Ancient, classical and medieval texts Books

The book titled ""The Orations of Demosthenes, On Occasions of Public Deliberation V2: Translated into English, with Notes"" was written by Demosthenes and published in 1763. This book is a collection of speeches given by Demosthenes on various public...

La Petreade: Ou Pierre Le Createur (1763) est un livre �����crit par Mainvilliers et Genu Soalhat. Il raconte l'histoire de Pierre, un cr�����ateur qui a le pouvoir de donner vie aux objets inanim�����s. Pierre utilise son pouvoir pour cr�����er une...

Chinese Poetry In English Verse is a collection of translations of Chinese poetry by Herbert Allen Giles. The book was first published in 1898 and has since become a classic in the field of Chinese literature. The poems in the book cover a wide range of...

Tibullus, poeta Romanus, opus suum intitulavit ""Carmina, Liber Tertius: Cum Libro Quarto Sulpiciae Et Aliorum"" anno 1777. In hoc libro, Tibullus carmina suos de amore, vita rustica, et amicitia scripsit. ""Cum Libro Quarto Sulpiciae Et Aliorum""...

Liber Octavus Argonauticorum C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi, intitulatus ""Ad Optimas Editiones Collati"" anno MDCC-LXXXVI editus est a Flacco, Gaius Valerius. In hoc libro, poeta narrat de aventuris Argonautarum, qui ad Colchidem navigaverunt ut aureum...

Avrelii Cornelii Celsi De Re Medica, Pars Octava (1592) est opus medicum a Celsus, Aulo Cornelio compositum. In hoc volumine, Celsus de morbis oculorum, aurium, narium, oris, dentium, maxillarum, lingu�����, gutturis, pectoris, ventris, intestinorum,...

Aristotelis Aliorumque Philosophorum Ac Medicorum (1615) est opus quod Aristoteles, philosophus Graecus, scripsit. In hoc libro, Aristoteles varias philosophicas et medicas doctrinas explicat. Inter alia, Aristoteles de anima, de caelo, de generatione et...

Archaeologia Literaria (1790) auctore Ernesti, Ioanne Augusto, est opus quod in disciplinam archaeologiae litterariae introducit. In hoc libro, auctor res antiquas et litterarias explorat, ut originem et progressum earum investiget. Ernesti historiam...

""Esope: Grec Et Latin"" est un livre qui pr�����sente les fables d'Esope, un c�����l�����bre �����crivain grec du VIe si�����cle avant J.-C. Les fables sont pr�����sent�����es en grec et en latin, avec une traduction fran�����aise en bas de page. Le...

"The 'Aaina-e-Lucknow' is written in the Hindustani dialect which was commonly spoken in Lucknow until the fifth and sixth decades of the previous century. This language was crafted on the foundation of colloquial speech and later evolved into a refined...

"Now comes the time of Midwinter's Hag,when holy sun hides her face, night ruleslongest, and stars cut the open sky." The world is magic, and the world is poetry. The poem-spells contained herein draw on myths, fairy tales, and folktales from around the...

COME ONE, COME ALL!!! Here for you is one of the darkest and yet oddly satisfying shows for you to see. Inside this book are over fifty new poems by an author who has literally so much to say. You will laugh. You will cry. Yet at the end of it all you...

La poésie de Taliesin est une flamme qui brille dans la pleine obscurité, une flamme qui tranche brutalement l'ombre : il n'y a pas de zone intermédiaire, de pénombre. Jean MarkaleLe Combat des Arbres est un poème gallois médiéval mythologique, contenu...

FOR children who grew up in France before the Second World War, memorizing the fables of the 17th century poet Jean de La Fontaine was a ritual as familiar as daily snacks of bread and bitter chocolate, placing bulletins under the tree for Santa's...

Le thème principal de ce volume est l'amour possessif et jaloux qu'éprouve le narrateur pour Albertine. Après être rentré de Balbec avec elle, il la laisse habiter dans une pièce de l'appartement de ses parents en leur absence, et ce malgré un avis...

Le narrateur a de plus en plus de soupçons envers Albertine, notamment après avoir vu une femme inconnue lui faire signe près du Casino de Balbec. Proust entre dans une réflexion sur les membres de Gomorrhe dispersés à travers le monde. Toutefois,...

Alors qu'il surveille la cour, le narrateur surprend le baron de Charlus discutant avec Jupien et lui faisant des signes qui l'intriguent. Il finit par entendre leurs ébats ainsi qu'une partie de leur discussion. Cette révélation de l'homosexualité de...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

Before Poe, before Coleridge, before Blake, the otherworld was cast in verse by nameless bards of the ancient Scottish ballad tradition. The ballad is our usual vehicle for the heroic and the tragic, but in the mirky forests of medieval Britain, a...

