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Famous Romans [videorecording] / by Fears, J. Rufus,1945-2012.(CARDINAL)717804; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecturer: J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma.An introduction to Roman history focusing on the lives of great individuals. Examines lives from the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.) through the Empire during the first and second centuries A.D.DVD, region 1.
Subjects: Biographies.; Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Roman classics : notes / by Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.(CARDINAL)196782; Carey, Gary.(CARDINAL)128406; Roberts, James L.,1929-(CARDINAL)513512; Cliffs Notes, Inc.(CARDINAL)755216;
Bibliography: pages 347-363.Early Roman Literature (514-240 B.C.): Plautus -- The Roman Republic (240-84 B.C.): Ennius ; Roman Drama ; Terence -- The Golden Age (83 B.C.-17 A.D.): Cicero ; Julius Caesar ; Lucretius ; Catullus ; Virgil ; Livy ; Tibullus ; Propertius ; Horace ; Ovid -- The Silver Age (14-117 A.D.): Seneca ; Longinus ; Pliny the Elder ; Pliny the Younger ; Josephus ; Martial ; Plutarch ; Tacitus ; Epictetus ; Juvenal ; Suetonius -- The Late Empire (117-395 A.D.): Marcus Aurelius ; Apuleius ; St. Jerome ; St. Augustine.Cliff Notes on Roman Classics is the reference book you need to understand the values and ideas inherent in Latin literature and Roman civilization.
Subjects: Latin literature.; Classical literature.;
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Library of the world's best mystery and detective stories [large print] one hundred and one tales of mystery by famous authors of east and west in six volumes : American, French, Italian ... / by Hawthorne, Julian,1846-1934.(CARDINAL)129378;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Large print books.;
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The arrow and the lamp : the story of Psyche / by Hodges, Margaret,1911-2005.(CARDINAL)342425; Apuleius.Metamorphoses.(CARDINAL)689313; Conover, Chris,illustrator.(CARDINAL)507847; Diamond, Donna,illustrator.(CARDINAL)720648; Diamond, Donna.(CARDINAL)720648;
Relates how Psyche married the god of love, Eros, how she lost him, and the many obstacles she had to overcome before she became an immortal and could join him on Mount Olympus.
Subjects: Aphrodite (Greek deity); Aphrodite (Greek deity); Eros (Greek deity); Eros (Greek deity); Psyche (Greek deity); Psyche (Greek deity); Mythology, Greek.; Mythology, Greek;
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The Oxford anthology of Roman literature / by Knox, Peter E.,editor.; McKeown, J. C.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 632-633).The Roman world of books: The early period: Plautus , The brothers Menaechmus -- Polybius, The histories -- The late republic: Lucretius, On the nature of the universe -- Catullus, Poems -- Cicero, Against Catiline -- In defense of Caelius -- Julius Caesar, The Gallic war -- Sallust, Catiline's conspiracy -- The Augustan age: Virgil, Georgics -- Aeneid -- Propertius, Elegies -- Horace, Odes -- Livy, From the foundation of the city -- Ovid, Amores -- Metamorphoses -- The early empire: Seneca, Medea -- Josephus, Jewish antiquities -- Lucan, Civil war -- Petronius, The Satyricon -- Pliny the Elder, Natural history -- Statius, Thebaid -- Quintilian, The orator's education -- Martial, Epigrams -- The high empire: Tacitus, Annals -- Pliny the Younger, Epistles -- Suetonius, Life of Nero -- Plutarch, Antony -- Juvenal, Satires -- Apuleius, Metamorposes -- Lucian, True history -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.Though the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era's literature in English. 'The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature' provides a general introduction to the literature of the Roman empire at its zenith, between the second century BC and the second century AD. Two features of this extraordinarily fertile period in literary achievement as evidenced by this anthology are immediately and repeatedly clear: how similar the Romans' view of the world was to our own and, perhaps even more obviously, how different it was. Most of the authors included in the anthology wrote in Latin, but as the anthology moves forward in time, relevant Greek texts that reflect the cultural diversity of Roman literary life are also included, something no other such anthology has done in the past.
