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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Greek Books, Athenaeus The Deipnosophists

Athenaeus The Deipnosophists is in Greek Books.

Greek Books, Athenaeus The Deipnosophists Book 13

Greek Books, Athenaeus The Deipnosophists Book 13 Chapter 71

                    How many festive parties frequent rang
                
                    With the fond love of Lesbian Alcæus,
                
                    Who sang the praises of the amorous Sappho,
                
                    And grieved his Teian1 rival, breathing songs
                
                    Such as the nightingale would gladly imitate;
                
                    For the divine Anacreon also sought
                
                    To win the heart of the sacred poetess,
                
                    Chief ornament of all the Lesbian bands;
                
                    And so he roved about, now leaving Samos,
                
                    Now parting from his own enslaved land,
                
                    Parent of vines, to wine-producing Lesbos;
                
                    And often he beheld Cape Lectum there,
                
                    Across th' Aeolian wave. But greatest of all,
                
                    The Attic bee2 oft left its rugged hill,
                
                    Singing in tragic choruses divine,
                
                    Bacchus and Love
                
                    Note 1. Anacreon.
                
                    Note 2. Sophocles.

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