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Turmoil hits the Roman Empire when its current emperor dies and his two sons Saturninus and Bassianus start to fight over the throne. As a matter of the dead emperor's apparent wishes, his brother Titus is offered the throne but he refuses and lets Saturninus take the coveted seat. After coming to power, the new emperor desires his brothers betrothed as his wife and Titus agrees but ends up killing one of his own children when disagreements occur as to who is in the right. The sons of Titus then plot to rape their own sister so that such a thing will not happen and Titus, her father, will be forced to take the situation into his own hands but ends up going to further extremes.

Taking place shortly after the expulsion of the Tarquin kings, the play opens up by focusing on the tension with the lords who have been withholding grain from the commoners. A prominent general, Marcius, sees the commoners as useless since they did not help expel the kings and when the people rise up to revolt against the new Roman government a new player gets elected to a prominent role and given the name Coriolanus. When the new lord returns home, his mother who is excited by his success convinces him to run or and win one of the consul seats but this creates quite the tension with the former allies as they seek to dethrone him.

Using the template laid out by the poems of Theocritus, Virgil makes a Roman version that lays out several mythic and political revolutions that make it quite different than the Greek counterpart. The image of the singing farmers and the embracing or suffering through revolutionary love and the happiness or unhappiness is causes.

A poem written in four books that focus on the ways and life of the agriculturalists of the ancient Greeks. These poems open up with a prayer to the agricultural deities of ancient Greece and then expanding later into a philosophical work dealing with how the agricultural life of the typical farmer is something that should model the lives of all humans in all times.

The role of government and whether it is required was a great topic of discussion around the revolt against the French nobility at the time this book was written. The argument focuses around whether the idea of law and good conscious is written within each of us and that we all know how government should act and be carried out. The work then goes over the various forms of government and of them all which would fit the proposed "Social Contract" the best. Each as its own merits.

Prayer can have great effects if we are devoted to spending the time on our knees before our Father God. Throughout the history of the Bible, the greatest men of those ancient truths were all men who were willing to pray to affect change in their world and to draw closer to their Lord and Saviour. This book shows how all these great men approached prayer and the changes it can bring out our own lives.

Christ did not come for the righteous but for the sinner and He calls us to pray like he did to the Father in a continual basis. Bounds in this work outlines what kind of heaven and earth shattering effects prayer can have from the individual person to the very ministry that someone may be trying to perform. There is no limit or bounds to what kind of power to faith prayer can have.

Discovering that the ruler of Antioch is in an incestuous relationship with his daughter, Pericles, the young ruler of Tyre, flees the city rather than answer a riddle and reveal the disturbing relationship. On his journeys he weds the beautiful Thaisa and she apparently dies in childbirth at sea. When the young child is separated from her father, she grows up to be a beautiful maiden that teaches virtue to ladies in Mytilene but her father wants to rescue her from the powers that have enslaved her to a brothel that may endanger her.

The main character, Timon, throws a lavish party at which he starts to hand out money as though it is nothing giving it away to anyone for almost any reason. When the money is gone and those that fooled him out of his gold come crying for more along with those that Timon was indebted to, he flees the city and finds a treasure trove. When those in the city discover he is rich again, they all come calling but the now misanthropic Timon is reluctant to show mercy.

Too often we think of prayer in only the human dimension: as a means of edification, or spiritual empowerment, but prayer in fact is a mostly spiritual thing where it impacts many different aspects of life and spirit. Bounds expounds on this brilliantly and uses both Christ and the Holy Spirit as examples of and the expositors or our prayers to the Father.

Two lifelong friends, the kings of Sicilia and Bohemia are visiting each other when the Bohemian king wishes to return home. The Sicilian king is unable to convince him to stay so sends his wife who convinces him. Suspecting infidelity, the king of Sicilia imprisons his wife and doesn't speak to his friend again or the daughter he refused to acknowledge as his own to his own despair.

The king Cymbeline had two sons that were lost a long time ago. When he has a daughter as a last child who becomes enamoured and married to Roman official in his court. When Cymbeline refuses to pay the tribute to the Roman emperor, the wrath of the Romans comes down on the vassal king of Britain. Cymbeline must deal with this while also dealing with her murderous wife who is trying to secure the throne for her own children from a different marriage to secure her bloodline.

Helena, a Spanish citizen of low birth becomes infatuated with Bertram who shows no interest in her whatsoever. Hearing that the King of France is sick, Bertram goes to France to offer his services to the soon to be King. Helena follows him and offers her skills as a healer and heals the French king in return for marriage to someone of her choosing. She selects Bertram and he soon goes to war saying that he will love her if she can only bear him a child.

