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The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and StormThe Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm My days and strength have lately been much broken; and I never more felt the insufficiency of both than in preparing for the press the following desultory memoranda...
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Old Greek StoriesOld Greek StoriesPerhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant...
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Theocritus, translated into English VerseTheocritus, translated into English VerseI had intended translating all or nearly all these Idylls into blank verse, as the natural equivalent of Greek or of Latin hexameters; only deviating into rhyme where occasion seemed to demand it. But I found that other metres had...
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Aesop's Fables a new translationAesop's Fables; a new translationAesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not...
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The Extant Odes of PindarThe Extant Odes of Pindar - Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest MyersProbably no poet of importance equal or approaching to that of Pindar finds so few and so infrequent readers. The causes are not far to seek: in the first and...
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Old Greek Folk Stories Told AnewOld Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Hawthorne, in his Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales, has told, in a manner familiar to multitudes of American children and to many more who once were children, a dozen of the old Greek folk stories. They have served to...
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The Miraculous PitcherThe Miraculous Pitcher - (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys") CONTENTS: THE HILLSIDE.Introductory to The Miraculous Pitcher" THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER THE HILLSIDEAfter the Story And when, and where, do you think we find the children next? No longer in the winter-time, but in...
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The Three Golden ApplesThe Three Golden Apples - (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys") CONTENTS: TANGLEWOOD FIRESIDEIntroductory to The Three Golden Apples" THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES TANGLEWOOD FIRESIDEAfter the Story The snow-storm lasted another day; but what became of it afterwards, I cannot possibly imagine. At...
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The Paradise of ChildrenThe Paradise of Children - (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys") CONTENTS: TANGLEWOOD PLAY-ROOMIntroductory to The Paradise of Children" THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN TANGLEWOOD PLAY-ROOMAfter the Story The golden days of October passed away, as so many other Octobers have, and brown November...
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The Gorgon's HeadThe Gorgon's Head - (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys") The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public,...
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Aesop's FablesAesop's Fables ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 8809 Author: Aesop, 620? BCE-564? BCE Release Date: Sep 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English
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Four Plays of AeschylusFour Plays of Aeschylus The surviving dramas of Aeschylus are seven in number, though he is believed to have written nearly a hundred during his life of sixty-nine years, from 525 B.C. to 456 B.C. That he fought at Marathon in 490, and at...
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Hippolytus The BacchaeHippolytus; The Bacchae Euripides, the youngest of the trio of great Greek tragedians was born at Salamis in 480 B.C., on the day when the Greeks won their momentous naval victory there over the fleet of the Persians. The precise social status of his...
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Homer and His AgeHomer and His Age In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been...
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The IliadThe Iliad In the spring of 1862 I was induced, at the request of some personal friends, to print, for private circulation only, a small volume of Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern, in which was included the first Book of the Iliad. The...
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The IliadThe Iliad Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions as to particular excellences; but his invention remains yet unrivalled. Nor is...
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Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English ProseTheocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English ProseTheocritus, the Chian. But there is another Theocritus, the son of Praxagoras and Philinna (see Epigram XXIII), or as some say of Simichus. (This is plainly derived from the assumed name Simichidas in Idyl VII.) He was...
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A History of Greek ArtA History of Greek Art - With an Introductory Chapter on Art in Egypt and MesopotamiaThe art of any artistically gifted people may be studied with various purposes and in various ways. One man, being himself an artist, may seek inspiration or guidance for...
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Greek Studies: a Series of EssaysGreek Studies: a Series of Essays[1] THE present volume consists of a collection of essays by the late Mr. Pater, all of which have already been given to the public in various Magazines; and it is owing to the kindness of the several proprietors...
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The OdysseyThe Odyssey Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education,...
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