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Download or read book Xanthippe written by Eileen Ebert Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not Xanthippe's carrot colored sheath of hair, or her lissome way of walking, like a cat, nor even her devilish gift of mimicry that caused talk. What really set people's tongues wagging were her wild and crazy escapades. For one, she was often seen racing around the country-side on a horse! Granted her father was a renowned riding master, there are certain things that nice girls just don't do! She is still pining for her first love when her parents betroth her to Socrates, a controversial cult leader, who challenges long-held beliefs and takes orders from a 'Daemon'. Unfamiliar surroundings and the characters she meets following her marriage bring a mixture of laughter and rage, a new approach to an old affair, and some hitherto undiscovered strengths. Xanthippe wearies of her husband's ideologies, yet hears them until they become etched on her mind. A turning point in her life comes when she does battle with Zeus himself! Much has been and continues to be written about Socrates. On the other hand there is little to be found about his wife beyond random comments about her sassy tongue and bad temper. After twelve years of meticulous research and writing, author Eileen Ebert Smith presents a captivating new view of Xanthippe and her lace in Greek history. Jill, of Bang Printing, said it all in a note to the author: "Until working on your book, I was never at all interested in Greek history. Your introduction to the many characters involved makes it all come alive like never before." M. E. Robertson Palm Springs, CA 1994
Book Synopsis Xanthippe's Dream by : Philip Edwards
Download or read book Xanthippe's Dream written by Philip Edwards and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When bubonic plague breaks out in Athens in the year 404 B.C., several families escape to a deserted Aegean island. As the refugees confront the external and social challenges facing them, they are attacked by pirates and are beset by crime. To cope with these pressures, Xanthippe's Dream offers solutions to these life-changing dilemmas. But in the end, there is no prescribed resolution and readers become involved in the novel's outcome. The titular character Xanthippe is a well-born Athenian who is modest about her talents. With her friends Philippa and Cleo, she sets out to domesticate her new homeland and a different world is created in this imaginative page-turner. Xanthippe's Dream offers a 50-year history of the island colony.
Download or read book Colloquies written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success and was reprinted thirty times in the next four years. For the edition of March 1522 Erasmus began to add fully developed dialogues, and a book designed to improve boys' use of Latin (and their deportment) soon became a work of literature for adults, although it retained traces of its original purposes. The final Froben edition (March, 1533) had about sixty parts, most of them dialogues. It was in the last form that the Colloquies were read and enjoyed for four centuries. For modern readers it is one of the best introductions to European society of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, with lively descriptions of daily life and provocative discussions of political, religious, social, and literary topics, presented with Erasmus's characteristic wit and verve. Each colloquy has its own introduction and full explanatory, historical, and biographical notes. Volumes 39 and 40 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series - Two-volume set.
Book Synopsis Erasmus on Women by : Erasmus av Rotterdam
Download or read book Erasmus on Women written by Erasmus av Rotterdam and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his writings Erasmus was more interested in arguing than in settling a case. However the equivocation we find in his writings is more than a literary game or a technical expedient. It is the corollary of his scepticism. One can hardly expect unequivocal statements on complex issues such as the role of women in society from a man who holds that `human affairs take so many shapes that definite answers cannot be provided for them all.' But as Erika Rummel demonstrates, the difficulties of interpreting Erasmus' texts do not invalidate their use as sources of social history; they only prevent us from ascribing the views expressed specifically to Erasmus. What emerges from the text is a composite picture of women's role in society, reflecting a spectrum of views held in Erasmus' time rather than a coherent set of views advocated by him personally. Erasmus on Women offers selections from Erasmus' manuals on marriage and widowhood, his rhetorical treatises, and the Colloquies. The texts deal with the courtship, marriage, child-rearing, and widowhood. Selections treating particular topics, such as prostitution, scholarship, and activism, are placed within the context in which they are discussed by Erasmus. Erasmus' dialogues present a lively cast of virgins and mothers, housewives and harlots, shrews and activists. The fifteen texts and excerpts offered here represent a mixture of traditional and progressive thought. Along the traditional lines, he commends women for their role as caregivers and for their service to God and society. In contrast, he holds progressive views (by the standards of his time) on the education of women and breaks with tradition by challenging the idea that celibacy is superior to the married state. Erasmus' views were radical for his time and frequently involved him in controversy. Lavishly praised by some, his writings were bitterly denounced by others. Yet the wide dissemination of his writings makes him an important commentator and influence on the social thought of the sixteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Husband of Xanthippe by : Conrad Seiler
Download or read book The Husband of Xanthippe written by Conrad Seiler and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Delsarte Recitation Book by : Elsie M. Wilbor
Download or read book Delsarte Recitation Book written by Elsie M. Wilbor and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Delsarte Recitation Book and Directory by : Elsie M. Wilbor
Download or read book Delsarte Recitation Book and Directory written by Elsie M. Wilbor and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ante-Nicene Fathers by : Alexander Roberts
Download or read book The Ante-Nicene Fathers written by Alexander Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Yale Review by : George Park Fisher
Download or read book The Yale Review written by George Park Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Ante-Nicene Christian Library: The Apostolic fathers (1870) by : Sir James Donaldson
Download or read book Ante-Nicene Christian Library: The Apostolic fathers (1870) written by Sir James Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The gospel of Peter, The diatesseron of Tatian, The apocalypse of Peter, The visio Pauli, The apocalypses of the Virgin and Sedrach, The testament of Abraham, The acts of Xantippe and Polyxena, The narrative of Zosimus, The apology of Aristides, The epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen's commentary on John, books I-IX, and commentary on Matthew, books I, II, and X-XIV by :
Download or read book The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The gospel of Peter, The diatesseron of Tatian, The apocalypse of Peter, The visio Pauli, The apocalypses of the Virgin and Sedrach, The testament of Abraham, The acts of Xantippe and Polyxena, The narrative of Zosimus, The apology of Aristides, The epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen's commentary on John, books I-IX, and commentary on Matthew, books I, II, and X-XIV written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Additional Volume by : Allan Menzies
Download or read book Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Additional Volume written by Allan Menzies and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Bibliographical synopsis, by Ernest C. Richardson. General index, by Bernhard Pick by : Alexander Roberts
Download or read book The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Bibliographical synopsis, by Ernest C. Richardson. General index, by Bernhard Pick written by Alexander Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron of Tatian, [etc.], Apology of Aristides, [etc.], Origen's Commentary on John, books I-X, and Commentary on Matthew, books I, II, and X-XIV by :
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Book Synopsis The Puttermesser Papers by : Cynthia Ozick
Download or read book The Puttermesser Papers written by Cynthia Ozick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review
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