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The Monumentum Ancyranum in Ankara, Turkey. Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Eng. The Deeds of the Divine Augustus) is a monumental inscription composed by the first Roman emperor, Augustus, giving a first-person record of his life and accomplishments. [1] The Res Gestae is especially significant because it gives an insight into the image Augustus ...
t. e. The Epic Cycle ( Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized : Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes ...
Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian ( Latin: Servius or Seruius Grammaticus ), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian. He earned a contemporary reputation as the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he authored a set of commentaries on the works of Virgil. These works, In Tria Virgilii Opera Expositio ...
1909 (First 25 volumes), 1910 (Next 25 volumes), 1914 (Lectures), 1916 (Reading Guide) The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard UniversityPresident Charles W. Eliot.
Violent suppression of protests (in Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) Spread of liberal democracy in the former Soviet Union. Inability of post-revolution governments to substantially reduce corruption. A resurgence in anti-Americanism and jingoism in post-Soviet Russia. the Russo-Georgian and Russo-Ukrainian wars.
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in Early Medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
Epic poem, religious. Publication date. 1671. Publication place. Kingdom of England. Preceded by. Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained is a poem by English poet John Milton, first published in 1671. [1] The volume in which it appeared also contained the poet's closet drama Samson Agonistes.
Publishers Weekly called The English Assassin a "superbly crafted thriller." However, other reviews were less glowing. Thom Geier writing for Entertainment Weekly gave the novel a "C" rating. Geier noted that "Silva's plotting is as sophisticated as paint-by-numbers" and that his novel suffers from "sloppily written descriptions."