Author: Caius Valerius Catullus
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: catullus, valerius, caius, carmina
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $27.75
ISBN-10: 0559076630
ISBN-13: 9780559076633
Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton, R.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., etc., etc., etc., and the Prose Portion,- Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers. AN EXCERPT FROM THE FOREWORD: A scholar lively, remembered to me, that Catullus translated word for word, is an anachronism, and that a literal English rendering in the nineteenth century could be true to the poet’s letter, but false to his spirit. I was compelled to admit that something of this is true; but it is not the whole truth. "Consulting mod
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullu
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: catullus
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-02-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1103381601
ISBN-13: 9781103381609
Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 84-54 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams. All exemplify a strict technique of studied composition inherited from early Greek lyric and the poets of Alexandria. In his work we can trace his unhappy love for a woman he calls Lesbia; the death of his brother; his visits to Bithynia; and his emotional friendships and enmities at Rome. For con
Author: Valerius Geist
Publisher: Krause Publications
Keywords: americans, last, pronghorns, country, antelope
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 087349279X
ISBN-13: 9780873492799
Valerius Geist, one of North America’s premier wildlife research biologists, shares his common-sense insights into the Great Plains’ pronghorn antelope. The pronghorn is the last surviving larger mammal of an era when the American plains was teeming with more species of wildlife than the African plains. Geist, professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, is a specialist in animal behavior. Antelope Country explains how the fleet pronghorn was nearly wiped off the plains along with its bigger brother, the American bison, in the late 1800s. Geist also explores the pronghorn’s return t
Author: Valerius Geist
Publisher: The Blackburn Press
Keywords: wilds, northern, man, sheep, mountain
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1930665474
ISBN-13: 9781930665477
Originally published in 1975. In Mountain Sheep and Man in the Northern Wilds Valerius Geist, a renowned scientist, sensitive observer, and natural storyteller here recounts his experiences among, and reflections upon, the magnificent bighorned sheep of the Canadian wilderness, where he lived and worked year ’round. The book presents popular science in the best sense -- beautifully written, unmistakably accurate, innovative and thought provoking. In the book, Dr. Geist focuses on cold climates to study animal behavior and its implications for man. He makes valuable contributions to
Author: Valerius Geist
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: ecology, behaviour, evolution, world, deer
Number of Pages: 421
Published: 1998-09
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0811704963
ISBN-13: 9780811704960
Detailed, concise information on the deer family’s evolution, food habits, reproduction, anti-predator behavior, social behavior, dominance displays, and ecology makes DEER OF THE WORLD the most complete, up-to-date reference available on these intriguing animals. Each species’ development is traced from prehistory to the present. 200 drawings.
Author: Valerius Maximus
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: ancient, rome, tales, thousand, deeds, sayings, memorable
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0872206742
ISBN-13: 9780872206748
Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as an engaging introduction to the cultural and moral history of ancient Rome. Valerius’ "thousand tales" are arranged thematically in ninety-one chapters that cover nearly every aspect of life in the ancient world, including such wide-ranging topics as military discipline, child rearing, and women lawyers. As a whole, the work gives the reader fascinating insights into what it felt like to be an ancient Roman, what the ancient Romans really believe
Author: John Briscoe
Publisher: B.G.Teubner GmbH
Keywords: romanorum, teubneriana, latin, graecorum, scriptorum, maximus, vol, bibliotheca, valerius
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 3519019167
ISBN-13: 9783519019169
