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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes (Volume 6)
The Universal Anthology A Collection of the Best Literature Ancient Mediaeval and Modern with Biographical and Explanatory Notes - Volume 6 Author:Richard Garnett CONTENTS The Main Currents of German Literature: Introduction by Alois Brandl The Autobiography of Augustus Tiberius and the Senate -- Tacitus Tiberius and Sejanus -- Velleius Paterculus The Chariot Race at Antioch -- Lew Wallace Mary Magdalen at the House of Simon the Pharisee: I. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti II -- Laura E. R... more »ichards The Last Journey to Jerusalem -- Ernest Renan Pilate and the Crucifixion -- Dean Farrar The Ballad of Judas Iscariot -- Robert Buchanan Caligula -- Suetonius The Fate of a Persecutor of the Jews -- Philo Judaeus The Days of Nero -- Henryk Sienkiewicz Satires --Persius To Plotius Macrinus (The Second Satire) To Caesius Bassus (The Sixth Satire) A Self-Made Man -- Petronius Arbiter The Battle of Pharsalia -- Lucan On Anger -- Seneca Deaths and Characters of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius -- Tacitus Otho’s Conspiracy and Galba’s Death Battle of Bedriacum and Otho’s Death The Close of Vitellius’s Reign The Last Days of Vitellius -- Whyte-Melville Josephus on the Jewish War -- Josephus The Glories of Domitian’s Reign (The Fourth Satire) -- Juvenal The Libyan Dragon -- Silius Italicus Epigrams -- Martial Passages from Statius: The Wandering of Polynices The Palace of Sleep To Lucan Atalanta’s Presage Parthenopaeus’ Farewell Message Maxims -- Epictetus Natural Philosophy at the Christian Era -- Pliny the Elder Thunder and Lightning The Goose in War, Love, Gourmandism, Sybaritism, and Sickness The Chenalopex, the Cheneros, the Tetrao, and the Otis Cranes Storks Swans The Hyaena in Magic and Medicine Other Magical Charms Correspondence of Pliny the Younger: Pliny to Junius Mauricus -- Match-Making To Suetonius Tranquillus -- On Dreams To Arrianus -- On a State Trial To the Same -- In Continuation To Cornelius Nepos -- Story of Arria To Sura -- Ghost Stories To Tacitus -- Asking to Be Immortalized To the Emperor Trajan -- Asking Leave of Absence Trajan to Pliny -- In Reply Pliny to Trajan -- On the Prosecution of Christians Trajan to Pliny -- In Reply On the Great Eruption of Vesuvius Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Schiller The Destruction of Pompeii -- Bulwer-Lytton The Emperor and the Pope -- Plumptre The Emperor Hadrian to His Soul (Several Versions) Jocular Oratory-- Quintilian From Juvenal’s Tenth Satire (Dryden) -- Juvenal Cupid and Psyche -- Apuleius The Psyche Legend -- J. T. Bunce Wonders of the Animal World -- Aelian Cure for a Sick Lion Mice Abandon a Decaying House Patriotic Origin of Cock-Fights Serpents Generated from Marrow Fire-Born Birds Concerning Dragons The Song of the Dying Swan Vultures The Weasel’s Protection Against Serpents Of the Loves and Hates of Animals The Hyaena« less