Author
Also known as William Active Adlington, William William Adlington
translator of Metamorpheses or the Golden Ass
3 works
Recorded as 1962; date may be inaccurate
432 editions
2 editions
1 edition
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Reading this book feels watching the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are apes camped around the fire, huddling against the terrors of the night. These apes are people like Ovid, Virgil, Sophocles, Euripides, Aesculapius, Homer, Cicero, Plato, So…
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Thus, then, in accordance with the likely account, we must declare that this Cosmos has verily come into existence as a Living Creature endowed with soul and reason [...] a Living Creature, one and visible, containing within itself all the living creatures wh…
