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The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians Prometheus Bound Seven Against Thebes the Suppliants by Aeschylus
epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | 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 July 17,2020 )
De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Aristotle

Chapter Two Now in our investigation of the soul, if we are in doubt about those things of which we should gain clear knowledge as we proceed, it is necessary ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:John Mandeville

Next to Chaldea is the land of Amazoun [the Amazons], which we call the Maiden Land or the Land of Women; no man lives there, only women. This is not ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
epub |eng | 2004-05-27 | Author:Thomas Malory

Book XIV CHAPTER 1: How Sir Percival came to a recluse and asked her counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt Now saith the tale, that ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy July 16,2020 )
The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L. Byock
epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Jesse L. Byock

7. Victory runes shall you know If you want to secure wisdom, And cut them on the sword hilt, On the center ridge of the blade, And the parts of ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
epub |eng | 2005-04-28 | Author:Snorri Sturluson

50. Hakon returns to Norway HAKON now left Denmark and went back north to his estates in Norway. His kinsman, Earl Orm, was dead by then. Hakon’s friends and kinsmen ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles
epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles

Another is now mistress of your husband’s bed; A new queen rules in your house. [Enter JASON.] JASON I’ve often noticed – this is not the first time – What ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The War With Hannibal: The History of Rome From Its Foundation by Livy
epub |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Livy

BOOK XXVII 1. This, then, was the state of affairs in Spain. Meanwhile in Italy the consul Marcellus, after Salapia had been betrayed into his hands, stormed and captured from ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
epub |eng | 2006-02-23 | Author:Euripides

[322–380] Your country, greatest when in greatest danger, turns Upon the sneerers her grim glare of hardihood; While laggard states pursue their dark manoeuvres, cold With caution, and blink weakly ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The Homeric Hymns by Homer
epub |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Homer

Just as when a quick thought darts through the heart of a man when cares crowd in on him 45 and toss him about or when bright glances spin off ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
epub |eng | 1998-07-15 | 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 July 16,2020 )
The Fasti (Verse) by Ovid
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Ovid

Fasti 3: MARCH 3.1–10. The poet invokes Mars, father of Romulus and patron-god of Rome, whose name gave rise to March and whose temple dominated the newly built Forum of ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Heroides by Ovid
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Ovid

NOTES 1. Haemonia (the land of Haemon) was another name for Thessaly. Haemon, the lover of Antigone, was the son of Creon, King of Thebes. 2. Boreas was the god ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
The Tale of Wieland Smith by Ben Waggoner
epub |eng | 2020-04-08 | Author:Ben Waggoner [Waggoner, Ben]

BIBLIOGRAPHY Andersson, Theodore M. “An Interpretation of Þiðreks saga.” Structure and Meaning in Old Norse Literature: New Approaches to Textual Analysis and Literary Criticism. John Lindow, Lars Lönnroth, and Gerd ...
( Category: Medieval July 6,2020 )
A Companion to Arthurian Literature by Fulton Helen;
epub |eng | 2011-11-20 | Author:Fulton, Helen;

The Fallible Gawain of Chivalric Romance When the Arthurian legend was elaborated in the twelfth century by Chrétien de Troyes and his followers, a new set of literary and cultural ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 5,2020 )

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