| Additional Audio and Online Resources |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| About the Editors |
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1 | (5) |
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Illustration The Law Code of Hammurabi |
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Map, Asia, Europe, andNorth Africa in 1 C.E |
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2 | (4) |
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Tutankhamen and Ankhesenamen |
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The Ishtar Gate of Nebuchadnezzar II at Babylon |
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Gold funeral mask, Mycenae |
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Hercules adn the Erymanthian boar |
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Jain diagram of the universe |
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Bronze incense burner form the tomb of prince Liu Sheng |
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Portrait of a woman, pompeii |
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6 | (553) |
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Illustration, Egyption papyrus: creating of heaven an earth |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (30) |
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Illustration. Portraint Of Mereruka |
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12 | (2) |
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Map. The Near East in 1250 B.C.E |
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14 | (7) |
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Illustration. Spoils from the Tmple in Jerusalem |
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21 | (2) |
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A Babylonia Thegony (C. 2nd to 1st millennia B.C.E) |
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23 | (2) |
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The Memphite Theology (c.2500 B.C.E) |
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25 | (3) |
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Genesis(1 st millennium B.C.E)
Chapter 1-11 |
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28 | (11) |
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39 | (2) |
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Poetry of Love and Devotion (c.3rd to 2nd millennia B.C.E) |
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41 | (57) |
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Last Night, as I, the queen, was shining bright |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (3) |
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Distrating is the foliage of my pasture |
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43 | (1) |
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I sail downstreamd in the ferry by the pull of the current |
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43 | (1) |
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The voice of the turtlelove speaks out |
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43 | (1) |
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I embrace her, and her arms open wide |
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44 | (1) |
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One, the lady love without a duplicate |
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44 | (1) |
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How well the lady knows to dast the noose |
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45 | (1) |
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Why need you hold converser with your heart? |
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45 | (1) |
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I passed by her house in the dark |
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45 | (1) |
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The Song of Songs (1st millennium B.C.E) (Jerusalem Bible Translation) |
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46 | (52) |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (c.1200 B.C.E) |
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56 | (1) |
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Illustration, Gilgames and Enkidu slaying the Bull of Heaven |
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57 | (41) |
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98 | (47) |
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The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld (late 2nd millennium B.C.E) |
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98 | (4) |
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From The Book of the Dead (2nd millenium B.C.E) |
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102 | (1) |
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Illustration. Scene from the Book of the Dead |
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103 | (5) |
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Letters to the Dead (2nd of 1st millennia B.C.E) |
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108 | (2) |
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Kabti-ilani-marduk (8the Century B.C.E) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (13) |
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Cross Currents Death and Immoratality |
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124 | (1) |
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The Book of Job (6the Century B.C.E) (Revised Standard Version) |
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125 | (20) |
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From The Babylonian Theodicy |
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140 | (2) |
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Psalm 22 (My God,. my GOd, Why hast thou forsaken me?) |
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142 | (1) |
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Psalm 102 (Hear my prager, O Lord, and let my cry come unot thee) |
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143 | (2) |
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Stragners in a Stragne Land |
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145 | (40) |
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The Story of Sinuhe (c. 1925 B.C.E) |
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145 | (1) |
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Illustrations Hebrew captives being taken into exile |
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146 | (7) |
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The Two Brothers (c. 1200 B.C.E) |
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153 | (25) |
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The Joseph Story (1st Millenium B.C.E) Genesis 37-50 |
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(New Interntional Version) |
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178 | (4) |
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Strangers in a Strange Land |
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182 | (3) |
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185 | (13) |
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Illustration. Stature of Zeus or Poseidon |
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184 | (2) |
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Map. The Greek City-States in 450 B.C.E. |
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186 | (1) |
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Illustration. Amazon combat |
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187 | (11) |
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Homer (8th century B.C.E.) |
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198 | (361) |
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201 | (1) |
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201 | (13) |
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214 | (13) |
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227 | (11) |
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238 | (21) |
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Filip Visnjic: The Death of Kraljevic marko |
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255 | (4) |
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259 | (1) |
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Athena Inspires the Prince |
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259 | (11) |
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270 | (11) |
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281 | (12) |
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The King and Queen of sparta |
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293 | (21) |
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Odysseus---Nymph and Shipwreck |
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314 | (12) |
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The Princess and the Stranger |
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326 | (8) |
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Phaeacia's Halls and Gardens |
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334 | (8) |
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A Day for Songs and Contests |
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342 | (15) |
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In the One-Eyed Giant's Cave |
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357 | (13) |
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The Bewitching Queen of Aeaea |
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370 | (14) |
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384 | (16) |
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400 | (4) |
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Illustration. Odysseus and the Sirens |
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404 | (7) |
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411 | (11) |
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422 | (13) |
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The Prince Sets Sail for Home |
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435 | (13) |
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448 | (26) |
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474 | (1) |
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The Beggar-King of Ithaca |
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474 | (11) |
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485 | (15) |
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500 | (10) |
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510 | (10) |
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520 | (12) |
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532 | (9) |
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541 | (18) |
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The Silence of the Sirens |
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554 | (1) |
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555 | (2) |
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557 | (2) |
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559 | (371) |
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Arkhilokhos (7th century B.C.E.) |
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560 | (2) |
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560 | (1) |
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561 | (1) |
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561 | (1) |
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Sappho (early 7th century B.C.E.) |
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562 | (6) |
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Rich-thoroned immoratal Aphrodite |
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562 | (2) |
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Illustration. sappho and Alkaios |
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563 | (1) |
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564 | (1) |
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564 | (1) |
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He looks to me to be in heaven |
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565 | (1) |
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565 | (1) |
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Honestly, I wish I were dead |
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565 | (1) |
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566 | (1) |
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566 | (1) |
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566 | (2) |
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Poems Lovers Recognition Meaning of His Absence Dawn Falliing |
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567 | (1) |
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Alkaios (7th-6th centuries B.C.E.) |
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568 | (2) |
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And fluttered Argive Helen's heart |
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568 | (1) |
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They tell that Priam and his sons |
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569 | (1) |
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569 | (1) |
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I can't make out the lie of the winds |
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569 | (1) |
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570 | (6) |
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570 | (6) |
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574 | (2) |
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576 | (1) |
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Aeschylus (525-426 B.C.E.) |
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576 | (40) |
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579 | (37) |
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615 | (1) |
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Sphocles (c. 496-406 B.C.E.) |
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616 | (78) |
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618 | (38) |
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656 | (38) |
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691 | (3) |
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694 | (32) |
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Solon (c. 640-558 B.C.E.) |
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694 | (1) |
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Our state will never fall |
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695 | (1) |
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The commons I have granted |
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696 | (1) |
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Those aims for which I called the public meeting |
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696 | (1) |
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Thucydides (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) |
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697 | (1) |
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from The Peloponnesian War |
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697 | (12) |
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Plato (c. 429-347 B.C.E.) |
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709 | (1) |
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709 | (17) |
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725 | (1) |
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Euripides (c. 480-405 B.C.E.) |
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726 | (38) |
