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Sophocles: The Theban PlaysPenguin Classics Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty. The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal

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his libertine nephew

How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interests—Plutarch’s essay On Dysopia or How to Resist Pressure and Prudentius’s poetic allegory Psychomachia or How to Slay Your Demons

μέχρι που γέμισε και πάλι από το φως και τη χαρά της ζωής

στη θέση 8

How many women read the great histories of Herodotus and Thucydides

and generous hosts are among the diverse characters who populate his verses

Edicts and Orders

Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers

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and the subject-matter deals with those aspects of the subject as seem likely to be met with at this stage

It is intended to help advanced students and others interested in Roman literature to comprehend the grammar and appreciate the stylistic nuances of Cicero's Latin

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