Ancient & Classical
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Dante

87. The metaphorical vineyard (fairly obviously the Church) turns gray with rot if its keeper (obviously the pope) does not take good care of it. This reference to Boniface VIII ...
( Category: European March 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Dante

67–69. Nino comments upon the unknown and unknowable purpose of God in bringing this living human soul into the immortal realm. He is content to accept the quia, the sheer ...
( Category: European March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-29 | Author:Hesiod

ΘΕΟΓΟΝΙΑ (THE THEOGONY) Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ’ ἀείδειν, αἵ θ’ Ἑλικῶνος ἔχουσιν ὄρος μέγα τε ζάθεόν τε, καί τε περὶ κρήνην ἰοειδέα πόσσ’ ἁπαλοῖσιν ὀρχεῦνται καὶ βωμὸν ἐρισθενέος Κρονίωνος· 5 καί ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Flaccus, Horace Quintus Horatius [Flaccus, Horace Quintus Horatius]

ARS POETICA (VERSE) Translated by John Conington TO THE PISOS, FATHER AND SONS. HUMANO CAPITI. Suppose some painter, as a tour de force, Should couple head of man with neck ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-09 | Author:Aristophanes

Στρεψιάδης Τί δῆτ᾿ ἐκεῖνον τὸν Θαλῆν θαυμάζομεν ; 180 Ἄνοιγ᾿ ἄνοιγ᾿ ἁνύσας τὸ φροντιστήριον καὶ δεῖξον ὡς τάχιστά μοι τὸν Σωκράτη. Μαθητιῶ γάρ. Ἀλλ᾿ ἄνοιγε τὴν θύραν. Ὦ Ἡράκλεις, ταυτὶ ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

As though to match our fourfold loss – to gain, Who with his nephews are compared, with reason; Knights such as these are few at any season. 58 ‘I do ...
( Category: Poetry March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Apollonius Of Rhodes

a bride, bewailing in the marriage chamber the absence of the blooming youth on whom 870 (658)her parents and her brothers had bestowed her— how, out of shame and shyness, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:VIRGIL

BOOK 8 When Turnus had assembled all his pow'rs, His standard planted on Laurentum's tow'rs; When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar, Had giv'n the signal of approaching war, Had ...
( Category: Epic November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Aeschylus [Aeschylus]

ATOSSA Alas, their ruthless fate, unhappy friends! But in what manner, tell me, did they perish? MESSENGER Full against Salamis an isle arises, Of small circumference, to the anchor'd bark ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 11,2014 )