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... literary and religious ideals of China - The Book of Zoroaster - The teachings of Zoroaster - The Koran- Mohammed - What the Koran teaches - The Talmud . VI . GREEK MYTH AND THE POETS Words and phrases - The great god Pan - Mercury's ...
... literary and religious ideals of China - The Book of Zoroaster - The teachings of Zoroaster - The Koran- Mohammed - What the Koran teaches - The Talmud . VI . GREEK MYTH AND THE POETS Words and phrases - The great god Pan - Mercury's ...
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... literary activity , and about the same time Roman writers began to create original work in the manner of the Athenians . Per- haps the most famous literary achievement at the beginning of Alexandria's literary history was the ...
... literary activity , and about the same time Roman writers began to create original work in the manner of the Athenians . Per- haps the most famous literary achievement at the beginning of Alexandria's literary history was the ...
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... literary language . Long after the Roman armies had occupied the whole of the Grecian Peninsula , the cultured Roman read Greek books , bought from Alexandrian copyists . The only parallel to the recognition of Greek as the sole worthy ...
... literary language . Long after the Roman armies had occupied the whole of the Grecian Peninsula , the cultured Roman read Greek books , bought from Alexandrian copyists . The only parallel to the recognition of Greek as the sole worthy ...
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... literary work , a form of pride which is not common to - day . As no copyright law was then in existence , books were copied and re - copied immediately upon publication.1 Professional writers in ancient Rome depended for their ...
... literary work , a form of pride which is not common to - day . As no copyright law was then in existence , books were copied and re - copied immediately upon publication.1 Professional writers in ancient Rome depended for their ...
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... literary monks . The great Charlemagne , for example , granted the rights of hunting to certain monasteries in order that the monks might provide themselves with material for the covers of their books from the skin of the deer ...
... literary monks . The great Charlemagne , for example , granted the rights of hunting to certain monasteries in order that the monks might provide themselves with material for the covers of their books from the skin of the deer ...
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Achilles Æschylus ancient Andrew Lang Apocrypha Apollo Athens beauty Bible born Brahmanism called century B.C. Christ Christian Confucius Dante death Divine Divine Comedy Don Quixote drama early earth English Eschylus Euripides faith famous father Fredk Gallery glory goddess gods Gospel Greece Greek H. A. Guerber hath heart heaven Hebrew Hector heroes Hollyer Homer human Iliad J. W. WATERHOUSE Jewish Jews Jupiter King knights Koran language Latin legends literary literature living Lord LORD LEIGHTON mediæval Middle Ages modern Moses myths National noble Odyssey Old Testament papyrus passage philosophy Photo poem poet poetry priests prophets prose religion religious Renaissance Rischgitz Collection Roman Rome sacred says scholars Scriptures servant Shakespeare songs Sophocles soul spirit story teaching thee things thou tion to-day translation Troy Ulysses unto Vatican verse Virgil W. A. Mansell wife wisdom words writing written wrote Zoroaster