Der Blick von Rom über die AlpenTrostlos, schaurig, scheußlich und darüber hinaus noch ziemlich windig: So beschrieb der Römer Tacitus vor bald 2000 Jahren Germanien.
Andromache Euripides - Clinging to the altar of the sea-goddess Thetis for sanctuary, Andromache delivers the play's prologue, in which she mourns her misfortune (the destruction of Troy, the deaths of her husband Hector and their child Astyanax, and her enslavement to Neoptolemos) and her persecution at the hands of Neoptolemos' new wife Hermione and her father Menelaus, King of Sparta.
Heracles Euripides - Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with effective human pathos.
Viel Lärmen um Nichts Eichendorff - In dieser Romanze um den Prinzen Romano, der mit seinem Widersacher Herrn Publikum um die Hand der schönen Gräfin Aurora buhlt, erstehen auch Gestalten wie Graf Leontin und der Dichter Faber aus der Novelle Ahnung und Gegenwart auf zu neuem Leben und spielen ihre Rollen.
The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius - This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Golden Ass (The Metamorphoses of Apuleius)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Die Ilias Homer - Tragische menschliche Verirrung und Schuld, und die dennoch immer noch mögliche humane Lösung sind das spezifische Thema des ersten Kunstwerkes der Weltliteratur.
Written in the twilight of the Roman Republic, the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus offers a delicious insight into the passions and gossip of high Roman society.
One of the best written and most amusing treatises of antiquity is Lucian's True History, forming a rather long narrative in two books, which suggested Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Rabelais's Voyage of Pantagruel and Cyrano de Bergerac's Journey to the Moon.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role.
Alexander III of Macedon Alexandros III ho Makedn; commonly known as Alexander the Grea was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon[a] and a member of the Argead dynasty.
Ein klassischer Mysterythriller von Italiens Bestseller-Autor Valerio ManfrediBei Ausgrabungsarbeiten in der Nähe von Rom werden sieben Statuen gefunden, darunter vermutlich auch das mythenumwobene hölzerne Standbild der Athene.
Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Ph nician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae, The Heraclidae, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris.
The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens' tragedians, and allegedly recovering from the disastrous Battle of Arginusae.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek tragedies, 'King Oedipus' (or 'Oedipus Rex') is the first play in the Oedipus trilogy (followed by 'Oedipus at Colonus' and then 'Antigone').
