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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 : Latin text with introduction, commentary, gl…
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge t…
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- 9781783740840
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- xii, 221p. ; ill.
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- 873.01 GIL o
Cicero, "Philippic" 2, 44-50, 78-92, 100-119 : latin text, study aids with vo…
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony …
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- 9781783745913
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- 477p. ; ill.
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- 875.01 GIL c
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