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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 40 0 Browse Search
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) 22 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 18 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 16 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 16 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 8 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 6 0 Browse Search
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) 4 0 Browse Search
Xenophon, Cyropaedia (ed. Walter Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz) 4 0 Browse Search
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Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz), Book 1, Addressed partially to Cynthia, partially to third party (search)
Addressed partially to Cynthia, partially to third party ARIADNEfrom Knossos in Crete, daughter of King Minos, she gave Theseus the ball of twine whereby he could escape the labyrinth, after killing the Minotaur. Theseus took her with him, but left her on the island of Naxos as she slept. (Cf. Strauss' opera). She was transported to Olympos by Bacchus. ANDROMEDAdaughter of King Cepheus and Cassiopeia of Ethiopia, was chained to a rock by the sea to be eaten by a sea monster; rescued by Perseus. EDONIANa Thracian tribe that worshipped Bacchus. APIDANUSriver in Thessaly. LIBERsame as Bacchus, Dionysus, god of wine and revelry. ARGUShundred-eyed creature commanded by Juno to guard Io, Inachus' daughter, after Jupiter had an affair with her. Juno had been sleeping; Jupiter went down to earth, placed a cloud overhead, and began having sex with Io. Juno awoke, saw the suspicious cloud and zoomed down, whisking the cloud aside. Jupiter, seeing the cloud gone, quickly changes
Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz), Book 1, Addressed to Tullus, nephew of Lucius Volcacius Tullus, consul 33 and proconsul of Asia 30-29 (search)
Addressed to Tullus, nephew of Lucius Volcacius Tullus, consul 33 and proconsul of Asia 30-29 See poems 1, 14, and 22. RHIPAEAN MOUNTAINSa mythical range to the far north. MEMNONking of Ethiopia. PACTOLUSa river in Lydia formerly rich in gold. Really, I'm not afraid of exploring the Adriatic with you, Tullus, or to set sail on the Aegean. We could climb the Rhipaean mountains together! and go even further, to the land of Memnon, but the words and embraces of my girl make me linger, her earnest prayers and rapidly changing color. She pierces every night like a flame, complaining she is abandoned, no gods exist. She is already denying she is mine, making threats like a spurned girlfriend to a graceless man. I can't endure a single hour of these complaints! To hell with him who can be flippant in the face of love! Is it worth so much to me to know Athens' sophistications, to see the ancient splendors of Asia, when Cynthia launches such invective toward my ship and disfigures her f