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727 | (2) |
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729 | (35) |
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760 | (4) |
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Aristophanes (c. 455-c. 386 B.C.E.) |
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764 | (35) |
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766 | (33) |
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799 | (10) |
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Illustration. Lady Writig a Love Letter |
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798 | (3) |
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Map. The Mauryan Empire in 250 B.C.E. |
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801 | (8) |
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The Mahabharata of Vyasa (c. 4th century B.C.E.---c. 2nd century B.C.E.) |
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809 | (52) |
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Illustraion. Mahabharata frieze, Angkor Wat |
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810 | (3) |
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[ The Friendly Dice Game] |
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813 | (17) |
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[ The Temptatin of Karna] |
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830 | (9) |
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839 | (22) |
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851 | (3) |
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kautilya: from The Treatise on Power |
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854 | (3) |
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857 | (4) |
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The Ramayana of Valmiki (c. 200 B.C.E.) |
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861 | (47) |
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Illustration. Comic book Ramayana: The Death of Ravana |
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862 | (2) |
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864 | (15) |
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879 | (16) |
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[ The Fire rdeal of Sita] |
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895 | (13) |
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from A Pblic Address, 1989: The Birthplace of God Cannot Be Moved! |
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900 | (5) |
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905 | (3) |
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908 | (22) |
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The Ramayana of Valimiki (c. 200 B.C.E.) |
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908 | (1) |
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[ The Invention of Poetryl |
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909 | (6) |
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Rajashekhara (early 900s) |
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915 | (1) |
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from Inquiry into Literature |
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916 | (3) |
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919 | (1) |
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920 | (10) |
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Daniel H.H. Ingalls et al. |
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929 | (1) |
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Love in a Courtly Language |
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930 | (401) |
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The Tamil Anthologies (2nd-3rd centuries) |
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931 | (6) |
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Orampokiyar: What Her Girl Freind Said |
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931 | (1) |
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Annymous: What Her Girl Firend Said to Him |
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932 | (1) |
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932 | (1) |
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Kapilar: What She Said to Her Girl Friend |
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933 | (1) |
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Uruttiran: What She Said to Her Girl Friend |
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933 | (3) |
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Maturaittamilkkutta Katuvan mallanar: What the servants Said to Him |
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936 | (1) |
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Vanmanipputi: What She Said to Her Girl Friend |
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937 | (1) |
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The Seven Hundred Songs of Hala (2nd or 3rd century C.E.) |
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937 | (3) |
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938 | (1) |
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938 | (1) |
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938 | (1) |
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939 | (1) |
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939 | (1) |
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939 | (1) |
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He finds the missinary position |
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939 | (1) |
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939 | (1) |
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940 | (1) |
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940 | (1) |
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The Hundred Poems of Amaru (7th century) |
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940 | (4) |
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She is the child, but I the one of timid heart |
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941 | (1) |
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You will return in an hour? |
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941 | (1) |
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As he came to bed the knot fell open f itself |
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941 | (1) |
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The Sheets, marked here with betel |
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941 | (1) |
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At first out bodies knew a perfect oneness |
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942 | (1) |
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Your palm erases from your check the painted ornament |
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942 | (1) |
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They lay upon the bed each turned aside |
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942 | (1) |
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If you are angry with me, you of lotus eyes |
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942 | (1) |
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You listened not to words of friends |
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942 | (1) |
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At day's end as the darkness crept apace |
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942 | (1) |
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943 | (1) |
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943 | (1) |
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943 | (1) |
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Kalidasa (4th-5th centuries C.E.) |
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944 | (73) |
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Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection |
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946 | (71) |
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Kuntaka: from The Life-Force of Literary Beauty |
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1009 | (3) |
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1012 | (1) |
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from Sakuntala: Its Inner Meaning |
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1013 | (4) |
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China: The Classical Tradition |
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1017 | (9) |
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Illustration. Terra-cotta soldiers |
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1016 | (3) |
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Illustration. Oracle bone inscription |
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1019 | (1) |
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Illustration. Historical table of Chinese script |
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1020 | (2) |
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Map. China in 250 B.C.E. (the Warring States Perid) |
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1022 | (4) |
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The Bok of Songs (1000-600 B.C.E.) |
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1026 | (20) |
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1027 | (1) |
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1028 | (1) |
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1028 | (1) |
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In the Wilds Is a Deal Doe |
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1028 | (1) |
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In the wilds there is a ddead deer |
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1029 | (1) |
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Lies a dead deer on younder plain |
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1029 | (1) |
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1029 | (1) |
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1030 | (1) |
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1031 | (1) |
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1031 | (1) |
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1031 | (1) |
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1032 | (1) |
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Out in the Bushlands a Creeper Grows |
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1032 | (1) |
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In the open grunds there is the creeping grass |
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1033 | (1) |
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Mid the bind-grass on the plain |
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1033 | (1) |
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1033 | (1) |
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1034 | (1) |
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1034 | (1) |
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1035 | (1) |
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1035 | (1) |
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1035 | (2) |
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1037 | (2) |
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Heaven Protects and secures you |
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1038 | (1) |
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Heaven conserve thy course in quietness |
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1038 | (1) |
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1039 | (1) |
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1040 | (1) |
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1041 | (1) |
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1041 | (2) |
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1043 | (2) |
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Confucius: from The Analects |
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1043 | (2) |
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from Preface to the of Songs |
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1045 | (1) |
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Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) |
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1046 | (15) |
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1047 | (14) |
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1061 | (32) |
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1062 | (1) |
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Illustration. Laozi Riding an Ox |
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1063 | (6) |
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1069 | (14) |
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1083 | (1) |
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1084 | (1) |
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1084 | (5) |
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Liu Yiquing (403-444 C.E.) |
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1089 | (1) |
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from A New Account of the Tales of the World |
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1089 | (4) |
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1090 | (3) |
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Rome and the Roman Empire |
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1093 | (12) |
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Illustration. Marble statue of Augustus Caesar |
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1092 | (3) |
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Illustration. Fight of the Gladiators |
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1095 | (1) |
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Illustration. The Roman Forum |
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1096 | (1) |
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1097 | (5) |
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Map. The Roman Empire in 150 C.E. |
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1102 | (3) |
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1105 | (101) |
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1109 | (1) |
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1109 | (16) |
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1125 | (19) |
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[ The Passion of the Queen] |
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1144 | (22) |
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1166 | (27) |
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1193 | (2) |
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1195 | (11) |
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Ode 1.24: Why should our grief for a man so loved |
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1201 | (1) |
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Macrobius: froom Saturnalia |
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1202 | (4) |
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1206 | (38) |
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1208 | (36) |
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1208 | (1) |
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1208 | (9) |
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1217 | (1) |
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1218 | (4) |
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1222 | (5) |
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[ The Minotaur: Daedalus and Icarus] |
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1227 | (3) |
