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Heroides (Classics) by Ovid
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Ovid [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: Love Poems March 28,2020 )
The Robin Hood Handbook by Mike Dixon-Kennedy
epub | | | Author:Mike Dixon-Kennedy

When house or harth doth sluttish lye, I pinch the maidens black and blue; The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I, And lay them naked all to view. ‘Twixt sleepe ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2020 )
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 Suppliants (Plays by Aeschylus) by Aeschylus
epub |eng | 2016-10-22 | Author:Aeschylus

THE KING OF ARGOS We spake thee fair-speak thou them fair in turn. LEADER What marvel that we loathe them, scared in soul? THE KING OF ARGOS Awe towards a ...
( Category: Medieval 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 )
The Metamorphoses (Epic Story) by Apuleius
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Apuleius

THE SIXTH BOOK THE TWENTY-THIRD CHAPTER How Apuleius carried away the Gentlewoman, and how they were taken againe by the theeves, and what a kind of death was invented for ...
( Category: Medieval March 23,2020 )
Recipes for Thought by Wall Wendy
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Wall, Wendy

’Tis the Season Shakespeare’s early seventeenth-century play All’s Well That Ends Well, begins with two powerful men dead and a king gravely ill. In the opening scene, the Countess of ...
( Category: Renaissance March 23,2020 )
CliffsNotes on Dante's Divine Comedy by Nikki Moustaki
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Nikki Moustaki

Canto XVI Summary The poets near a waterfall at the edge of the third round of Circle VII, and they can hear the rumbling of its water falling into the ...
( Category: Medieval March 23,2020 )
Complete Works of Sappho by Sappho
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Sappho [Sappho]

LXIX Like a tall forest were their spears, Their banners like a silken sea, When the great host in splendour passed Across the crimson sinking sun. And then the bray ...
( Category: Medieval March 22,2020 )
The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales by Felice Vinci
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Felice Vinci

A CULTURE ON THE MOVE The great Greek poet Hesiod sets “those who died at Thebes and Troy” in an intermediate period between the Bronze and Iron Ages,40 as if ...
( Category: Medieval March 22,2020 )
Epidemics (Medical Library) by Hippocrates
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Hippocrates

Explanation of the characters. It is probably that the great discharge of urine brought about the resolution of the disease, and the cure of the patient on the fortieth day. ...
( Category: Medieval March 22,2020 )
Rogues and Early Modern English Culture by Dionne Craig & Mentz Steve
epub |eng | | Author:Dionne, Craig & Mentz, Steve

PART 3 Rogues and the Early Modern City ADAM HANSEN Sin City and the “Urban Condom” Rogues, Writing, and the Early Modern Urban Environment The Prophylactic and the Proximate Richard ...
( Category: Medieval March 21,2020 )
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 )
The Apologia (Epic Story) by Apuleius
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Apuleius

I have mentioned these things, I have been careful to quote the arguments of renowned philosophers, and to mention the books where they are to be found, and have avoided ...
( Category: Medieval March 21,2020 )
The Georgics by Virgil
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Virgil

Not toward thy rising, Eurus, or the sun’s, But westward and north-west, or whence up-springs Black Auster, that glooms heaven with rainy cold. Hence from their groin slow drips a ...
( Category: Medieval March 20,2020 )

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