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The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century
ISBN: 9780486246093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. If a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies. Trees felled in the wrong season breed termites. If eels are drowned in wine, those who drink it get a loathing for liquor.
These and similar flights of fancy were articles of faith in the twelfth century -- the era of the fascinating Latin prose bestiary translated in this volume. The translator is T. H. White, author of The Once and Future King and outstanding medievalist. Of The Book of Beasts, White writes: "No Latin prose bestiary has ever before been printed, even in Latin. This is the first and... If a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies. Trees felled in the wrong season breed termites. If eels are drowned in wine, those wh...
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Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
ISBN: 9780195010596 / Angielski / Miękka / 1956 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus.
Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus.
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