Ancient & Classical
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Homer & Fagles

BOOK THIRTEEN: Battling for the Ships But once Zeus had driven Hector and Hector's Trojans hard against the ships, he left both armies there, milling among the hulls to bear ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical August 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Anne Carson & Euripides [Carson, Anne]

3rd CHORAL ODE Bakkhai: When shall I set my white foot in the allnight dances, when shall I lift my throat to the dewy air, like a fawn skylarking in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 31,2020 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Andrew Lang

TO KNOW IF A MANUSCRIPT IS PERFECT If the manuscript is of English or French writing of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, or fifteenth centuries, it is probably either—(1) a Bible, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 29,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Marie France

lady whose hair is neither tawny nor brown. She is the most beautiful of all women in the world.’ Lanval heard this and raised his head, for he knew her ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-08-29 | Author:Ludovico Ariosto

48 ‘A cavalier arrived, as it befell, From the Byzantine court, and in his train There rode a lady who, as I heard tell, Drew the admiring glances of all ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Homer & Andrew Lang

The others applauded what Antinous had said, and each one sent his servant to bring his present. Antinous's man returned with a large and lovely dress most exquisitely embroidered. It ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-07 | Author:The Jalaluddin Rumi

Don’t speak of foolish things in your pretence. Enough! Don’t speak such proud and boastful words! How long the pompous, self-important speech? Look at your deeds and state, and have ...
( Category: Love Poems July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-30 | Author:Apollonius Rhodes

BOOK FOUR HOMEWARD BOUND Now tell us, Muse, in your own heavenly tongue how the Colchian maiden schemed and suffered. Speak, Daughter of Zeus; for here your poet falters and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-30 | Author:Homer

12 Scylla and Charybdis ‘From the flowing waters of the River of Ocean my ship passed into the wide spaces of the open sea; and so reached the island of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering. It speaks not articulately, and must be made to. Meantime the education of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-14 | Author:Michael Schmidt [Schmidt, Michael]

Something must be wrong with a style that can aestheticize and morally neutralize such a scene. Six months, and I sit still and hold In two cold palms her two ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 9,2020 )