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... a style so that younger readers may follow the story. The Iliad for Boys and Girls is a retelling of Homer’s Iliad, centred around the events of the siege of Troy during the final year. (Summary by Lizzie Driver)...

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... poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, multiple authors. The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Iliun, or Troy, by the Greeks. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.)...

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...In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices and his brother, Eteocles, decided to rule alternately, switching at the end of every year. However, at the e...

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...nd the Christian Old Testament. The book is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when Jews were deported and exiled to Babylon following the Siege of Jerusalem of 597 BC. The book revolves around the figure of Daniel, an Israelite who becomes an adviser to Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of Babylon from 605 BC - 562 BC. The book has two distinct parts: a series of six n...

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... 25 years. The main historical events that are addressed are the bloodless occupation of Buda, the seat of the Hungarian kings, in 1541, and the 1552 Siege of Eger (now in Northern Hungary) by the Turks that forms the major topic of the novel. The story also addresses some other historical topics like the impact of the Reformation, the discord between Hungarians and the Ho...

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... of Harlech or The March of the Men of Harlech is a song and military march which is traditionally said to describe events during the seven year long siege of Harlech Castle between 1461 and 1468. The music was first published without words in 1794, but it is said to be a much earlier folk air. The song was published in Volume II of the 1862 collection Welsh Melodies with ...

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...la Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Boer War. She moved to Mafeking with her husband at the start of the war, where he was aide-de-camp to Colonel Robert Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell asked her to leave Mafeking for ...

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...lief Of olives and cypress, breasts, birds, Stinging and perspiration’s siege, Roots climbing out of centuries. P Beauty, the wedding is over a... ...often felt Milan’s shabby antiquity. It was a lesson in futility. So many sieges: 1497, 1500, 1512...military engagements that disrupted every fiber ... ...d every fiber of living. (There is nothing like the filth of a city under siege.) During the last siege, in 1515, the cannonades drove me out of the... ...was air space to lessen the danger of plague. Fifty thousand dead in ’09. Sieges...death... Milan...all focused on my cenasolo...my Maria delle Graz... ...orence had more patina. I rambled on about Milan and my paintings and the siege and Milan’s bombardment and deaths—pell-mell thoughts. Francesco bro...

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...by chance with Betis, that commanded therein, of whose valour (during the siege) he had felt wonderfull and strange exploits, being then alone, forsa... ...om that his body which forlorne doth lie. Bertrand of Glesquin died at the siege of the castle of Rancon, neere unto Puy in Avergne: the besieged yee... ...lish-men in the Castle of Commercie, and Bartholmew of Bones, who at that siege commaunded as Chiefe having caused the greatest part of the Castle t... ... that might not entertaine an Armie. The Lord Constable Momorancie at the siege of Pavia, having beene appointed to passe over the river Tesine, and ... ...epe thorow a spike-hole, he was cut in peeces by the assailants. At which siege likewise, that horror and feare is very memorable, which so did cboa... ... by offspring he were a stranger), that during our first troubles, at the siege of Roane, the said Prince being advertised by the Queene-mother of a... ...e our batterie played against the towne (for it was, at what time we laid siege to Roane) with the said Lord great Almoner and another Bishop by his ... ...ed by Cæsar in the Citie of Alexia, resolved to sustaine the famine of the siege, with the bodies of old men, women, and other persons unserviceable ... ...King Robert beleagring a Citie, and leaving secretly stolne away from the siege to Orleans, there to solemnize the feasts of Saint Aignan, as he was...

