Philosophy
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Plutarch

ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:David Womersley [Gibbon, Edward]

[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category: Historiography April 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-29 | 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 April 19,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-30 | Author:

FRAGMENTS AND REFERENCES TO KNOWN WORKS It is Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his essay On the Style of Demosthenes, who preserves for us the only substantial fragment that survives of ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-06-07 | Author:Shaw, Sarah [Shaw, Sarah]

{21} The story of the monkey king Mahakapi Jataka (407) Vol. III, 369–75 The selfless monkey has always been a great favourite throughout South-East Asia. It is shown at Ajanta, ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius

Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-28 | Author:Plato

C[3] 488b2–491d3 Socrates does not immediately defend himself from Callicles’ attack, but goes to work on his claim by attempting to get him to clarify what he meant by ‘stronger’ ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-10-27 | Author:Plato

Is There a Platonic Theory of Perception in Theaetetus? An affirmative answer is often given to this question: see especially Cornford [2], Modrak [109], Nakhnikian [111] and Reed [114]. Despite ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Aeschylus

CASSANDRA: Look out! look out!— Ai, drag the great bull from the mate! - a thrash of robes, she traps him - writhing- black horn glints, twists - she gores ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Sophocles

WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Seneca

There may be pleasure in the memory Of even these events one day.* He should put his whole heart into the fight against them. If he gives way before them ...
( Category: Letters April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Cicero

Thus nature favours nothing solitary, but always inclines towards some kind of assistance, which the dearest friend provides in the most agreeable way. Yet even though this same nature communicates ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
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 |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:Lucian & Diogenes Of Sinope & Julian

126 On Self-Sufficiency [5] Just as a good actor should perform well any role the playwright assigns him, so a good man should play well whatever role fortune assigns him. ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-08-27 | Author:Plato

23. The process of transformation further explained. The main bulk of each body tends to collect in a particular region. From all we have so far said about the four ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )