The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
Full of intriguing facts and diverting stories―the ideal introduction to the myths and tales that lie at the heart of Western culture. Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse? The myths of ancient Greece and Rome can seem bewilderingly complex, yet they are so much a part of modern life and discourse that most of us know fragments of them. This comprehensive companion takes these fragments and weaves them into an accessible and enjoyable narrative, guiding the reader through the basic stories of classical myth.
A Presocratics Reader - Selected Fragments and Testimonia
Ideal for a two-to-three week introduction to the Presocratics and Sophists, this volume offers a selection of the extant remains of early Greek philosophical thought on cosmology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, together with unobtrusive, minimally interpretive editorial material: an introduction, brief headnotes, maps, and a concordance.
In the future there is no want, no war, no disease or ill-timed death. The world is a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net fragments and goes to war, leaving people who have never known a moment of want or pain wondering how to survive.
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Learn new words with small video fragments
New service for learning English words using video fragments and subtitles - All words are sorted by popularity of usage, each word has it's translation, video part and subtitles are used to show how the word is used. Some words have the audio pronunciation of a word separately from it's video. So this is pretty easy way to expand you active english words list.
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