As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways.' Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of ... 続きを読む
Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contempora ... 続きを読む
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern r ... 続きを読む
A fascinating guide to our language and its history.
The principal authority on the origin and development of English words.
Where did the words bungalow and assassin&nb ... 続きを読む
Thomas Heywood; Thomas Dekker; William Rowley; John Ford; Martin Wiggins
ページ
400 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
129 x 195 mm
刊行日
2008年05月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller
In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
