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Damocles On The Couch
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Download or read book Roman Lyric written by Francis Cairns and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Papers on Catullus and Horace assembles his substantial body of work on Roman Lyric - about 30 papers published between 1969 and 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, along with some new papers. Many aspects of the lyric poetry of Catullus and Horace are treated in this collection. Particular emphasis is given to the political and religious interests of both poets, to their interactions with their contemporaries, to the ‛learning’ which informs their poetry, and to their generic practices. Philological problems of text and interpretation are treated pari passu, as are relevant aesthetic questions. The volume is fully indexed and contains a composite bibliography and addenda and corrigenda. Papers on Catullus and Horace will make access to this body of important scholarly material easier and more convenient for scholars and students of Latin poetry.
Book Synopsis The Tyrants of Syracuse Volume II by : Jeff Champion
Download or read book The Tyrants of Syracuse Volume II written by Jeff Champion and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all sides made for a tumultuous situation within the city, resulting in repeated coups that threw up a series of remarkable tyrants, such as Gelon, Timoleon and Dionysius. In this first volume Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse's wars under the tyrants from the Battle of Himera (480 BC) against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I (367 BC), whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city's power and influence. One of the highlights along the way is the city's heroic resistance to, and eventual decisive defeat of, the Athenian expeditionary force that besieged them for over two years (415-413 BC), an event with massive ramifications for the Greek world. This is the eventful life story of one of the forgotten major powers of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Book Synopsis The Temple of Justice and Other Poems by : George W. Dunn
Download or read book The Temple of Justice and Other Poems written by George W. Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ascendancies written by Bruce Sterling and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.” Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Sterling’s abilities are on full display in Ascendancies, a collection of speculative fiction from a world-class world-building futurist, alternate historian, and mad prophet operating at the peak of his extraordinary powers. Here are twenty-four stories that span the illustrious career of the author who, along with William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, injected the word cyberpunk into the science fiction lexicon. These tales not only traverse galaxies and employ mind-boggling technologies, they also cut back across the centuries into a richly imagined past with style and a sharp satiric edge. Sterling’s unparalleled imagination and courageous originality carry the reader into the future universe of the warring Shapers and Mechanists, rival sects of exiled humanity with radically opposed views of human augmentation. Several stories feature the questionable adventures of the footloose con man Leggy Starlitz in a somewhat-skewed and still-dangerous post–Cold War world. Sterling explores the cyberpunk trope of technology gone wild and the resultant decline of civilization with appropriate gravity, while presenting parables of strangers stuck in very strange lands in a more whimsical vein. Whether chronicling an alien’s encounter with Crusaders in disputed Palestine, depicting the discovery of the key to immortality in a nineteenth-century Times Square magic shop, or portraying bicycles and bad guys in a near-future Tennessee, Sterling’s stories are smart, surprising, genre bending, bold, and outstanding, one and all.
Book Synopsis Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric by : George Payn Quackenbos
Download or read book Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric written by George Payn Quackenbos and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: a series of practical lessons, etc by : George Payn QUACKENBOS (the Elder.)
Download or read book Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: a series of practical lessons, etc written by George Payn QUACKENBOS (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ariadne's Thread by : William F. Hansen
Download or read book Ariadne's Thread written by William F. Hansen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ariadne's Thread is a mini-encyclopedia of more than a hundred such international oral tales, all present in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. It takes into account writings, including early Jewish and Christian literature, recorded in or translated into Greek or Latin by writers of any nationality. As a result, this book will be invaluable not only to classicists and folklorists but also to a wide range of other readers who are interested in stories and storytelling."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Swordplay written by Denise Little and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen rapier-sharp stories of swordplay, magic, and adventure... From a samurai's sword to an assassin's blade, from Custer's cavalry sword to D'Artagnan's deadly weapon, from the sword of Damocles to the legendary Excalibur, these all-new spellbinding tales get straight to the point. Whether it's a sword bespelled to crave blood, cold steel that magicks its wielder into a video game, or a dwarf-crafted blade meant to slay a dragon, these weapons each come sheathed in their own fascinating story that cuts right to the heart of fantasy adventure.
Book Synopsis Damocles On The Couch by : Herbert L. Stricklin
Download or read book Damocles On The Couch written by Herbert L. Stricklin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damocles On The Couch, is about getting your life straight,and it is about stories. Throughout history humans have used stories as vehicles to communicate and pass along information. Herb Stricklin, therapist and educator, has found that stories are a tremendous tool for relaying information regarding sound principles to live one’s life by. Stories afford the listener an opportunity to take the information that they are hearing and apply it to their lives on a much deeper level than just hearing cold hard facts. Jesus used parables to relay some of his most powerful messages. Ancient Greeks and Romans used plays to both entertain and educate those witnessing the performance. Morality plays, such as The Sword Of Damocles, help us to learn life lessons and understand the human condition. In this story, Damocles finds himself placed in a chair with a sword dangling over his head suspended by a single hair. The angst and fear that he experiences is a universal experience for humans (not necessarily a sword, but we have all had things “hanging over our heads”). Stricklin uses stories such as this to paint a picture for people regarding healthy and unhealthy ways of confronting life’s many challenges.
Download or read book The Sacred Band written by James Romm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling look into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Greeks by : Hélène Adeline Guerber
Download or read book The Story of the Greeks written by Hélène Adeline Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of Greece by : Hélène Adeline Guerber
Download or read book The Story of Greece written by Hélène Adeline Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians by : Charles Rollin
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians written by Charles Rollin and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book “The” Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Building Vocabulary 2nd Edition: Level 6 Student Guided Practice Book by : Timothy Rasinski
Download or read book Building Vocabulary 2nd Edition: Level 6 Student Guided Practice Book written by Timothy Rasinski and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help students unlock the meaning of cross-curricular vocabulary words they encounter in the classroom and beyond! This full-color Building Vocabulary workbook provides a systematic approach to learning vocabulary and word families using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and bases. Sixth grade students learn strategies for deciphering roots and their meanings across multiple content areas. Guide students toward independent skills application with daily practice activities!
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Littell's Living Age by : Eliakim Littell
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
