Carrying the Homeric world into our own, Logue's language is at once musical, profoundly tender, and frighteningly graphic. With cinematic speed, disarming confidence, and lyrical care, Logue gives us a reading of classic literature that makes unquestionably clear its relevance to our own time.

    This guide expands and explains important grammatical concepts that the Wheelock text presents too briefly for many contemporary students.-- Fuller grammatical explanationsTo aid comprehension-- Useful, short exercises (with answer key)To clear up confusion fast-- Additional etymological informationTo help students memorize-- Companion websiteFor pronunciation help and downloadable drill sheets, vocabulary lists, and more!The Guide's style is casual, to calm and reassure the struggling or intimidated student. Points are repeated so that chapters can be used independently of one another, on an as-needed basis.Grote's Guide was designed for use with the Wheelock text, but has been sucessfully used with othe Latin texts.The Guide is an an excellent resource for-- Homeschoolers: students and instructors!-- Autodidacts-- Reviewing beginning Latin-- Reviewing before an exam

    This revisionist study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized, and why they were later either eliminated or transformed by a new Christian Roman elite of men now thought of as the founding fathers.

    This panoramic view of the political, economic, military, & social institutions of Rome traces its history to the death of Constantine.

    Each play shows the aftermath of war from a different standpoint. Women of Troy is set amongst a group of captives waiting to be shipped from Troy as slaves - Queen Hecuba is their comforter but in Hecuba she is driven to the edge of insanity by her own great personal loss. Helen takes place seven years after the end of the War. In Egypt - treated as a backwater, far from 'real' events - Helen waits anxiously for her husband Menelaus to rescue her. One of the greatest and most influential of the Greek tragedians, Euripides, is said to have produced 92 plays, the first of which appeared in 455BC.

    The nature of that achievement, though, looks increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as literacy, orality, rhetoric, narrative technique, and the invention of tradition. In this book, eight ancient historians consider both the achievement and the problems involved in the study of the Greek historians. These essays reflect the best and most recent scholarship on the subject.

    Important book. Also a deep study of the astral significance of Greek myths and heroes. The book deals with Astrology, Geomancy, Mystery Religions, Cosmic Center, Constellations, and much more. Also deals with Eleusis mysteries.