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................................................... 11 CHAPTER I: BEYOND THE SIEGE AND THE RETURN, OR THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY ACCORDING TO ULYSSES .... ... particular train of thought. ***** 15 CHAPTER I BEYOND THE SIEGE AND THE RETURN, OR THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY ACCORDING TO ULYSSES ... ...ute and eloquent paper entitled “Oltre l’assedio e il ritorno” {Beyond the siege and the returning}, found on pages 123-133 in the volume of the Act... ...lopment of western literature: the second is that, beyond the theme of the siege and the return, “tertium non datur” {there is no third possibility}... ...rception of nothingness in the end, man has no chance other than to plan a siege on life, or to console himself with the epic of the return to nothi... ...f with the epic of the return to nothingness, after having experienced the siege. I don’t believe that this is the second Homer’s thought, the on... ...cci by saying that this, in my opinion, is the possible alternative to the siege and the return. Clearly, the alternative that I propose comes ne... ... of expectations that assail his life just as the arrogant Suitors place a siege on his house, with Penelope as their accomplice. The Suitors say... ...and especially Penelope’s heart. It took ten years of keeping Troy under siege and then the cunning idea of the wooden horse to be able to break d...

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...l the rest will turn monstrously into Alexander the Greats ordering their sieges of Tyre in Phoenicia in their great pique that they, the Sons of Go...

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...d, and self-righteous - but isolationists are introverted and schizoid. Theirs is siege mentality. Interventionists are missionary. They feel omni... ... Narcissism is frequently comorbid with paranoia. Americans cultivate and nurture a siege mentality which leads to violent acting out and unbridled ... ...e, Orhan was introduced to Europe's modern weaponry, its superior tactics of laying siege, and its internecine politics by his Byzantine masters. Af...

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...he city is set on fire -- Capture of the emperor -- Horrors which followed the siege -- 75,000 dead bodies in the streets -- The torture of Guatemozin... ...eet, which they had so ingeniously captured, sailed again for Zipangu and laid siege to its chief city, which they succeeded in capturing after a six ... ...r use upon the lake about the city of Mexico. Thus provided for renewal of the siege of Mexico, and with a determination to accomplish the subjugation... .... A BATTLE UPON THE LAKE. Cortez having completed his preparations for another siege of the capital, by having provided himself with an immense supply... ...dron was ready and the sails were spread for crossing the lake to enter upon a siege of the capital, that an attack of any pretension was made. Guatem... ...olested to their gods, for, having destroyed their fleet, Cortez now began the siege in earnest. He divided his army into three divisions, under comma... ... proper respect the noble ladies who were with him. HORRORS WHICH FOLLOWED THE SIEGE. The capture of the Emperor and the deplorable straits to which t... ...that had not been characterized by some furious battle. During this unexampled siege, it is estimated that not less than 140,000 Mexicans perished, wh... ... scarcely a Spaniard would have been left to tell the story of this unexampled siege. For three whole days, all the surviving Mexicans and the allies ...

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...re activating their influence on the Arabs and on us. They keep us under siege, constantly exposed to a threat of 144 of 263 Interview Wit... ...nal ‘Masada syndrome’ (Masada was a fortress held by Jews that was under siege by the Romans in the first century A.C., who’s inhabitants preferred... ... be until we discover the Creator – he is the one who is holding us under siege. In the land of Israel, he surrounded us with Romans, and in exile h...

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...ought/ in the Hamilton mechanics/ with residual spectrum/ from the loxodromic siege/ had pull out the hart invertor / and in a Riemann geometry / had...

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...llaborated with their Moslem minority during the Ustashe regime). Besieged by this siege mentality, the back to the literal wall, desperate and pho... ...was a strong motive, commensurate with Serb "the world is against us" paranoia and siege mentality. Milosevic, visibly ill at ease, surfed this tid...

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...lief Of olives and cypress, breasts, birds, Stinging and perspiration’s siege, Roots climbing out of centuries. P Beauty, the wedding is over a...

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...towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to b...

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...towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to b...

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...t ‘em!” “Aye, but does Lord Ranulf want to attack the castle and lay it under siege or give a warning and attack their marketplace?” “I don’t know,... ...peicans wish to launch a surprise attack either on the castle to lay it under siege or to attack the market and kill innocents.” King Patrick grima...