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The Apologia and Florida
Excerpts from Apuleius' declamations given at Carthage in the 160's.
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Metamorphoses
To the Right Honourable and Mighty Lord, THOMAS EARLE OF SUSSEX, Viscount Fitzwalter, Lord of Egremont and of Burnell, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Iustice of the forrests and Chases from Trent Southward; Captain of the Gentleman Pensioners of the House of the QUEENE our Soveraigne Lady.
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Best man best speech
A guide to the duties of a best man, focusing on writing a speech for toasting the couple at the reception.
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Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres
"The lectures on rhetoric by Dr. Hugh Blair are too well known to require an extended introduction. They are based largely upon the system of Aristotle, and have served as the groundwork for many modern textbooks on this subject. In their original form they are too long for the use of present-day students, but in the condensed style in which they are presented in this book it is believed they…
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Amor and Psyche
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The Toy-Shop; a Dramatick Satire
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Volos, i︠a︡zycheskoe bozhestvo slavi︠a︡no-russov, sravnennoe s Odinom skandinavov
Volos, i︠a︡zycheskoe bozhestvo slavi︠a︡no-russov, sravnennoe s Odinom skandinavov
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King Arthur in history and legend
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Orationes
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Epigrammata
Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and the first ever to include a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet, who has often been criticised, unfairly, the authors argue, for obscenity and flattery of the Emperor Domitian. The…
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Dē vītā Caesarum
De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars has remained a major source of Roman history.
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Prometheus Bound
An ancient Greek tragedy attributed to Aeschylus. The play follows the sufferings of the Titan Prometheus who has been fastened to a rock by Zeus as punishment for giving the knowledge of fire to mankind.
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The counter-scuffle
The counter-scuffle
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Satyrs upon the Jesuits
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In Catilinam
Emile and Juliette Hazel have just purchased what will be their final home, set in a little clearing an hour's drive from the nearest town. Here, they think, is the place for an idyllic retirement, isolated from the rest of the world save for one neighbor, a doctor, on the far side of the clearing. One day, after they have spent a week in the house, the Hazels' new neighbor comes knocking at…
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Utopian Visions and Revisions
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Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter
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Apollonius Rhodius
"Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the third century B.C.E., is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius refashioned Greek poetry to meet the interests and aesthetics of a Hellenistic audience, especially that of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic period following Alexander's death. In this carefully…
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