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The Letters, Volume 1 by Cicero
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

CII (F I, 5 b) TO P. LENTULUS SPINTHER (IN CILICIA) Rome (February) B.C. 56, ÆT. 50 What is being done and has been done here I imagine you know ...
( Category: Rome July 22,2020 )
A History of Greek Literature by Albrecht Dihle
epub |eng | | Author:Albrecht Dihle

Part III CLASSICAL LITERATURE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY BC 11 SOCRATES AND SOCRATIC THOUGHT In general and literary history alike, the fourth century BC stands out clearly as an era ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 21,2020 )
Greek Historiography by Scanlon Thomas F.;
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Scanlon, Thomas F.; [Scanlon, Thomas F.]

Conclusions Xenophon’s two major historical works present different paradigms of conflicts and shifting power. While the Anabasis can be seen to focus more directly on issues of leadership and divine ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 21,2020 )
Plays and Fragments by Menander
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Menander

The Rape of the Locks1 [Perikeiromene] Introductory Note to The Rape of the Locks The date of the play is quite uncertain, and a good deal of it is lost. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
The Athenian Constitution (The Penguin classics) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Aristotle

P THE ATHLOTHETAE (Chapter 60) Having completed his survey of officials appointed annually by lot our author turns to officials of other kinds, in this chapter a board which was ...
( Category: Constitutions July 17,2020 )
The Early History of Rome by Livy
epub |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Livy

BOOK FOUR War and Politics The next consuls were Marcus Genucius and Gaius Curtius. War and political dissension made the year a difficult one. Hardly had it begun, when the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical 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 )
The Enneads by Plotinus
epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-06-30 | Author:Plotinus

18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the Soul uses deliberate reason29 before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical 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 )
Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
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 )
From Alexander to Jesus by Amitay Ory;
epub |eng | | Author:Amitay, Ory;

a While the other versions of the Midrash call God “The sacred One Blessed be He,” Targum Sheni has “The King of Kings, Yhwh of the hosts.” b That is, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 5,2020 )
Literary Theory and the New Testament by Michal Beth Dinkler;
epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Michal Beth Dinkler;

6 The Corinthian Corpus and Epistolary Embodiment: Reading Paul’s Epistles with Affect Theorists and Ecocritics For now, we see through a glass in obscurity; but then face to face: now ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 4,2020 )
Hellenistic Lives by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2015-12-05 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

[9] Then, convinced that the long-anticipated moment had arrived, they ran en masse to the tyrant’s house to set it on fire. The towering flames that arose from the burning ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 3,2020 )
In Translation by Esther Allen
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Esther Allen

On Translating a Poem by Osip Mandelstam JOSÉ MANUEL PRIETO TRANSLATED BY ESTHER ALLEN I In 1996, the Mexican historian Jean Meyer asked me to translate a poem by the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )
The Origin of Sin by Prudentius;Malamud Martha A.; & Martha A. Malamud
epub |eng | | Author:Prudentius;Malamud, Martha A.; & Martha A. Malamud

“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )

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