Socrates

She dedicated this work to Phainarete , mother of Socrates , who was reputedly a midwife.

Despite her distaste for the survey courses and canonical English poets, AC eventually re-enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1970 , in the classics program. As an undergraduate she was particularly drawn to passionate...

Once married, CC set out to educate herself with books from the public library. She read the central canon in English from Shakespeare to the Romantics. She also read philosophy and found Socrates a help...

Her father, Charles Leslie Stevenson , took a second BA at Cambridge, England, after his marriage, before becoming a graduate student at Harvard, where the family spent six years. He was an academic...

Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor , and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates . While pregnant with her son Edward she...

Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of...

AJV translates from Sappho , Anacreon , Alcæus , Theocritus , Horace , and more recent poets: Petrarch and Camoens . She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute

Apart from travelling and hiking together and discussing their respective writing, the couple had in common their pleasure in folk dancing. They were both members of the English Folk Dance Society , founded by Evelyn's...

William Holman Hunt wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation.The Athenæum reviewer praised this version as being the only selection suitable for a...

Sappho was praised by many of the great names in the classical world: Socrates , Lucian , Plutarch , Aristotle (who, however, wrote, the Mytileans honored Sappho even though she was a woman),

SF published by subscription her last book, a translation of Xenophon 's Memoirs of Socrates , With the Defence of Socrates.

However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad...

Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé....

Xantippe was the wife of Socrates , who is supposed in popular tradition to have been a scold whose obsessive housekeeping contrasted with her husband's deep philosophy. AL sets out to rehabilitate her character in...

Midwives, EC argues, were professionally organized hundreds if not thousands of years earlier than physicians. Her argument presses into service the Bible, classical texts, ancient and European history. She cites Exodus 1. 15-21, where midwives...