In The Competitor's Daily Routine, author and coach Virgil Akers Jr. challenges athletes to build the daily habits that support competitive excellence. Talent can open the door, but discipline, preparation, and consistency determine what you do with the opportunity.Through six focused chapters this book guides readers toward a more intentional approach to training and life. From setting personal standards and taking control of your morning to training with purpose, priorit...

Anthology of Epic Poems, is a collection of epic poems collected for you with a Active table of contents, to make reading more enjoyable. This collection includes: -The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer -The Aeneid, by Virgil -The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri -Venus and Adonis, by William Shakespeare -Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, by John Milton

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...

Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents.

Change doesn't happen by accident. It happens when you decide to take the first step.In 5 C's for Change, author Virgil Akers Jr. takes readers on a personal-development journey built around five powerful principles: Confidence, Competence, Communication, Cooperation, and Creation.Using practical lessons, personal experiences, sports analogies, and real-life examples, Akers challenges you to take a...

A legendary cold case from Arizona history may help solve the suspicious death of an Apache boy in this mystery series debut.More than a century ago, Maj. Joseph Wham was killed during a payroll robbery in Arizona Territory. The case was never solved, leaving behind a legacy of death and distrust. Now the mysterious killing of a young Apache boy has local law enforcement wondering if the tragic incident might be connected to the curse of Major Wham's lost payroll.

"The Aeneid" is an epic poem written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BCE. Virgil composed this epic for his patron, Augustus Caesar, the first Emperor of Rome. Augustus wanted the Romans to have an epic of their own, a story that would be to Rome what the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were to Greece. He wanted to give the Romans a glorious and ancient history full of Roman virtue and foreshadowing Rome's future glory.In "the Aeneid", Virgil tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan he...

**“Looking for a good translation of the Aeneid? I recommend McGill and Wright’s edition…. A stunning, highly readable text.” —Rick RiordanRome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.**Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound loss. Through its stirring account of human struggl...

What stories shaped civilization's understanding of heroism, fate, and the soul? The Epic Poems Anthology brings together the greatest epic poems ever written—monumental works that defined cultures, inspired centuries of art, and laid the foundations of Western literature. From the battlefields of ancient Troy to the depths of the underworld and the heights of heaven, these poems explore courage, honor, destiny, love, and the eternal struggle between humanity and the divine. Featuring mast...

"The House Behind the Silence" is a psychological thriller about Claire Bennett, a woman who returns to her childhood home after her mother's death, only to discover that everything she thought about her father's disappearance may have been an elaborate lie.Twelve years after Daniel Bennett vanished, Claire stumbles upon a mysterious key bearing the number 317, hidden recordings, old photographs, secret diaries, and clues that suggest someone has been watching her since childhood. ...

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of BooksVirgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

The Aeneid is widely considered Virgil's finest work and one of the most important poems in the history of western literature. Virgil worked on the Aeneid during the last eleven years of his life (2919 BC), commissioned, according to Propertius, by Augustus. The epic poem consists of 12 books in dactylic hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a warrior fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome ...