Books
4 results found| Title | Authors | Description | OpenBook ID | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Vitae parallelae | Plutarch | A Collection of potted biographies of Greek and Roman nobles. The biographies are arranged in pairs, one Greek and one Roman, ostensibly showing the similarities between them. | OL15436806W |
|
The Horse Story Megapack | Katherine Mayo,F. Anstey,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,Bret Harte,Henry Lawson,William Henry Harrison Murray,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Butler Yeats,Adam White,Amy Steedman,William Dean Howells,Jonathan Swift,Anna Sewell,Thomas Bingley,John Hay,Robert Reginald,Sewell Ford,George Bird Grinnell,Voltaire,Djuna Barnes,H. Beam Piper,A. B. Paterson,Plutarch,Eugene Field,William Hope Hodgson,Mark E. Burgess | The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it'… | OL19336173W |
|
The age of Caesar | Plutarch | "An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world. Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousand… | OL20047390W |
|
Moralia | Plutarch | The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also… | OL723491W |