The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its ThemesKregel Academic - 639 páginas Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C. S. Lewis. |
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... death of Achilles and the fall of Troy via the wooden horse until the Odyssey . Homer's story moves quickly , with a simple , direct style . He assumes the desire of the gods for order , but they are marginal in the Iliad . 1 The ...
... death of Achilles and the fall of Troy via the wooden horse until the Odyssey . Homer's story moves quickly , with a simple , direct style . He assumes the desire of the gods for order , but they are marginal in the Iliad . 1 The ...
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... death by drink- ing the fatal hemlock . He did not seek to escape , dying in 399 B.c. I. J. Stone argues that his snobbery doomed him . He showed no compassion for Athens or for his shrew- ish wife , Xanthippe . He did not believe in ...
... death by drink- ing the fatal hemlock . He did not seek to escape , dying in 399 B.c. I. J. Stone argues that his snobbery doomed him . He showed no compassion for Athens or for his shrew- ish wife , Xanthippe . He did not believe in ...
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... death in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.ix 79 . The younger Pliny was born in the area near beautiful Lake Como in northern Italy . He was well - educated by the great orator Quintilian . At the age of eighteen he be- came an ...
... death in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.ix 79 . The younger Pliny was born in the area near beautiful Lake Como in northern Italy . He was well - educated by the great orator Quintilian . At the age of eighteen he be- came an ...
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... death and resurrection ( Antiquities . 18.3.3 ) . Harrison judiciously argues for the essential substance of the statement , which is remarkable indeed.3 Josephus writes mindfully of the great prophecies of Daniel , particularly in ...
... death and resurrection ( Antiquities . 18.3.3 ) . Harrison judiciously argues for the essential substance of the statement , which is remarkable indeed.3 Josephus writes mindfully of the great prophecies of Daniel , particularly in ...
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... death by agents of Anthony while attempting flight . His head and hands were exhibited in Rome . 1. George Kennedy , Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times ( Chapel Hill , N.C ...
... death by agents of Anthony while attempting flight . His head and hands were exhibited in Rome . 1. George Kennedy , Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times ( Chapel Hill , N.C ...
Contenido
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Tapping the Vitality of the Renaissance | 77 |
Revisiting Crucial Ideas from | 103 |
Weighing the Christian Heritage | 145 |
Appreciating the Treasures of British Poetry | 179 |
Inquiring into the Values of American Poetry | 261 |
Examining the Startling Surges | 375 |
Broadening the Search into World Literature | 425 |
Exploring the Literature of and About | 490 |
Assessing the Literature of Drama and | 512 |
Searching Through the Vast World of | 532 |
Selecting the Best in the Daunting Array | 558 |
Reading and Its Future | 582 |
Sifting the Amazing Trove of British Fiction | 306 |
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