Articles This Week

This week's articles seem far more unconnected than last week's set. I'm trying to finish all the book-by-book quizzes on the Odyssey by the beginning of the school year here and continue to work on Hercules myths this month. Here are the individual articles, in case you missed them:

• 08/13/09 - Dactylic Hexameter
  I added more, hopefully helpful explanation to the glossary entry on dactylic hexameter, but it grew too long for the format, so it is now in a quick tip.
• 08/13/09 - Quiz on Odyssey VIII
• 08/13/09 - Quiz on Odyssey VII
• 08/12/09 - Etext of Xenophon's Hellenica
  Referred to in connection with the Corinthian War, this public domain translation has been added to the etexts on this site.
• 08/12/09 - Corinthian War
  Glossary entry on the Greek war known as the Corinthian War.
• 08/11/09 - Tripod
  Glossary entry on the object Apollo and Hercules fought over.
• 08/11/09 - Latin Ordinal Numbers
  A page on the ordinal numbers, to go with the one on the cardinal numbers, created in response for a request to translate 35th anniversary into Latin.
• 08/11/09 - Quiz on Odyssey VI
• 08/09/09 - Hercules, Iphitus, and Iole
  As a result of the killing of his guest Iphitus, Hercules is sold on the slave market to the Queen of Lydia, Omphale. This page looks at the sequence of events that led Hercules to such sacrilege.
• 08/09/09 - Persian Kings Timeline
  Lists of the ancient dynasties of Persian rulers.

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