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Greek Classics

by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Published 22 July 2004

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Cover of Notes on Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

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CliffsNotes provides detailed plot summaries, critical commentaries, and a helpful character map to help you uncover all the insight this novel has to offer. Make your study of this timeless novel a success with "CliffsNotes on Jane Eyre." Other features that help you study includeCharacter analyses of major playersCritical essaysA review section that tests your knowledgeBackground on the author, including career highlights

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This sweeping survey of ancient Greek culture covers the greatest works of Greek poets, dramatists, philosophers, writers, and historians. These writings are the foundation of the way we think and act and are important to the student of the human condition.

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Cover of Notes on Roman Classics
Cliffs Notes on Roman Classics is the reference book you need to understand the values and ideas inherent in Latin literature and Roman civilization. It is a must for students of: the Humanities English Literature World Literature Law Classical Literature and Languages Political Science History Theatre and Drama Religion Speech Communications Use this invaluable reference book to:
* Give you concise overviews of Roman poets, playwrights, orators, satirists, philosophers, historians, and their works.
* Locate topics for term papers and essays.
* Check facts, dates, spelling, and pronunciation.
* Identify the five major divisions of Latin literature, including the Golden Age and the Silver Age.
* Discover the genesis of biography, the encyclopedia, and the art of satire.
* Recognize literary allusions to people and events such as Little Boots, the Queen of the Nile, the Good Emperors, the Roman Homer, crossing the Rubicon, the eruption of Vesuvius, the Battle of Actium, and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
* Comprehend, through example, such terms as Philippics, persona non grata, a sound mind in a sound body, the law of three children, plebes, and equites, lightning war, divide and conquer, the sublime, toga virilis, triumvirate, the die is cast, de rerum natura, apologia, veni vidi vici, arms and the man, et tu Brute, Pax Romana, Cumaean Sybil, Ides of March, bread and circuses, pontifex maximus, and the Vulgate Bible.
* Place Roman authors in historical context and chronological relationship to one another.
* Review the accomplishments of Roman civilization under its various forms of government.
* Recognize the roots of Western poetic themes and genres in such Latin writers as Ovid, Virgil, and Catullus.
* Discover the importance of Christian thought as Rome evolved into the center of the Catholic world.
* Understand the great influence of major Greek ideas, such as Epicureanism, Platonism, Aristotilianism, and the Golden Mean.

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These two longer short stories deal with men in commerce on Wall Street and men at sea, both involved in struggles for power and the creation of a livable ethic.