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Deianira, moglie di Eracle, il più grande degli eroi, lotta con i propri sentimenti di ansia e gelosia: quando infatti Eracle torna da una pericolosa impresa, la sua venuta suscita in lei dubbi e paure.Deianira, volendo recuperare il suo affetto, non esita a ricorrere a...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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Filottete, eroe abbandonato dai suoi compagni sull'isola di Lemno, è accusato di aver portato sfortuna alla campagna militare e vive in solitudine, lottando contro il dolore e la disperazione. Il destino della guerra di Troia si intreccia però indissolubilmente al suo...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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"Elettra" di Sofocle è una tragedia che esplora i temi della vendetta, della giustizia e della complessità dei legami familiari. Al centro della narrazione c'è Elettra, figlia di Agamennone, che vive in un perpetuo stato di dolore e desiderio di giustizia dopo...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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Sofocle è considerato uno dei più importanti tragediografi dell'antica Grecia. Il suo impatto è stato decisivo tanto sul teatro mondiale, quanto sulla cultura occidentale in senso lato. Le sue tragedie più celebri, "Edipo re" e "Antigone" su tutte, non solo affrontano...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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Fin dall'antichità l'"Edipo re" di Sofocle è stata considerata la tragedia per eccellenza. C'è in essa l'ansia della conoscenza e, al contempo, la coscienza di quanto difficile sia conoscere. Anche Edipo, che pure ha risolto l'enigma della Sfinge, deve spingersi oltre i...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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Nel 431 a.C. la guerra fra Atene e Sparta segnò un tornante della Storia dopo il quale la Grecia non sarebbe mai più stata la stessa. La lotta sanguinosa e trentennale fra le due poleis rappresentò il crepuscolo della civiltà ellenica. Tucidide, vittima e spettatore di...
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Cactus
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2024-07-21
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Classico inarrivabile della storiografia, Storia di Roma di Theodor Mommsen ha dato forma all'interpretazione storica dell'intera vicenda romana, dalle origini a Cesare. Comparso originariamente in tre volumi fra il 1854 e il 1856, l'opus magnum di Mommsen esponeva la...
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Cactus
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2024-07-20
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"The Homeric Hymns: Ancient Literature" invites readers on a timeless journey through the mythological tapestry of ancient Greece. This collection of the Homeric Hymns, attributed to the legendary poet Homer, presents a vivid and poetic exploration of the pantheon of...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2023-09-19
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"The Complete Works of Homer" is a meticulously curated anthology that brings together the iconic masterpieces of ancient Greek literature –"The Iliad,""The Odyssey," and"The Homeric Hymns" – accompanied by captivating illustrations. Homer's epic narratives are renowned...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2023-09-04
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The Roman is a superb reconstruction of a time long ago, the Roman world in the time of the Emperors Claudius & Nero. It's the story of Minutus, of noble birth, who serves the government and travels widely through the Empire, from his home in Antioch to the seat of...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2014-07-22
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Life Writing
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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2011-03-08
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Studies in Christianity and Judaism
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Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections....
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-30
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Studies in Christianity and Judaism
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Who has not seen a picture of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, massive in size but deceptively simple in shape, and not wondered how that shape was determined? Starting in the late eighteenth century, eleven main theories were proposed to explain the shape of the Great...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2009-10-21
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Art historian Dr. Illig recognized, that 297 years between 614 and 911 AD - in Europe - are invented.
An error occurred when the calendar was changed in 1582.
That would mean: Charlesmagne never existed.
I thought years 500 - 800 AD were illogical.
Is the following...
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Books on Demand
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2021-09-06
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C. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental notices in the following History, we learn that he was born towards the close...
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Books on Demand
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2019-08-12
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Prisons as places of detention are very ancient institutions. As soon as men had learned the way to build, in stone, as in Egypt, or with bricks, as in Mesopotamia, when kings had many-towered fortresses, and the great barons castles on the crags, there would be cells...
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Books on Demand
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2019-07-19
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"Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose you take this shooting-jacket of mine along; it's just the thing-take it, it will save the expense of another. You see, it's quite warm; fine long skirts, stout horn buttons, and plenty of pockets." Out of the goodness...
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Books on Demand
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2019-06-17
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A picture of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread. It has to represent a very hideous, though a very great, age; one of those critical and cardinal...
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Books on Demand
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2019-06-06
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