It was inspired by the Fables oftheancientGreek writer, Aesop, and by amockepicpoemin Latin by Nivardus, written in Ghent in around 1150, called Ysengrimus. wdl.org wdl.org 它的灵感来自于古希腊作家伊索 (Aesop) 的《伊索寓言》以及尼瓦尔达斯 (Nivardus) 1150 年左右在根特创作的名为《伊桑格...
Written codes of law were the earliest form of prose and were appearing by the end of the 7th century, when knowledge of reading and writing was becoming more widespread. No prose writer is known earlier thanPherecydes of Syros(c.550bc), who wrote about the beginnings of the world; but...
Some of the earliest Vedic texts are believed to have been written around 4,000 years ago. However, the Hindus claim that these stories can be traced back hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years earlier, existing as part of an oral tradition that like many other things, had been passed...
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The causes of the Trojan War are unclear; the Achaeans devastated a rich city. This Greek campaign is celebrated in the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. A rapid decline of the Helladic culture set in at the end of the 13th century, marked by the abandonment of the palace at Pylos ...
The causes of the Trojan War are unclear; the Achaeans devastated a rich city. This Greek campaign is celebrated in the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. A rapid decline of the Helladic culture set in at the end of the 13th century, marked by the abandonment of the palace at Pylos ...
When I ride the bike I use an app called Zwift, which I have written about here in the past, which gamifies the whole exercise thing a bit. Ride On! I chose it mostly because Potshot, who actually owns a real bicycle, something I haven’t had since my last one was stolen when I ...
At least 18 of her epigrams, written in the Doric dialect, survive in the Greek Anthology; an additional six are doubtfully attributed to her. Even so, we have more complete poems by Anyte than by any other Greek woman, since the nine books of Sappho survive only in fragments.She was ...
The Firehose of Honor in Wintergrasp I mentioned in a previous post about gearing up my hunter, thatweek of work for welfare epics, using honor gained in Wintergrasp. That didn’t get him all the possible gear and upgrades, but it came pretty close, boosting him up past 4,400 in gear...
educate, we see a strong tendency to use these translations for the development of Estonian national identity by comparing the Estonian epic "Kalevipoeg" to Homer's epics and translating pieces from Tacitus' "Germania" as early references to Estonia and thereby extending Estonia's written history....