Ancient & Classical
azw3 |eng | 2003-10-27 | Author:Heraclitus

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles

OEDIPUS: . But why? If I’m their son—Merope, Polybus? MESSENGER: Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood. OEDIPUS: What are you saying—Po!ybus was not my father? MESSENGER: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

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: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

480 and are the why winter suns dash to dip themselves into the ocean and are what causes long nights to last and linger. But if I am not the ...
( Category: Medieval April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-04 | Author:Sappho [Sappho]

Since I have cast my lot, please, golden-crowned Aphrodite, let me win this round! This song breaks down into the tripartite structure of a kletic hymn (see Introduction, p. xxvi). ...
( Category: Renaissance April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Heraclitus [Heraclitus]

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Sextus Propertius [Propertius, Sextus]

‘Guilty as charged, Propertius – but I won’t hound you. I ruled your books – you gave me a long run. I swear by the Fates, whose thread can’t be ...
( Category: Love Poems April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:Homer [Homer]

14.ILIÁDOS Ξ Now the shouting did not escape the notice of Nestor, although he was drinking, and to the son of Asclepius he addressed winged words: “Take thought, noble Machaon, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 4,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Martial

57 Does it surprise you, my dear poet friend, That when I ask you round to dine I send Some lines of verse? Though Jupiter has his fill Of nectar ...
( Category: Medieval April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Freeman

A PIECE OF parchment from the sixth century AD preserves a different kind of love poem by Sappho. Like many of her songs, the beginning and end are missing, and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Charlotte Brontë [Brontë, Charlotte]

She was not young, as I remember her, but she was still handsome, tall, well-made, and though dark for an Englishwoman, yet wearing always the clearness of health in her ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 28,2020 )
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 )
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-04-12 | Author:Claudian [Claudian]

( Category: Ancient & Classical March 22,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-11-27 | Author:Horace [Horace]

( Category: Love Poems March 22,2020 )