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The Notary - Alexandros RangavisA wealthy Count on his deathbed, his libertine nephew, an upstanding young clerk, and a scheming notary who stops at nothing to protect his daughter make The Notary an iconic tale of suspense and intrigue, love and murder. The classic work of Alexandros Rangavis, The Notary, a mystery set on the island of Cephalonia on the eve of the Greek Revolution of 1821, is Modern Greek literature's contribution to the tradition of early crime fiction.

but also because it allows the unique opportunity to observe the playwright’s ‘rewriting’ of his earlier play on the same mythological topic

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PROLEGOMENA ET TEXTUM CONTINENS

Tacitus also takes us to Roman Britain and the surging rebellion led by Boudicca in protest against Rome greed and their abuse of power

complete with an introduction and the original Latin on facing pages

Augustus Caesar

Putnam offers insightful analyses of the most extensive and famous ekphrases in the Aeneid—the paintings in Juno’s temples in Carthage

has for its chief theme the expedition of Dionysus against the Indians

Against this background the Fifth puts the positive

revelatory history of the Greek-speaking people and their global impact told as never before

written to instruct future rulers by his example

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