The University of Adelaide. The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”, but includes all manner of things that took the Editor's fancy. all of our eBooks are available in the ePub format.
On January 31, 1797, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert was born. Even though his many symphonies, operas and piano pieces were not highly appreciated during his lifetime, he was posthumously praised as one of the most important composers of the Romantic era in music.
On October 19, 1806, the famous German writer, artist, and politician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, finally got married with his mistress Christiane Vulpius after having lived together quasi-maritally since 1788, to the scandal of the ladies of Weimar and the vexation of Bettina von Arnim-Brentano.
An accomplished poet, philosopher, rhetorician, and humorist, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) was also the greatest forensic orator Rome ever produced. But to Cicero, service to the res publica (literally, "the public affair") was a Roman citizen's highest duty. At age 26 (in 80 BC), he successfully defended a man prosecuted unjustly by a crony of the bloodthirsty dictator Sulla. In 69 BC, he brought to order the corrupt Sicilian governor Verres. As consul in 63 BC, he put down the Catilinarian conspiracy; later, he was sent into exile for refusing to join the First Triumvirate. Late in life, he led the Senate's gallant but unsuccessful battle against Antony, for which he paid with his life on 7 December 43 BC.
"...Links that will take you to passages from over 125 women writers. The entries are on women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700, some or all of which has been translated into modern English. Each entry will tell you about the print sources from which the translated passages are taken; it will also tell you of useful secondary sources and Internet sites, when those are available."
The Animation Archive is a project of International Animated Film Society: ASIFA-Hollywood, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. We are building a museum, library and digital archive for the benefit of animation professionals, cartoonists, designers, students and the general public. Our database of images, biographic info and films contains thousands of entries- animated cartoons, artwork, and filmographies. Contributions and volunteers are needed to make the dream a reality.
The La Trobe Journal This website is a full-text archive of the La Trobe Journal, a scholarly publication produced by the State Library of Victoria Foundation.
A lost play by the famed Greek playwright and satirist Euripides has surfaced and is being staged in Ephesus. The tragedy, written 2400 years ago, tells the story of Phaethon, Helios' reckless son. An all-star cast & crew from modern Greek theatre will produce the play for a festival.
Sara Hashash writes in the Sunday Times:With a team of 12 archeologists and 70 excavators, Zahi Hawass, 60, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has started searching for the entrance to her tomb.And after a breakthrough two weeks ago he hopes to find her lover, the Roman general Mark Antony, sharing her last resting place at the site of a temple, the Taposiris Magna, 28 miles west of Alexandria. Hawass has discovered a 400 ft tunnel beneath the temple containing clues that the supposedly beautiful queen may lie beneath. “We’ve found tunnels with statues of Cleopatra and many coins bearing her face, things you wouldn’t expect in a typical temple,” he said.A fortnight ago Hawass’s team discovered a bust of Mark Antony, the Roman general who became Cleopatra’s lover and had three children with her before their ambitions for an Egyptian empire brought them into conflict with Rome. They committed suicide — he with his sword, she reputedly by clutching an asp to her breast — after being defeated by Octavian in the battle of Actium in 31 BC. “Our theory is that both Cleopatra and Mark Antony are buried here,” said Hawass.
Latin, classical, medieval and modern; texts, symposia, grammatical aids, Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Res Gestae of Augustus Divus, Erasmus, Roman Numbers, Latin prepositions, Verbs Conjugated, Philobiblon of Richard de Bury in Latin, M. Valeri Martialis Epigrammaton Liber Undecimus
This is a portal to the future of Classics education and a repository of practical tools, for educators and other classicists, to enhance the use of computer technology in Classics education.
This is a portal to the future of Classics education and a repository of practical tools, for educators and other classicists, to enhance the use of computer technology in Classics education.