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Book 10 [ Orpheus and Eurydice] |
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1230 | (4) |
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[ Orpheus's Song: Ganymede, Hyacinth, Pygmalion] |
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1234 | (4) |
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1238 | (2) |
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1240 | (4) |
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The Culture of Rme and the Beginnings of Christianity |
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1244 | (53) |
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Illustration. Chariot Race at the Circus Maximus in Rome |
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1245 | (1) |
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1245 | (7) |
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(``Cry out lamenting, Venuses & Cupids'') |
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1246 | (1) |
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(``Lesbia, let us live only for loving'') |
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1246 | (1) |
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(``you will dine well with me, my dear Fabullus'') |
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1247 | (1) |
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(``To me tha man seems like a god in heaven'') |
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1247 | (1) |
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(``If any pleasur can come to a man through recalling'') |
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1248 | (1) |
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(``If ever something which somene with no expectation'') |
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1248 | (1) |
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1249 | (1) |
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The Priapea: In your honor, Lord Priapus The law which ( as they say) Priapus coined You ask why I don'st hide my fifthy charms? Whichever one of you throwing a party at hoem |
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1250 | (2) |
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1252 | (45) |
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1252 | (1) |
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(``Once I was wood from a worthlless old fig tree'') |
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1252 | (1) |
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(``Leaving the big city behind I found lodigings at Aricia'') |
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1253 | (3) |
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1256 | (1) |
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(``The young bloods are not s eager now'') |
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1256 | (1) |
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(``You see Soracte standing white and deep'') |
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1257 | (1) |
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(``Not only did he plant you on an unholy day'') |
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1258 | (1) |
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(``Ah how quickly, Postumus, Postumus'') |
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1259 | (1) |
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1260 | (1) |
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1261 | (5) |
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1266 | (1) |
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from Epistle to the Romans (New Revised Standad Version) |
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1267 | (4) |
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1271 | (1) |
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from The Gospel Accrding t Luke (New Revised Standard Versin) |
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1272 | (11) |
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from The Acts of the apostles (New Revised Standard Version) |
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1283 | (6) |
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Roman Reactions to Early Christianity |
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1289 | (1) |
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Suetonius (c. 70-after 122 C.E.): from The Twelve Caesars |
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1289 | (2) |
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Tacitus (c. 56-after 118 C.E.): from The Annlas of Imperial Rome |
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1291 | (3) |
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Pliny the Younger (c. 60-c. 112 C.E,): Lette to the Emperor Trajan |
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1294 | (1) |
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Trajan (r. 98-117 C.E.): Responses to Pliny |
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1295 | (1) |
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The Culture of Rome and the Beginnings of Christianty |
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1296 | (1) |
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1297 | (34) |
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1298 | (1) |
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[ Invocationi and Infancy] |
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1299 | (5) |
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1304 | (1305) |
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1305 | (4) |
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1309 | (5) |
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1314 | (3) |
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1317 | (4) |
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1321 | (2) |
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1323 | (3) |
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[ Time, Etenity, and Memory] |
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1326 | (3) |
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Michel de Montaigne: from Essays |
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1329 | (1) |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseaus: from confessions |
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1330 | (1) |
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| Bibliography |
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1331 | (7) |
| Credits |
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1338 | (5) |
| Index |
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| Additional Audio and Online Resources |
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xvii | |
| Preface |
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xxi | |
| Acknowledgments |
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xxvi | |
| About the Editors |
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1 | (10) |
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Illustration. King Arthur and His Knights |
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Map. Africa, Asia, and Europe in 1000 C.E. |
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2 | (3) |
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Liang King, Scholar of the Eastern Fence |
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Portriat of Empress Chabi |
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Genji Holding the Newborn Kaoru |
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Jesus Watching Muhammad Leave Mecca |
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Limbourg Borther, February, February, from Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry |
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Prayer hall in the Great Mospque, Cordoba |
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Upper chapel, Sainte-Chapelle |
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Sandro Botticelli, illustration to Danies' Commedia |
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5 | (6) |
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11 | (11) |
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Illustration. Sakyamuni Buddha, Yungag, Shanxi Province |
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10 | (4) |
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Map. The Tang Empire in 750 C.E. |
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14 | (2) |
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Illustraion. Urban plans of imperial Chang'an and of imperial Rome |
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16 | (5) |
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Illustration. Female polo-player |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (61) |
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Liu Xiang (c. 79-89 B.C.E.) |
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23 | (3) |
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Illustration. Mencius and His Mother, from an illustration version of the Memoirs of Women |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (6) |
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27 | (5) |
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32 | (3) |
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from Precepts for Social Life |
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32 | (3) |
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35 | (16) |
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Here's a Willow Bough: Songs of the Thirteen Months |
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35 | (3) |
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38 | (3) |
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41 | (8) |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (17) |
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52 | (16) |
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from The story of the Western Wing |
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57 | (11) |
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68 | (10) |
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Biographty of the Gentlemen of the Five Willows |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (2) |
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Wang Wei: Song of Peachb Blossom Spring |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (2) |
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Returning to the Farm to Dwell |
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74 | (1) |
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from On Reading the Seas and Mountains Classic |
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75 | (1) |
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The Double Ninth, k in Retirement |
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75 | (1) |
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In the Sixth Month of 408, Fire |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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from Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine |
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77 | (1) |
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(I built my hut beside as traveled road) |
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78 | (1) |
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Han-Shan (7th-9th centuries) |
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78 | (5) |
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Men ask the way to Cold Mountian |
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79 | (1) |
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Spring-water in the green creek is clear |
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79 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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I climb the road to Cold Mountain |
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79 | (1) |
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Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain |
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79 | (1) |
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Cold clifs, more beautiful the deeper you enter |
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80 | (1) |
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Men these days search for a way through the clouds |
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80 | (1) |
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Today I sat before the cliff |
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80 | (1) |
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Have I a body or have I none? |
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80 | (1) |
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My mind is like the autumn moon |
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81 | (1) |
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Do you have the poems of Han-ahan in your house? |
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81 | (2) |
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from Preface to the Poems of Han-shan |
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81 | (2) |
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Poetry of the Tang Dynasty |
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83 | (199) |
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83 | (3) |
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from The Wang River Collection |
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84 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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Farewell to Yuan the Second on His Mission to Anxi |
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85 | (1) |
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Visiting the Temple of Gathered Fragrance |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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In Response to Vice-Magistrate Zhang |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (7) |
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Drinking Alone with the Moon trans. Vikram Seth) |
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87 | (2) |
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Illustartion. Liang Kai, Li Bo chanting a Poem |
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88 | (1) |
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Fighting South of the Ramparts |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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The Jewel Stairs' Grievance |
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91 | (1) |
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The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
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91 | (1) |
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listening to a Monk from Shiu Playing the Lute |
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92 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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Sitting Alone by Jingtin Mountain |
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92 | (1) |
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Quesion and Answer in the Mountains |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (4) |
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94 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (2) |
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97 | (1) |
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97 | (4) |
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A Song of Unending Sorrow |
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98 | (3) |
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101 | (24) |
