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A Companion to Greek Literature (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:

8. The Elasticity of the Greek Novel After this brief survey we are in a better position to ask whether the love novel as represented by the “big five” should ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
Thucydides (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Thucydides
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-30 | Author:Thucydides

656 The four major Panhellenic athletic festivals were the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian, and an extension was needed because the Pythian took place in late summer while the truce ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
Orpheus: The Song of Life by Wroe Ann
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Wroe, Ann [Wroe, Ann]

Medieval theologians followed Orpheus into a lower world already licked by fire. As an enlightened soul – as Intellect itself – he had no business to be there, among small ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) by Aesop
epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
The Morals, vol. 2 by Plutarch
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Plutarch

Old age the Cyprian queen must ever shun, And Venus from old men in scorn doth run. Therefore they marry not in May, but tarry till June, which is presently ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean by Cunliffe Barry;
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Cunliffe, Barry;

7.18 A marble stele commemorating Diodotus Tryphon found in the Greek city of Tanis at the mouth of the Don in the kingdom of Bosporus. He is dressed in scale ...
( Category: Historical Events May 15,2019 )
Rumi: The Big Red Book by Coleman Barks
epub |eng | 2018-10-19 | Author:Coleman Barks

( Category: Medieval April 29,2019 )
Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages by Ali Samer M.;
epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Ali, Samer M.;

THE PRAGMATICS OF VALUE: ADJUSTMENT AND RECEPTION A poet in performance is faced with the demands of attracting and holding the attention of an unstable audience.82 Nevertheless, what we witness ...
( Category: Medieval April 29,2019 )
Chaucer by Marion Turner
epub |eng | 2019-02-07 | Author:Marion Turner

1 Jane Black, Absolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza, 1329–1535 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 52. 2 Saul, Richard II, 85; Anthony Tuck, ...
( Category: European April 10,2019 )
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard & Liza Picard
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Liza Picard & Liza Picard

Pardons The royal power to pardon may evoke a compassionate sovereign embracing his sinful subjects. The reality was rather different. Pardons could bring welcome additions to the sovereign’s treasury. Following ...
( Category: Medieval March 27,2019 )
The Shahnameh by Hamid Dabashi
epub |eng | | Author:Hamid Dabashi

WHEN HISTORY REMEMBERS ITSELF From this point forward, we begin to see the unfolding drama of world history dreamed inside the memorial consciousness of the Shahnameh, in what we can ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 26,2019 )
The Satyricon by Petronius
epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Petronius [Petronius]

50 They lock little fingers into the snake-jaws, Each for the other, neither from self-love – Brother for brother, their love is requited, Death a deliverance from mutual mourning. Added ...
( Category: Medieval April 14,2018 )
Iphigeneia by Euripides
epub |eng | 2017-04-16 | Author:Euripides [Euripides]

Iphigeneia in Tauris Written 414-412 B.C. First performed in 412 B.C. Translated by George Theodoridis © 2009 https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/ Dramatis Personae IPHIGENEIA: Sister of Orestes ORESTES: Brother of Iphigeneia PYLADES: Friend ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical September 1,2017 )
Inferno by Anita Kinley
epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anita Kinley [Kinley, Anita]

44 Anita Kinley “Dylan. My name is Dylan. And I think you’re close to coming.” Dylan watched as Whisman nodded. Desire surged though his body, seeing those gray eyes close ...
( Category: European June 29,2017 )
Complete Odes by Pindar; Verity Anthony; Instone Stephen
epub |eng | 2007-04-23 | Author:Pindar; Verity, Anthony; Instone, Stephen

for young men, artificers of honey-voiced revels, impatient for your voice, await you by Asopus’* waters. Each deed thirsts after something different, but victory in the games loves song above ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 24,2017 )

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