Found 1,109 results for "Latin fiction, history and criticism"
Utopia
by Thomas More
THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...
Мы
by Евгений Иванович Замятин
I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...
Ὀδύσσεια
by Ὅμηρος
house. As it is, the effect of Zeus' words, judicious though they are, cannot be very great.
Ἰλιάς
by Ὅμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
BENT UPON SEEING THE WORLD - I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family. My father designed me f...
Foundational fictions
by Doris Sommer
When Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortazar, among others, apparently burst onto...
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Plato
Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.
Writing the Apocalypse
by Lois Parkinson Zamora
AS THE YEAR 2000 APPROACHES and we become accustomed to thinking of crisis in global terms, references to apocalypse see...
Latin Fiction
by Heinz Hofmann
Tacitus (Annals 16.17-20) tells us a brief but famous history of a courtier of Nero who held a proconsulship in Bithynia...