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101 | (2) |
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from A Discourse on Literature |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (8) |
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from Rhymeoprose on Literature (tranms. Achilees Fang) |
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103 | (8) |
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111 | (5) |
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112 | (4) |
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Wang Changling (c. 690-c. 756) |
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116 | (4) |
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from A Discussion f Literature and Meaning |
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117 | (3) |
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120 | (5) |
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from The Twenty-four Classes of Poetry |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (9) |
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Illustration. shusetsu Dojin, landscape paonting |
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124 | (5) |
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129 | (2) |
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Illustration. Muto Shoi, Portrait of the Monk Muso Soodeki |
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131 | (3) |
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Man' Yoshu (Collection of Myriad Leaves) (c. 702-c. 785) |
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134 | (12) |
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Emperor Yuryaku (r. 456-479) |
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136 | (1) |
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Your basket, with your loevely basket |
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136 | (1) |
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Emperor Jomei (r. 629-641) |
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137 | (1) |
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Climbing Kagu Mountain and looking on the land |
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137 | (1) |
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Princess Nukata (c. 638-fl. Until 690s) |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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Kakinomoto N Hitomaro (fl. 689-700) |
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138 | (1) |
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On passing the ruined captital of Omi |
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139 | (2) |
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On leaving his wife as he set ut from iwami |
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141 | (1) |
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Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai |
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After the death of his wife |
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142 | (1) |
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Yamabe N Akahito (fl. 724-736) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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Yamanue NO Okura (c. 660-c. 733) |
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145 | (1) |
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Of longing for his children |
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145 | (1) |
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Murakski Shikibu (c. 978-c. 1014) |
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146 | (91) |
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147 | (90) |
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148 | (9) |
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157 | (2) |
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159 | (8) |
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167 | (4) |
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171 | (10) |
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181 | (3) |
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184 | (2) |
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186 | (4) |
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190 | (2) |
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192 | (6) |
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198 | (15) |
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213 | (3) |
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216 | (3) |
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219 | (2) |
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from Diary of Murasaki Shkibu |
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221 | (1) |
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Daughter of Sugawara no Takasue: from Sarahina Diary |
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222 | (10) |
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The Riverside Counselor's Stories: The Lady Who Prefered Inects |
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232 | (5) |
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237 | (22) |
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Onon NO Komachi (fl. c. 850) |
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237 | (1) |
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Illustraion. Japanese court women from The Tale of Genji |
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238 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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The seaweed gatherer's weary feet |
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239 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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I know it must be this way |
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239 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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Though I go to him constantly |
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240 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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Michitsuna' Mother (936-995) |
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240 | (2) |
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242 | (5) |
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Sei Shonagon (c. 965-c. 1017) |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (11) |
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258 | (1) |
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Tales of the Heike (14th century) |
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259 | (23) |
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The Bells off Guion Monastery (1:1) |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (6) |
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The Death of Kiyomori (6:8) |
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268 | (3) |
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The Death of Lord Kis (9:4) |
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271 | (3) |
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The Death of Atsumori (9:16) |
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274 | (1) |
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The Drowning of the Empeor (11:9) |
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275 | (2) |
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The Six Paths of Existence (4) |
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277 | (4) |
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The Death of the Imperial Lady (5) |
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281 | (1) |
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Noh: Drama of Ghosts, Memories, and Salvation |
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282 | (47) |
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284 | (31) |
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Atsumori, A Tale of Heicke Play |
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285 | (6) |
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291 | (24) |
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Kyogen, Delicious Poision |
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303 | (12) |
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Classicial Arabic and Islamic Literatures |
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315 | (14) |
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Illustration. Calligraphy of the name of the Prophet Mohammd |
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314 | (11) |
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Map. the Abbasid Caliphate in 850 C.E. |
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325 | (2) |
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Illustration. Mosque of Muhammad Ali, Cairo |
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327 | (2) |
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329 | (826) |
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Imru' Al-Qays (died c. 550) |
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331 | (4) |
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Mu'allaqa (Stop, let us weep at the memory of a loved one) |
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331 | (4) |
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335 | (3) |
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A mote in your eye, dust blown on the wind? |
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336 | (1) |
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Elegy for Ritha Sakhr (In the evening remembrance keeps me awake) |
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337 | (1) |
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the Brigand Poets---Al-Sa `Alik (c. 6th century) |
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338 | (3) |
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338 | (1) |
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Do not be so free with you blame of me |
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338 | (2) |
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340 | (1) |
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Come, who will convey to the young men |
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340 | (1) |
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A piece of news has come to us |
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340 | (1) |
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341 | (32) |
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Revelations Well Expounded |
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343 | (1) |
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344 | (1) |
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344 | (1) |
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345 | (1) |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (1) |
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347 | (3) |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (2) |
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353 | (5) |
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358 | (2) |
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360 | (1) |
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361 | (1) |
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362 | (1) |
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363 | (1) |
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363 | (3) |
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366 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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369 | (4) |
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Ibn Sa'ad: from The Prophet and His Disciples |
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369 | (4) |
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373 | (11) |
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374 | (1) |
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375 | (1) |
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376 | (2) |
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378 | (1) |
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378 | (1) |
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378 | (1) |
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379 | (1) |
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379 | (1) |
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380 | (4) |
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383 | (1) |
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384 | (22) |
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Illustratin, Medieval portrait fo four musicians |
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385 | (1) |
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385 | (2) |
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Splendid yung blades, like lamphs in the darkness |
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387 | (1) |
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My body is racked with sicknes, worn out by exhaustion |
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388 | (1) |
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Praise wine in its swetness |
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388 | (1) |
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O censor, I satisfied the Imam, he was content |
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389 | (1) |
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Bringing the cup of oblivion for sadness |
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389 | (1) |
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What's between me and the censurers |
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390 | (1) |
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His friend called him Sammaja for his beauty |
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391 | (1) |
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One possessed with a rosy cheek |
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391 | (2) |
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Hasab al-Shaikh Ja'far: from Descent f Abu Nuws |
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392 | (1) |
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393 | (1) |
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Say to whoever finds fault with the poem of his panegyrist |
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394 | (1) |
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I thought f you the day my journeys |
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394 | (2) |
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Sweet sleep has been barred from eyes |
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396 | (3) |
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399 | (1) |
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On hearing in Egypt that his dead been reported to Saif al-Daula in Aleppo |
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400 | (1) |
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Satire on Kafur composed...before the poet's departure from Egypt |
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401 | (2) |
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Panegyric to `Adud al-Daula and his sons Abu'l-Fawaris and Abu Dulaf |
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403 | (3) |
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405 | (1) |
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The Thousand and One Nights (9th-14the centuries) |
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406 | (75) |
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Prolgue: The story of King Shahrayar and SAhahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter |
