Herding Dogs: Progressive Training is the only book of its kind to guide the owner toward training the complete herding dog. Whether you are involved in farming or ranching, or simply want to explore your herding dog's heritage, you will find a wealth of information here. For those with competitive goals, Herding Dogs will enhance your knowledge with a philosophy that has the dog's individual breed and personality as the central focus.Vergil S. Holland teaches the handler to unders...

A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland, New StatesmanFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas’s dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, an...

A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notesThis is a substantial revision of Sarah Ruden’s celebrated 2008 translation of Vergil’s Aeneid, which was acclaimed by Garry Wills as “the first translation since Dryden’s that can be read as a great English poem in itself.” Ruden’s line-for-line translation in iambic pentameter is an astonishing feat, unique among modern translations. Her revisions to the ...

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy. The poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan fol...

Koi ponds are said to bring good luck to their owners in Chinese culture. Koi ponds are used as feng shui to help them improve their lives. Koi ponds are regarded as a form of leisure and serenity in other parts of the world. In the United States, it appears that more and more people are finding Koi ponds to be more enjoyable than anything else. Whatever your intention for wanting a Koi pond, they will undoubtedly bring joy to your life.As a new koi pond owner, you will encounter a...

Epic Tale of Aeneas: Surviving Troy, Guided by Gods, Founding Rome. A Fresh Retelling of Homer's Classics, Rich with Heroism, Adversity, and Resilience.In this masterful retelling of The Aeneid, we journey with Trojan Prince Aeneas, the survivor of the catastrophic ruin of Troy. Despite the calamity, Aeneas ignites hope within the hearts of the surviving Trojans. Encouraged by Jupiter and the Fates, they set sail westward towards the promise of founding th...

Since the beginning of the church, Christians have always struggled with culture and how best to relate to our world. We are all familiar with the adage, . . . in the world but not of the world. We are aware that the Scripture requires us to be Salt and light as well as not to be conformed to the image of this world. But the problem is that many of us have our blinders on and consequently we are unable to make a determination of whether we are in or of the world. Inside the church where we...

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A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes"Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am confident it will be a long time before a translator exceeds the standard that she has set."—A.M. Juster, Athenaeum ReviewThis is a substantial revision of Sarah Ruden’s celebrated 2008 translation of Vergil’s Aeneid,...

To reconstruct or not to reconstruct? That is the question facing many agencies and site managers throughout the world. While reconstructed sites provide a three-dimensional pedagogic environment in which visitors can acquire a heightened sense of the past, an ethical conflict emerges when on-site reconstructions and restorations contribute to the damage or destruction of the original archaeological record. The case studies in this volume contribute to the ongoing debates between data and ...

**“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” —Ange Mlinko, London Review of BooksThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.**When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it ...

Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is constantly set against r...