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Aristotle, VII, Meteorologica
Aristotle
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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at ...
The Deipnosophists, VII, Books 14.653b-15
Athenaeus
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Athenaeus (AD ca. 170-ca. 230), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, lived in Rome and wrote a historical work now lost. Of the fifteen books of his surviving "Deipnosophists ('Sophists at Dinner'), the first two and parts of the third, eleventh, and fifte ...
The Language of Qohelet in Its Context : Essays in Honour of Prof. A. Schoors on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
A. Berlejung
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Mahabharata Book Eight : Karna
Adam Bowles
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"published in the geek chic format" - Bookforum"The Book of Karna" relates the events of the two dramatic days after the defeat of the great warriors and generals Bhishma and Drona, in which Karna - great hero and the eldest Pandava - leads the Kaura ...
The Greek Anthology : The Amatory Epigrams
M. S. Buck
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The period when the first collections of Greek Epigrams were made, may be noted as about three hundred B.C. It is hoped that the epigrams as here given may still reveal a part of their original clarity and beauty, presenting these souvenirs of the li ...
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution : A Commentary on de Rerum Natura, Book Five, Lines 772-1104
Gordon Campbell
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Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory (first century BC) is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It is a mechanistic theory that does away with the need for any divine de ...
On Agriculture
Cato
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Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234-149 BC) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was the first important writer in Latin prose. His speeches, works on jurisprudence and the art of war, his precepts to his son on various subjects, and his great histo ...