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408 | (6) |
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[ The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey] |
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414 | (2) |
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[ The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife] |
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416 | (2) |
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from The Tale of the Porter and the Young Girls |
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418 | (10) |
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[ Tale of the second Kalandar] |
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428 | (12) |
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[ The Tale of Zubaidah, the First of the Girls] |
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440 | (6) |
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from The Tale of Sympathy the Learned |
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446 | (10) |
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from An Adventure of the Poet Abu Nuwas |
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456 | (3) |
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from The Flowering Terrace of Wit and the Garden of Gallantry |
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459 | (1) |
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[ The Youth and His Master] |
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459 | (2) |
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461 | (2) |
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[ Al-Rashid Judges of love] |
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463 | (1) |
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from The End of Jafar and the Baramakids |
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463 | (8) |
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471 | (10) |
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Muhammad al-Tabari: from History of the Problems and Kings |
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474 | (5) |
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The Thousand and One Nights |
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479 | (2) |
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Jalal Al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) |
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481 | (9) |
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What excuses have you to offer, my heart, for so many shortcomings? |
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482 | (2) |
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The king has cme, the king has come, adorn the palace-hall |
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484 | (1) |
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Have you ever seen any lover wh was satiated with this passion |
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484 | (1) |
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Three days it is now since my fair one has become changed |
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485 | (1) |
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The month of December has departed, and January too |
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485 | (2) |
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We have become durnk and out heart has departed |
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487 | (1) |
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We are foes to ourselves, and friends to him who slays us |
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487 | (1) |
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Not for one single movment do I let hold of you |
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488 | (1) |
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who'll take us home, now we've drunk ourselves blink? |
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489 | (1) |
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Asceticism, Sufism, and Wisdom |
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490 | (17) |
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Illustration, Husayn Bayqara, majalis al-Ushshaq (``Sessions of the Lovers'') |
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490 | (1) |
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491 | (1) |
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I have a dear friend whom I visit in the solitary places |
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492 | (1) |
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I continued to float on the sea of love |
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492 | (1) |
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Paniful enuogh it is that I am ever calling out to You |
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493 | (1) |
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Your place in my heart is the whle of my heart |
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493 | (1) |
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You who blame me for my love for Him |
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493 | (1) |
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I sweat To God, the sun has never risen or set |
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493 | (1) |
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Ah! I or You? These are two Gods |
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493 | (1) |
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Here am I, here am I, O my8 secret, O my trust! |
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494 | (1) |
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I am not I and I am not He |
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494 | (1) |
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494 | (1) |
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O docmicile without rival, neither abandoned |
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495 | (1) |
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I am ``The Reviver''---I speak not allusively |
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495 | (1) |
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Of knowers, am I not most avaricidous |
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495 | (1) |
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Truly, my two Friends, I am a keeper of the Hly Law |
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496 | (1) |
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Time is passing by my yoouth and my vigor |
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496 | (1) |
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Bouts of dryness came upon me constantly from every side |
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496 | (1) |
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Law and Soundess make of him a heretic |
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497 | (1) |
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The time of my release, which I had always calculated |
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497 | (1) |
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To that which they dn't understand all people do oppose |
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497 | (1) |
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The abode from which thour art absent is sad |
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497 | (1) |
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Farid Al-Din Al-`Attar (c. 1119-c. 1190) |
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498 | (1) |
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from The Conference of the Birds |
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498 | (9) |
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Asceticism, Sufism, and Wisdom |
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507 | (1) |
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507 | (12) |
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509 | (1) |
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from The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam |
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509 | (9) |
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Illustration. Muhammad Visiting Paradise |
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518 | (1) |
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519 | (13) |
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Map. The Travels of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta |
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520 | (1) |
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from The Travels of Ibn Battuta |
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521 | (11) |
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The Epic of Son-Jara (13th-20 centuries) |
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532 | (35) |
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Map. The Malinke Empire of Mali, c. 1350) |
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533 | (34) |
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567 | (20) |
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Illustration. Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris |
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566 | (3) |
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Map. Medieval Eurpe, c. 1100 C.E. |
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569 | (4) |
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Illustration. Shrine of the Bok of Dimma |
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573 | (2) |
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Illustration. Saint Benedict writing his rule |
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575 | (3) |
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Illustration. Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry |
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578 | (9) |
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587 | (75) |
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from The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki |
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653 | (8) |
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Jorge Luis Borges: Poem Written in a Cpy of Beowulf |
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661 | (1) |
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The Poem of the Cid (late 12th-early 13th centuries) |
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662 | (94) |
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Iberia, The Meeting of Three Words |
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756 | (29) |
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Map. The Iberian Peninsula, c. 1180 |
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757 | (1) |
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Illustration. Christian and Muslim playing chess, from the of Games |
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758 | (1) |
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Castilian Ballads and Traditional Songs (c. 11th-14th centuries) |
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759 | (1) |
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759 | (1) |
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760 | (1) |
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761 | (1) |
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761 | (1) |
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761 | (1) |
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Mozarabic Kharjas (10th-early 11th centuries) |
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762 | (1) |
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762 | (1) |
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Ah tell me, little sisters |
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762 | (1) |
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762 | (1) |
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763 | (1) |
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Take me out of this plight |
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763 | (1) |
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Mother, I shall not sleep |
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763 | (1) |
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763 | (1) |
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763 | (3) |
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IBN Rushd (Averroes) (1126-1198) |
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766 | (1) |
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from The Decisive Tratise Determining the Nature of the Connection Between Religion and Philosophy |
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766 | (2) |
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768 | (1) |
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769 | (1) |
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Solomon IBN Gabirol (c. 1021-c. 1057) |
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770 | (1) |
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She loked at me and her eyelids burned |
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771 | (1) |
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771 | (1) |
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The mind is flawed, the way to wisdom blocked |
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771 | (1) |
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Winter wroter with the ink of its rain and showers |
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772 | (1) |
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Yehuda Ha-Levi (before 1075-1141) |
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772 | (1) |
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Cups without wine are lowly |
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772 | (1) |
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Ofra does her laundry with my tears |
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773 | (1) |
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Once when I fondled him upon my thighs |
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773 | (1) |
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From time's beginning, You were love's abode |
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773 | (1) |
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Your breeze, Western shore, is perfumed |
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773 | (1) |
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774 | (1) |
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774 | (4) |
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778 | (1) |
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from Blanquerna: The Bk of the Lover and the Beloved |
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779 | (1) |
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Dom Dinis, King of Portugal (1261-1325) |
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780 | (1) |
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Provencals right well may versify |
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781 | (1) |
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Of what are you dying, daughter? |
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781 | (1) |
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O blossoms of the verdant pine |
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782 | (1) |
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The lovely girl arose at earliest dawn |
