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The rape of Helen, from the Greek of Coluthus, with miscellaneous notes.
Colluthus, of Lycopolis.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Books
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The myths of Greece and Rome : their stories signification and origin / [H.A. Guerber].
Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline), 1859-1929.Date: 1909- Pictures
Achilles lamenting over the body of Patroclus, accompanied by Greek elders and women. Engraving by G. Venzo after G. Hamilton.
Hamilton, Gavin, 1723-1798.Date: [between 1790? and 1810?]Reference: 2803403i- Pictures
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Achilles dragging the body of Hector around Troy. Mezzotint after G. Hamilton, 1794.
Hamilton, Gavin, 1723-1798.Date: 12th May 1794Reference: 11596i- Pictures
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Achilles cutting off a lock of his hair in mourning over the body of Patroclus. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1660, after A. van Diepenbeeck.
Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675.Date: [1660]Reference: 38319i- Books
Medea : and other plays / Euripides ; translated with an introduction by Philip Vellacott.
Euripides.Date: [1963], ©1963- Books
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The New history of the Trojan Wars, and Troy's destruction. In four books. Containing I. An account of the birth, life, death, and glorious actions of the mighty Hercules of Greece. II. The renownedand valiant deeds of the most famous hector of Troy. III. The rape of fair Helen of Greece, together with the last destruction of Troy by the stratagem of the wooden horse. IV. The arrival of Brute in Britain, and howheconquered Albion and his giants, and built Troynovant, now London. To which is added, the siege of Troy, a tragi-comedy, as it has been often acted with great applause.
Date: 1800- Pictures
Achilles dragging the body of Hector around Troy. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1766, after G. Hamilton.
Hamilton, Gavin, 1723-1798.Date: 1766Reference: 2536009i- Pictures
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The sacrifice of Iphigenia or Polyxena: the victim is about to have her throat cut and her blood caught in a bowl when a god with a drawn sword appears. Etching by G. de Lairesse.
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.Reference: 42747i- Pictures
Achilles embracing the dead body of Patroclus, surrounded by women on the left and Greek generals on the right. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1767, after Gavin Hamilton.
Hamilton, Gavin, 1723-1798.Date: [1767?]Reference: 3063625i- Pictures
Achilles embracing the dead body of Patroclus, surrounded by women on the left and Greek generals on the right. Engraving by D. Cunego, ca. 1769, after G. Hamilton.
Hamilton, Gavin, 1723-1798.Date: [1769?]Reference: 2856157i- Books
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The argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius, in four books, by Francis Fawkes: the whole revised, corrected, and completed, by his coadjutor and editor; who has annexed a translation of Coluthus's Greek poem on the rape of Helen, or the origin of the Trojan war; with notes.
Apollonius, Rhodius.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
Hippocrates now : the 'father of medicine' in the Internet age / Helen King.
King, Helen, 1957-Date: 2020- Pictures
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Hector reproaching Paris for not fighting in the Trojan War. Stipple engraving by G.S. and J.G. Facius after Angelica Kauffman, 1788.
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807.Date: Jan.y 1st 1788Reference: 2855888i- Pictures
Perseus with the head of Medusa turning into stone Polydectes and his army. Engraving by C. Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1525.
Polidoro, da Caravaggio, approximately 1495-approximately 1543.Date: [between 1600 and 1609?]Reference: 2475262i- Pictures
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Laocoön attacked by a sea snake. Engraving attributed to P. Lombard.
Date: 1697Reference: 11385i- Pictures
Polyphemus playing the pipes on a mountain top; in the foreground, nymphs in the country. Engraving by E. Baudet after N. Poussin, 169-.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Date: [between 1694 and 1700?]Reference: 3043865i- Pictures
Andromache lamenting over the dead body of her husband Hector, surrounded by grieving members of the Trojan court. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1764, after Gavin Hamilton.
Hamilton, Gavin, 1723-1798.Date: [1764?]Reference: 3063626i- Pictures
Laocoön and his sons are attacked by snakes. Colour aquatint with etching by J.G. Prestel and/or M.K. Prestel, 1783, after R. La Fage.
La Fage, Raymond, 1656-1684.Date: [1783?]Reference: 2477414i- Books
The Amazons : lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world / Adrienne Mayor.
Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-Date: [2014]- Books
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The Greeks and Trojans vvarres : Caus'd by that wanton Trojan knight Sir Paris who ravishes Hellen and her to Troy carries the Greeks in revenge (and to fetch her again) a mighty great army do quickly ordain. Imagine you see them besiedging old Troy, which after ten years they at th'last destroy, with a fit allusion, before the conclusion. Tune is, A conscionable caveat.
Crouch, Humphrey, active 1635-1671Date: [1650?]- Pictures
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Five tombs containing skeletons of historical exemplars of wisdom, war, beauty, strength and riches; an allegory of change, decay and death. Engraving after A.P. van de Venne, ca. 1655.
Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662.Date: 1655Reference: 26260i- Books
Heroicus ; Gymnasticus ; Discourses 1 and 2 / Philostratus ; edited and translated by Jeffrey Rusten, Jason König.
Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd centuryDate: 2014