Subjects: Latin literature; Latin literature;
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A gathering of ghosts; a treasury: Field [and others] by Lewis, Gogo,compiler.(CARDINAL)504255; Manley, Seon.(CARDINAL)142334;
Acknowledgments (bibliographical: p. [5])--Preface, by S. M. and G. L.--The panelled room, by A. Derleth.--The inexperienced ghost, by H. G. Wells.--The lamp, by A. Christie.--Cool air, by H. P. Lovecraft.--The haunted house, by Pliny the Younger.--Quite immaterial, by A. Woollcott.--The tapestried chamber, by Sir W. Scott.--Ghostly verse: The ghost's song (anonymous). Dibdin's ghost, by E. Field. Haunted houses, by H. W. Longfellow. The phantom-wooer, by T. L. Beddoes. The only ghost I ever saw, by E. Dickinson. To an importunate ghost, by J. W. Riley. As if a phantom caress'd me, by W. Whitman. The composite ghost, by M. C. Smith.--The dream, by Apuleius.--The screaming scull, by F. M. Crawford.--The ghost of Hamlet's father, by W. Shakespeare.--Dracula's guest, by B. Stoker.--The transferred ghost, by F. R. Stockton.--Ghosts in literature, by S. Manley and G. Lewis.
Subjects: Literature.; Ghosts;
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A gathering of ghosts; a treasury: Field [and others] by Manley, Seon,compiler.; Lewis, Gogo,compiler.;
Acknowledgments (bibliographical: p. [5])--Preface, by S. M. and G. L.--The panelled room, by A. Derleth.--The inexperienced ghost, by H. G. Wells.--The lamp, by A. Christie.--Cool air, by H. P. Lovecraft.--The haunted house, by Pliny the Younger.--Quite immaterial, by A. Woollcott.--The tapestried chamber, by Sir W. Scott.--Ghostly verse: The ghost's song (anonymous). Dibdin's ghost, by E. Field. Haunted houses, by H. W. Longfellow. The phantom-wooer, by T. L. Beddoes. The only ghost I ever saw, by E. Dickinson. To an importunate ghost, by J. W. Riley. As if a phantom caress'd me, by W. Whitman. The composite ghost, by M. C. Smith.--The dream, by Apuleius.--The screaming scull, by F. M. Crawford.--The ghost of Hamlet's father, by W. Shakespeare.--Dracula's guest, by B. Stoker.--The transferred ghost, by F. R. Stockton.--Ghosts in literature, by S. Manley and G. Lewis.
Subjects: Literature.; Ghosts;
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An illustrated history of the herbals / by Anderson, Frank J.(Frank Joseph),1912-1994.(CARDINAL)138910;
Bibliography: pages 251-258.1. The De Materia Medica of Dioscorides -- 2. Pliny's Naturalis Historia -- 3. The Herbal of Apuleius -- 4. The De Viribus Herbarum of Macer Floridus -- 5. Mesue the Younger, Opera Quae Extant Omnia; Serapion the Younger, Liber Serapionis Aggregatus -- 6. The Circa Instans of Matthaeus Platearus -- 7. The Physica of Hildegarde of Bingen -- 8. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum -- 9. The Opus Ruralium Commodorum of Pietro Crescenzi -- 10. Conrad von Megen berg's Buch Der Natur -- 11. Peter Schoeffer's Herbarius Latinus -- 12. Peter Schoeffer's Der Gart -- 13. Arbolayre, or Le Grant Herbier -- 14. Jacob Meydenbach's Hortus Sanitatis -- 15. Das Buch zu Distillieren of Hieronymus Brunschwig -- 16. The Herbarum Vivae Eicones of Otto Brunfels -- 17. The Kreuter Buch of Hieronymus Bock -- 18. The De Historia Stirpium of Leonhart Fuchs -- 19. The New Herball of William Turner -- 20. The Kreutterbuch of Adam Lonitzer -- 21. The Commentarii of Pier Andrea Mattioli -- 22. The Cruydeboech of Rembert Dodoens -- 23. Thurneisser's Historia -- 24. The Herbario Nuovo of Castore Durante -- 25. The Phytognomonica of Giambattista Porta -- 26. The Coloquios of Garcia da Orta, and the Dos Libros of Nicolas Monardes -- 27. The Phytobasanos of Fabio Colonna -- 28. The Herball of John Gerard -- 29. Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum -- 30. The Rerum Medicarum of Francisco Hernandex. -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.An "herbal" by definition is a book that is descriptive of plants and the term did not come into use until the sixteenth century. The production of herbals is closely connected to the history of early printing and offers the finest examples of this art and craft. However, the earliest records of ancient Egypt, Sumer and China all reflect a tradition of works of botanicals and their medicinal properties long before printing. The author's survey begins with a work called De materia medica written in the first century which is extant and, as the final authority on pharmacy for 1500 years, is the most important herbal ever written.