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782 | (1) |
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Martin Codax (fl. mid-13th Century) |
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783 | (1) |
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Ah God, if only my love could know |
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783 | (1) |
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My beautiful sister, come hurry with me |
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784 | (1) |
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O waves that i've come to see |
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784 | (1) |
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Iberia, The Meeting of Three Worlds |
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784 | (1) |
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Marie De France (mid-12th-early 13th centuries) |
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785 | (13) |
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787 | (1) |
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787 | (1) |
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Bisclavret (The WereWolf) |
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788 | (7) |
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Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle) |
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795 | (3) |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th centure) |
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798 | (58) |
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Peter Abelard and Heloise (c. 1079-c. 1142) (c. 1095-c. 1163) |
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856 | (18) |
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from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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858 | (12) |
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David's Lament for Jaonathan |
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870 | (1) |
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870 | (4) |
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Bernard of Clairvaux: Letters Against Aberlard |
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872 | (2) |
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from The Play of Adam (c. 1150) |
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874 | (19) |
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875 | (18) |
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
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893 | (176) |
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897 | (6) |
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903 | (1) |
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903 | (1) |
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Illustratin. Kante's Earth, Hell, Purgatory, anjd Paradise |
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904 | (121) |
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1025 | (1) |
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[ Arrival at Moount Purgatory] |
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1026 | (3) |
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1029 | (4) |
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1033 | (4) |
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Canto 29 [ The Earthly Paradise] |
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1037 | (4) |
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1041 | (4) |
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1045 | (1) |
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[ Ascent Toward the Heavens] |
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1046 | (3) |
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1049 | (4) |
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1053 | (4) |
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1057 | (10) |
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from The Canterbury Tales: The Monk's Tale |
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1061 | (1) |
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from The system of Dante's Hell |
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1062 | (3) |
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1065 | (2) |
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Illustration. Gustave Dore, 1870 engraving of the Ugolino episode in Dante's Inferno |
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1067 | (2) |
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Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) |
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1069 | (18) |
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from The Travels of Marco Polo |
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1070 | (17) |
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1082 | (2) |
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1084 | (3) |
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Geofrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) |
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1087 | (68) |
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1088 | (1) |
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1089 | (20) |
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1109 | (2) |
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1111 | (14) |
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue |
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1125 | (20) |
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1145 | (10) |
| Bibliography |
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1155 | (12) |
| Credits |
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1167 | (8) |
| Index |
|
1175 | |
| Additional Audio and Online Resources |
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xv | |
| Preface |
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xix | |
| Acknowledgments |
|
xxiv | |
| Abouot the Editors |
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1 | (5) |
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Illustration. Don Cristbal Colon, Admiral of Ships Bound for the Indies |
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2 | (4) |
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Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait |
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Agnolo Bronzino, Allegory (Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time) |
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Leonardo da Vinci, Muscles of the Neck and Shoulders |
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Sophonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game |
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Pieter Bruehel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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Frontispuece to the Codex Ferjervary-Mayer |
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Miguel Cabrera Portriat of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz |
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6 | (3) |
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The Vernacular Revolution |
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9 | (868) |
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Vernacular Writing in South Asia |
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10 | (20) |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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The crookedness of the serpent |
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12 | (1) |
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Before the grey reaches the cheek |
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12 | (1) |
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I don't know anything like time-beats and meter |
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13 | (1) |
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The rich will make temples for Siva |
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13 | (4) |
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from The Legend of Basavanna |
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14 | (3) |
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17 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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Saints, I see the world is mad |
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18 | (1) |
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Brother, where de your two gods come from? |
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19 | (1) |
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Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge |
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20 | (1) |
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When you die, what do you with your body? |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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The road the pandits took |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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Have I utterly lost my hold on reality |
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22 | (1) |
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I scrible and cancel it again |
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23 | (1) |
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Where does one begin with you? |
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23 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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Born a Shudra, I have ben a trader |
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25 | (1) |
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Kdhetrayya (mid-17th centur) |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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A Young Woman to a Friend |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover |
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28 | (1) |
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A Married Woman to Her Lover (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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A Married Woman to Her Lover (2) |
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29 | (1) |
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Wu Cheng'En (c. 1500-1582) |
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30 | (78) |
|
Illustration. Xuanzang with his disciples |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (75) |
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The Rise of the Vernacular in Eurpe |
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108 | (25) |
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Attacking and Defending the Vernacular Bible |
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108 | (1) |
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Illusration. Colantonio, St. Jerome in His Study |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (2) |
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from On Translating: An Open Letter |
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110 | (2) |
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The King James Bible: from The Tranlators to the REader |
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112 | (5) |
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Vernacular Translations of the Bible |
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114 | (3) |
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117 | (1) |
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from Letter to Can Grander Della Scala |
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118 | (1) |
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from The Abbot and the Learned Lady |
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119 | (3) |
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Catherine of Siena: from A Letter to Raymond of Capua |
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122 | (1) |
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: from Response to ``Sor Filotea'' |
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123 | (10) |
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133 | (13) |
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Illustration. Francesco Traini, detail from The Triumph of Death |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (8) |
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Illustration. Jost Amman, The Peasant |
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142 | (2) |
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Illustration. The Pecking Mision |
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144 | (2) |
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) |
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146 | (26) |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (7) |
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First Day, Third Story [ The Three Rings] |
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155 | (2) |
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third Day, Tenth Story [ Locking the Devil Up in Hell] |
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157 | (3) |
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Seventh Day, Fourth Story [ The Woman Who Locked Her Husaband Out] |
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160 | (3) |
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Tenth Day, Tenth Story [ The Patient Griselda] |
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163 | (9) |
|
Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549) |
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172 | (11) |
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173 | (1) |
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First Day, Story 5 [ The Two Friars and a Shrewd Ferrywoman] |
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173 | (3) |
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Fourth Day, Story 32 [ The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull] |
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176 | (3) |
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Fourth Day, Story 36 [ The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad] |
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179 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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Eighth Day, Story 71 [ The Wife Who Came Black from the Dead] |
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181 | (2) |
|
Francis Petrarch (1304-1374) |
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183 | (29) |
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Letters on Familiar Matters |
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184 | (1) |
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To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro [ On Climbing Mt. Ventoux] |
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185 | (5) |
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from To Boccaccio [ On imitation] |
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190 | (6) |
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To Sister Deodata di Leno |
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192 | (4) |
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196 | (1) |
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During the Life of My Lady Laura |
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197 | (1) |
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(``O you who hear within these scattered verses'') |
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197 | (1) |
