We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.'
In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geogra ... Read more
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He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden...In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike'
Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caust ... Read more
Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.'
Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by d ... Read more
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the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal'
The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and politica ... Read more
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A major new translation of the greatest ancient historian, Thucydides' brilliant account of the disastrous war waged by Athens against Sparta, with full supporting material making this the most com ... Read more
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The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.'
Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its cont ... Read more
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Psychiatry is now a highly visible activity - care in the community, compulsion, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse mean that few people are not touched by it. Indeed one in four of us will consult a ps ... Read more
those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means'
Mahatma Gandhi was a profound and original thinker as well as one of the most influential figures in th ... Read more
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The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, ... Read more
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Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes
Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor ... Read more
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