Love, or amor as the Romans called it, is universal. Time has not diminished the ability of ancient love poems to speak to every reader who has loved and lost. The authors featured in this volume of amores (love affairs), Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Sulpicia, and Ovid, have left us an enduring legacy and record of their passions, joys and sorrows, loves and losses, faithfulness and betrayal. Their poems were written during the latter half of the 1st century BCE and the early years of the 1st century CE when love poetry reached its climax in Rome. This selection of poems, which is meant...

We know the moral of the tortoise and the hare or the meaning of "sour grapes" because of the enduring legacy of the fables of Aesop told to generation after generation of children. While fables have deep roots in the European tradition, these oral narratives were widespread in the ancient world and have parallels in the Near East, India, and Africa. Most are short stories about anthropomorphized animals that contain morals about life and human nature. But the fable collections, which were often written down only centuries after their first telling, contain a wide variety of other material,...

Skye's a little bunny with a big problem-she doesn't know how she fits into the world. When her brother says she's too small and ordinary, she goes on an adventure, and, by helping others, she learns her special place in the world.