Subjects: Botany, Medical; Herbs; Botanical literature; Botany; Medicinal plants.;
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Great authors of the western literary tradition [sound recording]. by Heffernan, James A. W.(CARDINAL)513813; Heinzelman, Susan Sage.(CARDINAL)382043; Herzman, Ronald B.(CARDINAL)521832; Noble, Thomas F. X.(CARDINAL)733739; Vandiver, Elizabeth,1956-(CARDINAL)360664; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Part 1. Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations. Foundations ; The epic of Gilgamesh ; Genesis and the documentary hypothesis ; The Deuteronomistic history ; Isaiah ; Job ; Homer, the Iliad ; Homer, the Odyssey ; Sappho and Pindar ; Aeschylus ; Sophocles ; Euripides -- Part 2. Literature of the classical world. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Aristophanes ; Plato ; Menander and Hellenistic literature ; Catullus and Horace ; Virgil ; Ovid ; Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch ; Petronius and Apuleius ; The Gospels ; Augustine -- Part 3. Literature of the Middle Ages. Beowulf ; The song of Roland ; El Cid ; Tristan and Isolt ; The romance of the rose ; Dante Alighieri, life and works ; Dante Alighieri, The divine comedy ; Petrarch ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Sir Gawain and the green knight -- Geoffrey Chaucer, life and works -- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury tales -- Part 4. Literature of the Renaissance. Christine de Pizan ; Erasmus ; Thomas More ; Michel de Montaigne ; François Rabelais ; Christopher Marlowe ; William Shakespeare, The merchant of Venice ; William Shakespeare, Hamlet ; Lope de Vega ; Miguel de Cervantes ; John Milton ; Blaise Pascal -- Part 5. Neoclassic literature and the 18th century. Molière ; Jean Racine ; Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz ; Daniel Defoe ; Alexander Pope ; Jonathan Swift ; Voltaire ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Samuel Johnson ; Denis Diderot ; William Blake ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Part 6. Literature of the 19th century. William Wordsworth ; Jane Austen ; Stendhal ; Herman Melville ; Walt Whitman ; Gustave Flaubert ; Charles Dickens ; Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Leo Tolstoy ; Mark Twain ; Thomas Hardy ; Oscar Wilde -- Part 7. Modern literature. Henry James ; Joseph Conrad ; William Butler Yeats ; Marcel Proust ; James Joyce ; Franz Kafka ; Virginia Woolf ; William Faulkner ; Bertolt Brecht ; Albert Camus ; Samuel Beckett ; Conclusion.Lecturers: James A.W. Heffernan, Susan Sage Heinzelman, Ronald B. Herzman, Thomas F. X. Noble, Elizabeth Vandiver.Features some of the finest college professors in America, lecturing on literature written from biblical times to the modern era.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Lectures.; Sound recordings.; Speeches.; American literature; English literature; European literature; Literature;
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How to be well read : a guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities / by Sutherland, John,1938-Author(DLC)n 82156581 ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it's a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces he gives us his own very personal take on the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written ? the perfect reading list for the would-be literary expert. His taste is impressively eclectic. An appreciation of Apuleius's The Golden Ass--arguably the first-ever novel--is followed by a consideration of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. The Handmaid's Tale is followed by Hangover Square, Jane Eyre by Jaws. There are imposing Victorian novels, entertaining contemporary thrillers and everything in between, from dystopian works to romance. The flavour of each is brilliantly evoked and its relative merits or demerits assessed. At the same time, John Sutherland shows how the work fits into a broader context ? whether that of the author's life or of other books from the same genre or period. And he offers endless snippets of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the Nazis banned Bambi or that William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying on an upturned wheelbarrow; that Voltaire completed Candide in three days, or that Anna Sewell was paid ℗£20 for Black Beauty? Encyclopedic and entertaining by turns, this is a wonderful dip-in book, whose opinions will inform and on occasion, no doubt, infuriate. It is also effectively a history of the novel in 500 or so bite-sized pieces.
Subjects: Fiction; Books and reading.; Fiction;
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