Nabucco by Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Caesar and Anthony.... by Plutarch

Subjects: “…Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C.…”


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Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch

Table of Contents: “…Solon and Publicola -- II. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato major. …”


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Empires of the word : a language history of the world by Ostler, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Themistocles' carpet -- What it takes to be a world language, or, You never can tell -- The desert blooms : language innovation in the Middle East -- Triumphs of fertility : Egyptian and Chinese -- Charming like a creeper : the cultured career of Sanskrit -- Three thousand years of solipsism : the adventures of Greek -- Contesting Europe : Celt, Roman, German and Slav -- The first death of Latin -- The second death of Latin -- Usurpers of greatness : Spanish in the New World -- In the train of empire : Europe's languages abroad -- Microcosm or distorting mirror? …”


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Opera and sovereignty : transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification.…”


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