Naiad Blood, a first collection of poetry by Sarah C. Beckmann, describes the story of a young woman who discovers herself in the sport of rowing-although she grew up near the sea, she falls in love with boats and the water all over again, in a whole new...

A collection of 26 essays delivered at the 2013 yearly meeting of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale on archaeological, philological, and historical topics related to order and chaos in the Ancient Near East.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The book ""Select Metrical Hymns and Homilies of Ephraem Syrus"" is a collection of religious texts written by the Syrian Christian theologian and poet, Ephraem Syrus. Originally published in 1853, this edition includes a selection of hymns and homilies...

Homer's Stories: Simply Told is a book written by the ancient Greek poet, Homer, and published in 1882. The book is a collection of some of Homer's most famous stories, including The Iliad and The Odyssey, which have been retold in a simplified and...

Literary Criticism For Students is a book written by Edward T. McLaughlin and first published in 1893. The book is a comprehensive guide to literary criticism, aimed at students who are studying literature or those who wish to improve their understanding...

Of Ice and Comets' Breath is a poem in the ancient style of Homer that functions as part of an art project called Prius Dominatus that studies the fall of democracy in ancient Greece and explores those causes in thorough and dramatic form.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Pagan Poems is a collection of poetry written by Franklin Henry Giddings and published in 1914. The poems in this collection are inspired by pagan mythology and explore themes of love, nature, and the human condition. Giddings draws from a variety of...

Le livre ""Etudes Litt�����raires sur les �����crivains Fran�����ais de la R�����formation V1 (1854)"" de Pierre Andr����� Sayous est une �����tude approfondie des �����crivains fran�����ais de la R�����formation. Le volume 1 de cette s�����rie comprend...

Die Inschrift Von Jdalion Und Das Kyprische Syllabar (1874) ist ein Buch von Moriz Schmidt, das sich mit der Inschrift von Jdalion und dem kyprischen Syllabar besch�����ftigt. Die Inschrift von Jdalion ist eine antike Inschrift, die auf einer Stele in...

Das Buch ""Die Handschriften des Pricke of Conscience von Richard Rolle de Hampole im Britischen Museum (1888)"" von Andreae und Percy ist eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Handschriften, die den Text ""Pricke of Conscience"" von Richard Rolle de...

The Poetry of the Talmud, written by Simon Sekles and published in 1880, is a comprehensive exploration of the poetic elements found in the Talmud, a central text of Judaism. The author provides a detailed analysis of the various forms of poetry used...

The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz is a collection of poems by the renowned Persian poet Hafiz. Originally published in 1901, this book features a selection of Hafiz's most celebrated works, translated into English by Gertrude Lowthian Bell...

Das Buch ""Orientalia"" von Paul de Lagarde, erschienen 1879, ist eine Sammlung von Aufs�����tzen und Abhandlungen �����ber verschiedene Themen der orientalischen Sprachen und Kulturen. Der Autor, ein bekannter Orientalist und Sprachwissenschaftler des...

The great epic of Western literature.Ten years after the Trojan War and the Fall of Troy, Odysseus, one of the war heroes, has still not returned to his kingdom, Ithaca. Assumed to be dead, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of...

"Personal Poems" is a collection of poetry written by John Greenleaf Whittier, an influential American poet and abolitionist. The book encompasses a range of lyrical and reflective poems that delve into Whittier's personal experiences, emotions, and...

Kat@iyalu#r Uruthiran^ Kan@n@an\a#r was a Tamil poet of the Cankam period. He was a contemporary of Ilantiraiyan, King of Kanchipuram and lived between the later and early years of the third and fourth centuries (A.D.) He composed Pat@t@in\appa#lai and...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

Drama and Lyric is a selection of Greek plays and poetry from early antiquity. It is designed to complement The Greeks: Drama and Lyric, a unit in the Old Western Culture curriculum by Roman Roads Press. Based on the Great Books of western civilization,...

Havamal, or the Ballad of the High One, is the major work of Norse wisdom literature. In one of the key poems in the Poetic Edda we find the counsel of Odin himself. Advice for wanderers, proverbial wisdom, love advice, accounts of Odin's quest after the...

Greek poet Hesiod, who lived sometime during the 8th and 7th century B.C., is regarded as one the most important poets of classical antiquity. What little is known of him largely comes from his own epic poetry, in which he unconventionally inserted...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

De Officiis Libri Tres est opus litterarium a Marco Tullio Cicerone compositum, quod tres libros continet. In hoc libro, auctor praecepta moralia et politica tradit, quae ad vitam recte agendam pertinent. Ciceronis opus est ex editionibus Oliveti et...

""Studier Over Goethes Dramaer"" er en bog skrevet af Johannes Nathanael Paludan-Muller og udgivet i 1884. Bogen er en unders������gelse af Johann Wolfgang von Goethes dramatiske v�����rker og deres betydning i litteraturhistorien. Paludan-Muller...