author: gilbert murray

Oedipus, King of Thebes

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

A History of Ancient Greek Literature: Complete Edition

... characteristic Greek method was frank recognition and regulation. A pent-up force becomes dangerous; let all natural impulses be given free play in such ways and on such occasions as will do least damage. There were the strictest laws ...

Yale Classics (Vol. 1)

... Hellas. Now both the Homeric epics and the Egyptian monuments show us Egypt and Greece in contact in the Greek prehistoric period. But it does not exactly follow that the prehistoric Greeks would adopt Egyptian gods; or that the ...

Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 1)

... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...

Yale Classics - The Greatest Works of Ancient Greece

... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...

The Complete Works of Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey & The Hymns

... wrath against the Immortals, for now she contrives a mighty deed, to destroy the feeble tribes of earth-born men by withholding the seed under the earth. Thereby the honours of the Gods are minished, and fierce is her wrath, nor mingles ...

Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 1)

... XXX. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee! The bee awaked—with anger wild The bee awaked, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick ...

Yale Classics (Vol. 1)

... XXX. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee! The bee awaked—with anger wild The bee awaked, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick ...

Oedipus, King of Thebes

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Gender and Sex in Counseling and Psychotherapy

... roommate. He had recurrent images of caressing and fondling the other young man. When he masturbated, images of his roommate kept intruding even though he tried to focus on women. He was becoming increasingly panic stricken, especially ...

Yale Classics (Vol. 1)

... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...

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