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Versio Latina (Homeri Odyssea) Liber VI

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Homer

The Versio Latina, or Latin translation of the works of Homer, has existed since the 14th century, but was first printed, under the name of …

Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

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Walter Pater

Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboratio…

Book III: Paris challenges Menelaus

In The Iliad

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Homer, trans. Butler and Homer

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Chapter 1

In Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East

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Alexander Kinglake and Alexander William Kinglake

A classic of Victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in…

2-01 Part Second - Chapter 1

In Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

X - Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…