The Fall Of Troy Review
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Tales of Troy: Ulysses The Sacker of Cities
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Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Dealings With The Dead: By A Sexton Of The Old School (Volume 1)
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Endurance: Built to Stand the Storm
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Friday, May 27, 2011
A Victorian anthology, 1837-1895;: selections illustrating the editor's critical review of British poetry in the reign of Victoria.
A Victorian anthology, 1837-1895;: selections illustrating the editor's critical review of British poetry in the reign of Victoria. Review
A Victorian anthology, 1837-1895;: selections illustrating the editor's critical review of British poetry in the reign of Victoria. Feature
Originally published in 1912. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume XXIV
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Historical Traditionary & Imaginative With a Glossary.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Sir Thomas Browne's Work, Volume III
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
The Fall of Troy (Forgotten Books)
The Fall of Troy (Forgotten Books) Review
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In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology, and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, while the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the war were told in a cycle of epic poems, which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets like Virgil and Ovid. (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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Quintus Smyrnaeus (or Quintus of Smyrna) was a Greek epic poet whose Posthomerica, following "after Homer" continues the narration of the Trojan War.
The dates of Smyrnaeus's life are controversial, but they are traditionally placed in the latter part of the fourth century. "His date is approximately settled by two passages in the poem, viz. vi. 531 sqq., in which occurs an illustration drawn from the man-and-beast fights of the amphitheatre, which were suppressed by Theodosius I. (379-395 A.D.); and xiii. 335 sqq., which contains a prophecy, the special particularity of which, it is maintained by Koechly, limits its applicability to the middle of the fourth century A.D."
Some scholars suggest an earlier date in the 3rd or even the 2nd century, arguing that his Posthomerica shows an influence from the "Second Sophistic", the school of Greek orators who flourished in the first and second centuries. According to his own account (xii. 310), he began composing poetry in his early youth while tending sheep near Smyrna (pr
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
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Dealings with the Dead Vol. 1
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