The Duchy that Duke Senior was lord of has been taken by Fredrick and Senior is exiled into the Forest of Arden where all kinds of interesting people live. In order to live peacefully, the original Duke's daughter flees into the forest to reunite with her father and gets caught in a wild love fiasco in the process.

In this famous work from the origins of Greek thought, the hero Oedipus is sent to his death bed as an infant when an oracle predicts that he will kill his kingly father, and marry his mother. Being unable to kill him, the father passes him off to a shepherd who adopts him to another royal family. Believing this new family to be his true family, Oedipus now receives the same oracle as his father and believes he will perform this act on his adopted patron. Fleeing he comes across his real father, kills him and marries his grieving widow. The story that follows is one of the discovery of the truth and the terrible price that it demands.

When two identical twins are separated at birth, many mistaken things can happen when they are inadvertently reunited by chance meeting. Many people mistake the two with each other and many false accusations, beatings and charges are almost laid on the wrong twin.

When the character Sly is fooled into thinking he is a nobleman the true nobleman than has this play performed for his diversion. In the play itself the main characters Petruchio and Katherina are engaged in a relationship that Katherina wants no part in. Petruchio then uses some psychological torments to "tame" her into becoming a willing bride. This play has caused quite the controversy in recent days and is sure to be put to the test to come.

A Shakespearen play about a Moorish general in a Venetian army that is forced to deal with deception and jealousy when a younger man is promoted above a loyal officer Iago. As the group arrives in Cyprus to find a Turkish fleet destroyed, the group must deal with the oncoming threat from the opposing army and the deadly battles within.

In an age when deism was taking a strong foothold, Butler argued for the return to an orthodox view of God. He did not agree that God was detached and separated from the world, or that Jesus was more God than man, but ratherthat God was personal and Christ was exactly as he is seen in the orthodox doctrine of Protestant Christianity.

Aristotle's Ethics and Politics are the main sources of philosophy that he was known for. In Ethics he argued for the view that virtues are what make up the ethical behaviour of any person. In order to be a "good person" ethics must be present in the form of virtues. Meanwhile in Politics, he argues that the city or state must come before family which comes before the individual. The idea that the need s of the many outweighs the needs of the few had its roots in Aristotle's philosophy of politics.

The magnum opus of Plato's writings that detail out the utopia that Socrates had thought of when debating with his contemporaries in ancient Greece. While many people have criticized these views over the years, these ideas have sparked many ideas of what makes government work and what does not as well as laying down the foundations for our own democratic systems in the present day. Socrates has many things to say about people and society in general making it a very enlightening piece of work.

After the brutal war with the Trojans and the mourning of the death of Achilles, the heroic king Ulysses sets course for home but in the process insults the god Poseidon. The angry god causes Ulysses and his crew to wander the sea for years as they get tempted by banished gods, fight off mighty monsters and even descend to the gates of the Greek hell, Tartarus, to rescue a wayward crew member. Meanwhile those in Ulysses kingdom try to court his forlorn wife who eagerly await her husband's return.

One of the greatest poetic epics ever written, the tale of the Iliad tells the tale of the great war of the Greeks against the Trojans to recover a runaway bride of a great greek king. The main hero, Achilles, goes along for the glory and servitude of the war and ends up showing just how human this supposedly immortal hero can be.

The main text of this volume outlines the funerary rights of the ancient Egyptians. The funeral process for this ancient empire was long and drawn out but allowed for the soul, or Ka, to make its way to the land of the dead and back again to one day be resurrected. Also included are tablets that outline letters from various officials of missions and conquests of the Egyptians as well as stories of their gods and hymns and litanies outlining their religious beliefs.

The dragon has always been a mysterious creature that has captivated young and old people for hundreds of years. In this work the history of the dragon and where the story emerged from come to light. Delving into the ancient stories all over the world the descriptions and influence the story of the dragon had on the ancient cultures will enlighten anyone's thinking on this topic.

Difficult to read but powerful, this book is a sequel and continuation of Ascent of Mount Carmel that described the journey of the soul to union with God. This book offers encouragement that we can use to make our way through our own dark nights in our pursuit of a personal relationship with the true God. Poetic and haunting, this book is a profound work of Christian mysticism.

A hauntingly powerful piece about the soul's journey to the place of God, known in this work as Mount Carmel. Although this book refers to the Dark Night that the soul must pass through, it also refers to many situations and realities that the soul must pass through in its conflict with this world and union with God.

Desiring to go on a whaling expedition to make a bit of money, Ishmael ignorantly signs up for the crew captained by Ahab. Once out to sea, the mysterious captain emerges proclaiming his desire to seek revenge on the white sperm whale that took his leg. Ishmael protests but is put in place by the god-like Ahab. The boat veers for the Pacific Ocean to catch this whale and Ishmael must put his hunting skills to the test.