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(``It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale'') |
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197 | (1) |
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(``The old man takes his leave, white-haired and plate'') |
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198 | (1) |
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(``Alone and deep in thought I measure out'') |
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198 | (1) |
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(``She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze'') |
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198 | (1) |
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(``Clear, cool, sweet running water') |
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199 | (1) |
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(``From day to day my face and hair are changing'') |
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200 | (1) |
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After the Death of My Lady Laura |
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201 | (1) |
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(``O God! that lovely face, that gentle look'') |
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201 | (1) |
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(``If Love does not give me some new advice'') |
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201 | (1) |
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(``When I see coming down the sky Aurora'') |
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202 | (1) |
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(``That nightingale so tenderly lamenting'') |
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202 | (1) |
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Virgil: from Fourth Georgic |
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203 | (1) |
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(``O lovely little bird singing away'') |
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203 | (1) |
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(``I go my way lamenting those past times'') |
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204 | (1) |
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from 366 (``Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light'') |
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204 | (8) |
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Resonances: Petrarch and his Translators |
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206 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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207 | (2) |
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209 | |
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Fera son io di questo ombroso loco |
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208 | (1) |
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Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood |
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209 | (1) |
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petrarch's Canzoneirere 52, ``Diana never pleased her lover more'' |
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209 | (3) |
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Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition |
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212 | (19) |
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Louise Labe (c. 1520-1566) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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Lute, companion of my wretched state |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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Alas, what boots it that not long ago |
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214 | (1) |
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Do not reprach me, Ladies |
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215 | (1) |
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Michelgangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) |
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215 | (1) |
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Illustration. Michelangelo, Tomb o Giuliano de' Medici |
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216 | (1) |
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This comes of dangling from the ceiling |
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217 | (1) |
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My Lord, in your most gracious face |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (2) |
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Vittoria Colonia (1492-1616) |
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220 | |
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Between harsh rocks and violent wind |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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(``From fairest creatures we desire increase'') |
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221 | (1) |
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(``Look in thy galss, and tell the face thou viewest') |
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221 | (1) |
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(``Who will believe my verse in time to come'') |
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222 | (1) |
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(``Not marble nor the gilded monuments'') |
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222 | (1) |
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(``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'') |
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222 | (1) |
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(``Farewell; thou art too dear for my possessing'') |
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223 | (1) |
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(``Let me not to the mariage of true minds') |
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223 | (1) |
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(``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power'') |
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223 | (1) |
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(``In the old age black was not counted fair') |
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224 | (1) |
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(``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'') |
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224 | (1) |
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Jan Kochanozski (1530-1584) |
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225 | (1) |
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225 | (1) |
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(``Come, Heraclitues and Simonides'') |
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225 | (1) |
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(`Dear little Slavic Spphol, we had thought'') |
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226 | (1) |
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(``My dear delight, my Ursula and where') |
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226 | (1) |
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(``Where are thse gates through which so long ago') |
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227 | (1) |
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Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz (c. 1651-1695) |
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227 | (1) |
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She diavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself, which she calls bias |
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228 | (1) |
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She complains of her lot, suggesting her aversion to vice and justifyin her resort to the Muses |
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229 | (1) |
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She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings |
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229 | (1) |
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In which she visits moral censure on a rose |
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229 | (1) |
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She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears |
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230 | (1) |
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On the death of that most excellent lady, the Marquise de Mancera |
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230 | (1) |
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Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition |
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231 | (1) |
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
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231 | (16) |
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233 | (1) |
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233 | (1) |
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On New Principalities Acquired by Means of One's Own Arms and Ingenuity |
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234 | (2) |
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How a Prince Should Keep His Word |
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236 | (1) |
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How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs and How to Contend with It |
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237 | (2) |
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Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians |
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239 | (8) |
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Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier |
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242 | (5) |
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Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553) |
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247 | (40) |
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250 | (1) |
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250 | (2) |
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How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly |
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252 | (1) |
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How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe |
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253 | (1) |
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The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth |
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254 | (1) |
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How Gargantua Received His Name |
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255 | (1) |
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Concerning Gargantua's Childhood |
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256 | (1) |
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How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris |
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257 | (1) |
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How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome |
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258 | (2) |
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260 | (1) |
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How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates |
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261 | (4) |
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How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lerne and the People of Grandgousier's Country, Which Led to Great Wars |
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265 | (1) |
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How the Inhabitants of Lerne, at the Command of Their King Picrochole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepherds |
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266 | (1) |
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How a Monk of Seuilly Saved the Abbey-close |
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267 | (3) |
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How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad |
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270 | (1) |
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How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua |
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271 | (1) |
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Why Monks Are Shunned by the world |
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272 | (2) |
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How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep |
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274 | (1) |
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How the Monk Encouraged His Companions |
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275 | (1) |
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How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Theleme Built for the Monk |
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276 | (1) |
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How the Thelemites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed |
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277 | (1) |
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The Rules According to Which the Thelemites Lived |
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278 | (1) |
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How Pantagruel, When at Paris, Recieved a Letter from His Father |
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279 | (2) |
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How Pantagruel Found Panurge |
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281 | (3) |
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Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed |
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284 | (2) |
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Pantagruel Hears Some Gay Words |
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286 | (1) |
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Luis Vaz de Camoes (c. 1524-1580) |
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287 | (37) |
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Map. De Gama's Voyage, 1497-1498 |
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289 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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290 | (4) |
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Canto 4 [ King Manuel's dream] |
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294 | (8) |
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Canto 5 [ The curse of Adamastor] |
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302 | (13) |
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Canto 6 [ The storm; the voyagers reach India] |
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315 | (6) |
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Canto 7 [ Courage, heroes!] |
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321 | (3) |
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from The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497-1499) |
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322 | (2) |
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Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) |
