Author: Henry Purcell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Plutarch's classic biography of Cleomenes, translated by John Dryden.
Cleomenes (Another Leaf Press)
Author: Henry Purcell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Plutarch's classic biography of Cleomenes, translated by John Dryden.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Plutarch's classic biography of Cleomenes, translated by John Dryden.
Romanitas
Author: Sophia McDougall
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575110368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In a parallel modern world, the Roman Empire stretches from India in the East to the Great Wall of Terranova in the West. A runaway slave girl with a strange gift sets out to rescue her brother and seize her freedom, while the young heir to the Imperial throne discovers a plot against his life. For all three, the only way to survive may shake the Empire to its roots. A fast-moving, compelling story, brilliantly imagined - CONN IGGULDEN [A] hugely imaginative debut - DAILY MIRROR A thoroughly good read ... vividly imagined ... elegant, lively writing - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575110368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In a parallel modern world, the Roman Empire stretches from India in the East to the Great Wall of Terranova in the West. A runaway slave girl with a strange gift sets out to rescue her brother and seize her freedom, while the young heir to the Imperial throne discovers a plot against his life. For all three, the only way to survive may shake the Empire to its roots. A fast-moving, compelling story, brilliantly imagined - CONN IGGULDEN [A] hugely imaginative debut - DAILY MIRROR A thoroughly good read ... vividly imagined ... elegant, lively writing - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520915127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of Love Triumphant, the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. The Secular Masque, Dryden's principal contribution to The Pilgrim by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next fifty years, and in anthologies up to the present.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520915127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of Love Triumphant, the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. The Secular Masque, Dryden's principal contribution to The Pilgrim by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next fifty years, and in anthologies up to the present.
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Warfare
Author: Iain Spence
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810866129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how warfare evolved during the centuries in ancient Greece from rudimentary, non-sophisticated strategies and weaponry to more complex arsenals and tactics. Includes entries on many aspects of war for which ancient Greece is historically recognized, as well as profiles of famous military and civilian leaders, including Alcibiades and Alexander the Great, who were involved in the battles on both land and sea. An extensive bibliography suggests further reading of interest. No other general work on ancient Greek warfare covers the entire period included in this volume.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810866129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how warfare evolved during the centuries in ancient Greece from rudimentary, non-sophisticated strategies and weaponry to more complex arsenals and tactics. Includes entries on many aspects of war for which ancient Greece is historically recognized, as well as profiles of famous military and civilian leaders, including Alcibiades and Alexander the Great, who were involved in the battles on both land and sea. An extensive bibliography suggests further reading of interest. No other general work on ancient Greek warfare covers the entire period included in this volume.
An analysis of Herodotus, by the author of Analysis of Aristotle's Ethics and Rhetoric
Author: Robert Bateman Paul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Includes a chronological table of the principal events recorded by Herodotus and a separately paginated supplement entitled Questions on Herodotus.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Includes a chronological table of the principal events recorded by Herodotus and a separately paginated supplement entitled Questions on Herodotus.
Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reading Herodotus
Author: Elizabeth Irwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139466747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139466747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090530X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090530X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.
Catalogue
Author: Dobell, P.J. & A.E., booksellers, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of Edmund Gosse
Author: Edmund Gosse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description