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azw3 |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din [al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din]

ON VENOMOUS CREATURES THAT ARE NOT DEADLY These include the dung beetle, the gecko, the thorn-tail lizard, the weasel, the chameleon, the hedgehog, mice and rats, ticks, ants, grubs, lice, ...
( Category: Art April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1973-05-30 | Author:

THE TALE OF KAFUR THE BLACK EUNUCH KNOW, my friends, that when no more than eight years of age I had already cultivated a remarkable habit of telling one big ...
( Category: Multicultural April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Doniger, Wendy [Doniger, Wendy]

KŖṢŅA Like Rāma, Kṛṣņa is an ‘Epic’ figure in two senses of the word: he appears in one of the two great Sanskrit Epics (the Mahābhārata), and he is a ...
( Category: Vedas April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-01-29 | Author:Dawood, N.J. [Dawood, N.J.]

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 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-10-25 | Author:Granoff, Phyllis [Granoff, Phyllis]

21 SIṂHIKĀ Now when her time came the Queen Vicitramālā, wife of Sukośala, gave birth to a son. The delivery was smooth and the baby bore all of the auspicious ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Horace

4 Descende caelo Come down from heaven, Calliope, articulate on the flute a melody long drawn out, or with your incisive voice, if you prefer, or upon the strings of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author:Plato

He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...
( Category: Philosophers 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 |eng | 1996-09-25 | Author:Aristotle

14. Reference conventions Like many translators of the Poetics I have divided the text into sections and sub-sections to help the reader follow the structure of Aristotle’s exposition. These divisions, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Homer

V Hymn to Aphrodite Muse, speak to me of the works of Aphrodite, the golden one, the Cyprian, she who awakens sweet longing in the gods and subdues the race ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-01-28 | 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 & Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Tacitus

Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-06-18 | Author:Gibbon, Edward [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: Rome 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 |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Aeschylus

[By now the CHORUS are all seated close to the altar, on which they have laid some of their suppliant-branches. PELASGUS enters from the direction of the city, in a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )