Thursday, 24 November 2011
TUMULTUS ET REBELLIO
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Introduction. The following three extracts on the subject of "riot and rebellion" are translations of texts taken from the ...
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011
THE DRUIDS: INFORMATION ABOUT THEM OBTAINED FROM FAMOUS LATIN AUTHORS
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Introduction. The passages below are taken from abridged texts of three Latin authors published in the "Cambridge Latin Authority...
NEW TESTAMENT: ACTS OF THE APOSTLES: AN EXTRACT
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Introduction. Chapter 17, verses 16-34. St. Paul in Athens. The "Acts of the Apostles" forms the second part of the literar...
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
PLUTARCH: EXTRACT FROM "ON THE DECLINE OF ORACLES"
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Introduction. Sections 419B-420A (or 17-18). Great Pan is dead. This dialogue is set in Delphi in about 83 A.D. A group of learned me...
THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA: EXTRACT FROM PLUTARCH'S "LIFE OF ANTONY"
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Introduction. Plutarch (c. 46-120 A.D.), biographer, historian and moral philosopher, was born in Boeotia in central Greece, studied at A...
Monday, 21 November 2011
APULEIUS: "THE WITCHES OF THESSALY" : AN EXTRACT FROM "THE GOLDEN ASS"
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Introduction. Lucius Apuleius was born in c 124 A.D. in Madaura, a town in North Africa. He was educated first at Carthage and afterwards...
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Sunday, 20 November 2011
MENANDER: EXTRACT FROM "PERIKEIROMENE" (THE GIRL WITH THE CUT HAIR)
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Introduction. Menander (342-292 B.C.) was the leading writer of Athenian New Comedy, a genre which replaced the world of Aristophanes...
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