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Homer

Homer

Jasper Griffin

Much has been written about their origins and authorship, but Jasper Griffin, although he touches briefly on those questions, is here concerned with the ideas of the poems, which have had such an incalculable influence on the ideas of the ...
Congressional Edition

Congressional Edition

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Griffin, Joseph Griffin, Joseph Griffin, Joseph Griffin, Joshua Griffin, Joshua Griffin, Mark Griffin, Nathan Griffin, Peter Griffin, Rodger Griffin, Simon Griffin, Simon Griffin, Simon Griffin, Simon Griffin, William Griffin, William Griffin, William Griffin, ...
Homer: The Odyssey

Homer: The Odyssey

Jasper Griffin

This handy guide will introduce students to a text that has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years.
Snobs

Snobs

Jasper Griffin

Anecdotes from the past, incidents from novels, and selections from essays describe examples of human pride and snobbishness
Virgil

Virgil

Jasper Griffin

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire.
Homer on Life and Death

Homer on Life and Death

Jasper Griffin

This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it.
Jasper's Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies

Jasper's Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies

Herbert Henri Jasper

Prev. ed.: Jasper's basic mechanisms of the epilepsies / editors, Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta ... [et. al.]. 3rd. ed. c1999.
The Knights of Columbus in Peace and War

The Knights of Columbus in Peace and War

Maurice Francis Egan

John J. Granger, H. L. Gravel, Gaston A. Gravel, Wilfred R. Greelev, Daniel J. Griffin, Edward R. Griffin. George R. Griffin. John J. Griffin, John J. Griffin, Michael J. Guerin, Edmund L Gulley, Frank Groden, Edward J. Haberlin, Walter E. Hackett , ...
Latin Poets and Roman Life

Latin Poets and Roman Life

Jasper Griffin

Theories which deny that directness are criticized in this book as mistaken. The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic variety - eating, drinking, bathing, love - is a central subject, but so is death.
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

John Boardman

Hesiod. JASPER. GRIFFIN. Myth EVERYONE is familiar with some Greek myths: that Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx and married his mother, that the Argonauts sailed away in search of the Golden Fleece. Many poeple know that there ...
The Aeneid

The Aeneid

Virgil

Both are available in paperback. My own views on the poet are set out at greater length in Jasper Griffin: Virgil (Oxford, Past Master series, October 1986). A CHRONOLOGY OF VIRGtL 70 BC Virgil born near Mantua. Select Bibliography.
West's New York supplement

West's New York supplement

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SI/ HY NUMBER SYSTEM > 217 A.D.2d 95 In the Matter of F. Hollis GRIFFIN, Jr. ( Admitted as Francis H. Griffin, Jr.), an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law. Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District, Petitioner; F. Hollis Griffin, Jr., ...
Game

Game

Barry Lyga

And he taught Jasper every trick he knows. A series of gruesome murders in New York gives Jasper the chance to prove that he’s not his father’s son. It’s time to hunt a killer. But the game has just begun.
The Double Agents: A Men at War Novel

The Double Agents: A Men at War Novel

W.E.B. Griffin

This is Griffin’s 36th novel and his son’s first; one wonders how prolific a force Griffin & Son will be!” (Library Journal) Now, Dick Canidy and colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services face an even greater task—to convince ...
The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful ...

The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful ...

Jasper Ridley

Though not a mason himself, Jasper Ridley nonetheless refutes many of the outrageous allegations made against Freemasonry, while at the same time acknowledging the masons’ shortcomings: their clannishness, misogyny, obsession with secrecy ...
Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed ...

Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed ...

Dale C. Spencer

You look at the game, they have Forrest Griffin on the cover. How many other fighters are way above Forrest Griffin? ... Forrest Griffin is a fighter out of Texas that, in his ring entry song, interviews, and multiple appearances on The Ultimate  ...
Maximilian and Juarez

Maximilian and Juarez

Jasper Ridley

"Jasper Ridley has written a riveting account of an episode which is exciting throughout and tragic at the end; it is also essential reading to understand the history of the United States today."--Antonia Fraser.
Stray Souls

Stray Souls

Kate Griffin

Praise for Kate Griffin 'Shatteringly excellent' SciFiNow 'Neverwhere for the digital age' SFX 'You should be reading everything Griffin puts her pen to' Fantasy Book Review STRAY SOULS is the first novel in the Magicals Anonymous series, ...
Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety

Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety

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Chapter Editor Michael J. Griffin Contents Vibration Michael]. Griffin 50.2 Whole- body Vibration Helmut Seidel and Michael J. Griffin 50.2 Hand-transmitted Vibration Massimo Bovenzi. . . . 50.7 Motion Sickness AlanJ. Benson. . . 50. 1 2 Figure ...
The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination

The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination

W.L. Craig

Griffin, David Ray. “Introduction: Time and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness .” In Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time, pp. 1–48. Edited by DavidR. Griffin. Albany, N. Y.: State University of New York Press, 1986. Griffin, David Ray  ...
Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to ...

Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to ...

Carlton E. Blake

... Timothy 2, Jasper 1), bohn in Monmouth, Me., Dec 1 1 , 7 777, where he died Sept 6 [another acc't says 8) 1859. farmer; md about 1805, Nancy Ann Kimball, dau oh and Elizabeth [GUdden) , fa July 15, 1781; d Monmouth, Jan 29, 1841.
A Quiet Undertaking: A Connor Westphal Mystery

A Quiet Undertaking: A Connor Westphal Mystery

Penny Warner

Connor Westphal, a deaf reporter, investigates the discovery of human ashes in a storage facility rented by Jasper Coyne, who was hired to scatter them at sea, but soon Jasper is dead and Connor's best friend becomes the chief suspect
Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

Jasper Ridley

First published in 1962, Jasper Ridley’s biography of Thomas Cranmer, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I, examines the attitude of Cranmer’s biographies and critics from ...
Census of Population: 1950: Special reports

Census of Population: 1950: Special reports

United States. Bureau of the Census

MISSISSIPPI: Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Hinds, Jasper, ... Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Marlon, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Richland, Saline, Union, Wayne, Williamson.
Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations:

Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations:

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MR642416 (83e:53037) Marcin Bownik and John Jasper, Characterization of sequences of frame norms, J. Reine Angew. Math. 654 (2011), 219–244, DOI 10.1515/CRELLE.2011.035. MR2795756 (2012d:42066) M. Bownik, J. Jasper, ...
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of ...

Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of ...

Jasper Yeates

With Some Select Cases at Nisi Prius, and in the Circuit Courts [1791-1808] Jasper Yeates, Charles Smith ... It was removed on a writ of error to the Supreme Court, on a bill of exceptions, and the judgment of the Common Pleas was reversed.

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