )
The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology by Robin Hard
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robin Hard

Notes 1 Apollod. 3.1.1; Agenor’s wife as Argiope, Pher. F21, Hyg. Fab. 6. 2 Schol. Il. 12.92 citing Hesiod (= fr. 171) and Bacchylides (= fr. 105). 3 Moschus 2, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 7,2020 )
Ecstasy and Terror by Daniel Mendelsohn
epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Daniel Mendelsohn

This is the conclusion to which many good biographies, to say nothing of some very good novels, also lead. “The poor thing that is himself ” is hardly the way ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 6,2020 )

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