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The Arabian Nights by Anonymous & Ursula Lyons & Robert Irwin
epub |eng | 2010-01-11 | Author:Anonymous & Ursula Lyons & Robert Irwin

Nights 535 to 554 Morning now dawned and Shahrazad broke off from what she had been allowed to say. Then, when it was the five hundred and thirty-fifth night, SHE ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 19,2020 )
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Ibn Fadlan [Ibn Fadlān]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
The Koran by N.J. Dawood
epub |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:N.J. Dawood

Ṭā’ Hā’ In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate [20:1] Ṭā’ hā’. It was not to distress you that We revealed the Koran to you, but to admonish ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference April 19,2020 )
The Roman History by Cassius Dio
epub |eng | 1987-04-18 | Author:Cassius Dio

6. While these events were in progress, Augustus visited Sicily to settle affairs in that island and in other territories, and travelled as far as Syria. While he was still ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Metamorphosis by Ovid
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Ovid

Book 9 Hercules is the key figure in the next group of stories. Acheloüs and Hercules (1–97) is a lively account of how the river-god fought with the hero for ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Latin Literature by Michael Grant
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Michael Grant

THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | 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 April 19,2020 )
The Satires of Horace and Persius by Horace
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Horace

EPISTLE 16 After describing his Sabine estate, Horace reflects on the nature of goodness. My dear Quinctius, to save you asking about my farm – whether it feeds its master ...
( Category: Satire April 19,2020 )
Civil War by Lucan
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan [Lucan]

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
epub |eng | 1983-04-18 | Author:Hippocrates

REGIMEN IN ACUTE DISEASES The effect of various regimens upon an ailing body. Apparently a polemic treatise written to refute certain doctrines held by the neighbouring school of medicine at ...
( Category: Historical Bibliographies & Indexes April 19,2020 )
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
epub |eng | 2017-05-21 | 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 )
The Iliad by Homer & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox
epub |eng | 1991-06-30 | Author:Homer & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox

But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together, shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt that cinched his body-shield around his chest— but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Essays by Plutarch
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 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley
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 )
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
epub |eng | 1953-04-18 | 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 )

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