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324 | (36) |
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325 | (2) |
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327 | (1) |
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Of the Power of the Imagination |
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328 | (7) |
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335 | (25) |
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Jean de Lery: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America |
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344 | (1) |
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Illustration. Mourning Tupi, from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil |
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345 | (6) |
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351 | (9) |
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Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
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360 | (125) |
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361 | (2) |
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Illustration. Gustave Dore, engraving for Cervantes' Don Quixote |
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363 | (1) |
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364 | (1) |
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The character of the knight |
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364 | (3) |
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367 | (4) |
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371 | (4) |
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An adventure on leaving the inn |
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375 | (4) |
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The knight's misfortunes continue |
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379 | (3) |
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The inquisition in the library |
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382 | (2) |
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384 | (3) |
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The adventure of the windmills |
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387 | (5) |
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The battle with the gallant Basque |
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392 | |
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A conversation with Sancho |
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385 | (14) |
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His meeting with the goatherds |
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399 | (1) |
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399 | (4) |
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The conclusion of the story |
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403 | (4) |
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The dead shepherd's verses |
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407 | (4) |
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The meeting with the Yanguesans |
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411 | (4) |
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A second conversation with Sancho |
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415 | (6) |
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A tremendous exploit achieved |
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421 | (8) |
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The liberation of the galley slaves |
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429 | (7) |
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436 | (5) |
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441 | (6) |
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447 | (1) |
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The knight, the squire and the bachelor |
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447 | (5) |
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452 | (2) |
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454 | (6) |
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Master Pedro the puppeteer |
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460 | (1) |
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460 | (6) |
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An extraordinary adventure at an inn |
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466 | (3) |
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Knight and squire return to their village |
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469 | (3) |
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472 | (3) |
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475 | (10) |
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Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the ``Quixote'' |
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479 | (6) |
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Felix Lope De Vega Y Carpio (1562-1635) |
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485 | (41) |
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486 | (40) |
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
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526 | (150) |
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Othello, the Moor of Venice |
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527 | (85) |
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612 | (64) |
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Aime Cesaire: from A Tempest |
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668 | (8) |
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676 | (14) |
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677 | (1) |
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Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed |
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678 | (1) |
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679 | (1) |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
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680 | (1) |
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681 | (1) |
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682 | (1) |
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682 | (2) |
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Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned |
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682 | (1) |
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee |
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682 | (1) |
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Batter my heart, three-person'd God |
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683 | (1) |
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I am a little world made cunningly |
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683 | (1) |
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Oh, to vex me, contaries meet in one |
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683 | (1) |
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions |
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684 | (4) |
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10: ``They find the disease to steal on insensibly'' |
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684 | (3) |
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from 17: ``Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die.'' |
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687 | (1) |
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688 | (2) |
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from The Second Prebend Sermon, on Psalm 63:7 (``Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice'') |
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688 | (2) |
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Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) |
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690 | (9) |
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692 | (1) |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband |
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692 | (1) |
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A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment |
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693 | (1) |
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children |
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693 | (1) |
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Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 |
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694 | (1) |
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On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet |
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695 | (1) |
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696 | (3) |
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699 | (64) |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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702 | (1) |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent |
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702 | (1) |
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702 | (61) |
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702 | (9) |
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711 | (20) |
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731 | (27) |
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758 | (5) |
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Mesoamerica: Before Columbus and After Cortes |
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763 | (10) |
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Illustration. Mayan relief of Lady Xoc |
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762 | (2) |
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764 | (1) |
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765 | (1) |
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Illustration. Aztec screenfold book |
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766 | (2) |
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Illustration. Mayan ballplayers |
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768 | (3) |
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Illustration. The Virgin of Guadalupe on a cactus |
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771 | (2) |
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from Popol Vuh: The Mayan Council Book (recorded mid-1550s) |
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773 | (23) |
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776 | (6) |
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[ Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld] |
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782 | (5) |
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[ The Final Creation of Humans] |
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787 | (2) |
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[ Migration and the Division of Languages] |
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789 | (3) |
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[ The Death of the Quiche Forefathers] |
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792 | (1) |
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[ Retrieving Writings from the East] |
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793 | (2) |
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795 | (1) |
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Songs of the Aztec Nobility (15th-16th centuries) |
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796 | (15) |
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Burnishing them as sunshot jades |
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798 | (1) |
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Flowers are our only adornment |
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798 | (1) |
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I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away |
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799 | (1) |
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Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, O Moctezuma |
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799 | (1) |
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I strike it up---here!---I, the singer |
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800 | (1) |
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from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered |
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801 | (2) |
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803 | (5) |
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In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower |
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808 | (1) |
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Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico |
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808 | (3) |
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``Make your beginning, you who sing'' |
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809 | (2) |
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|
The Conquest and Its Aftermath |
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811 | (66) |
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Illustration. Cortes accepting the Aztec's surrender |
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812 | (1) |
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) |
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813 | (2) |
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from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503) |
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815 | (6) |
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Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1492-1584) |
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821 | (1) |
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from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain |
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822 | (20) |
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from The Aztec-Spanish Dialogues of 1524 |
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842 | (8) |
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Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon (c. 1587-c. 1645) |
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850 | (1) |
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from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain |
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850 | (9) |
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856 | (3) |
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Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566) |
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859 | (1) |
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860 | (4) |
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Sor Juana Inez de La Cruz (c. 1651-1695) |
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864 | (1) |
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from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of the Divine Narcissus |
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865 | (12) |
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The Conquest and Its Aftermath |
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873 | (4) |
| Bibliography |
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877 | (8) |
| Credits |
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885 | (6) |
| Index |
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891 | |
