Aeschylus: Ebooks And Educational Links

Bust of Aeschylus from the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Wikipedia

From Wikipedia: Aeschylus (c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics' and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only with the chorus.

Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived, and there is a longstanding debate regarding his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound, which some believe his son Euphorion actually wrote. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work.[6] He was probably the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy; his Oresteia is the only ancient example of the form to have survived.[7] At least one of his plays was influenced by the Persians' second invasion of Greece (480–479 BC). This work, The Persians, is the only surviving classical Greek tragedy concerned with contemporary events (very few of that kind were ever written),[8] and a useful source of information about its period. The significance of war in Ancient Greek culture was so great that Aeschylus' epitaph commemorates his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon while making no mention of his success as a playwright. Despite this, Aeschylus' work – particularly the Oresteia – is acclaimed by today's literary academics.

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EBOOKS BY AESCHYLUS

Works by Aeschylus -- Bookyards
Works by Aeschylus -- Internet Classics Archive
The Dramas of Aeschylus -- Internet Sacred Text Archive
Poems by Aeschylus -- Poetry Archive

USEFUL EDUCATIONAL LINKS

Aeschylus -- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aeschylus -- Columbia College
Aeschylus -- Theatre Database
Aeschylus and his Tragedies -- Theatre History
Aeschylus -- New World Encycpodia
Aeschylus -- Ancient History Encyclopedia
Aeschylus -- Encyclopedia.com
Aeschylis -- Classical Literature
Aeschylus -- Crystal Links
Aeschylus and his tragedies -- Theatre History

USEFUL QUOTES

Aeschylus Quotes -- Brainy Quote
Aeschylus -- Wikiquote
Aeschylus Quotes -- Literary Quotations
Aeschylus Quotes -- Notable Quotes

VIDEOS ON AESCHYLUS

Homer's Iliad And The Odyssey

Idealized portrayal of Homer dating to the Hellenistic period. British Museum. Wikipedia 

From Wikipedia: Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.

EBOOKS BY HOMER 

Works By Homer -- Bookyards The Iliad (By Homer) -- Bookyards
Works by Homer -- Classics.mit
Books by Homer -- Project Gutenberg
The Odyssey -- Literature Network
The Illiad -- Classical.mit
The Iliad by Homer -- Full Audiobook
THE ODYSSEY by Homer - FULL AudioBook

 USEFUL EDUCATIONAL LINKS ON HOMER 

Homer -- Wikipedia
Homer: Greek poet -- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Homer Biography -- Biography
Homer Quotes -- Brainy Quote
The Odyssey at a Glance -- Cliff Notes
The Odyssey -- Classical Literature
The Odyssey Summary -- eNotes
THE ODYSSEY -- Spark Notes
Odyssey -- Wikipedia
About the Iliad -- Cliffs Notes
The Illiad -- Sparks Notes
The Illiad -- Classical Literature
Illiad -- Wikipdia

 VIDEOS ON HOMER AND HIS WORKS 

Classics Summarized: The Odyssey
Video SparkNotes: Homer's The Odyssey summary
Homer: The Iliad
Classics Summarized: The Iliad

The Legend of Gilgamesh

This is a newly discovered partially broken tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. The tablet dates back to the old Babylonian period, 2003-1595 BCE. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq. Wikipedia 

From Wikipedia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC), it is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk. These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few tablets of it have survived. The later "Standard" version dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and bears the incipit Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Deep", in modern terms: "He who Sees the Unknown"). Approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

 THE LEGEND OF GILGAMESH (EBOOK) 

The Epic of Gilgamesh -- Academia
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Translated by N.K. Sandars) -- HDHS
The Epic Of Gilgamesh (A New Translation) -- Penguin

 USEFUL EDUCATIONAL LINKS 

The Legend of Gilgamesh -- Classical Literature
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Plot Overview) -- The Spark Notes
The Epic of Gilgamesh -- The Spark Notes
The Epic of Gilgamesh Summary -- Enotes
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish -- E.A. Wallis Budge, Sacred Texts The Gilgamesh Epic -- Cummings Study Guide
Gilgamesh -- Ancient History Encyclopedia Gilgamesh -- Wikipedia
Epic of Gilgamesh -- Wikipedia

 VIDEOS ON THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH 

The Epic of Gilgamesh Lecture -- WatchKnowLearn

Book Review: 'From Gutenberg To Google'

CSM: 'From Gutenberg to Google,' how human inquiry became a networked activity

Author Tom Wheeler chronicles how knowledge in the Western world was largely localized, artisanal, and intensely exclusionary until Johannes Gutenberg combined a suite of technological innovations to revolutionize the way books were made.

When Johannes Gutenberg was born in the German city of Mainz around the turn of the 15th century, knowledge in the Western world was largely localized, artisanal, and intensely exclusionary. Books were expensive luxuries, the products of time-consuming specialized labor; each one was unique in both its beauty and its errors. And because of their relative scarcity, books were also considerably controllable: locking them in libraries and chaining them to lecterns turned their contents into private property.

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Bookyards editor: We have definitely gone a long way from a few books 500 years ago .... to today where everything is networked and easily accessible.

20 Romantic Quotes From Literature For Valentine's Day

Parade: Need Valentine’s Day Card Inspiration? 20 Romantic Quotes from Literature

Looking for a poetic message to include in a Valentine’s Day card? These romantic quotes from literature are sure to impress your sweeetheart on Valentine’s Day, or any day of the year.

1. “I wish I knew how to quit you.” —Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx

2. “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” —Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3. “Who, being loved, is poor?” —A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde

4. “I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.” —Possession, A.S. Byatt

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Bookyards Editor: There are some good ones here.

Books Are Far From Dead

Time: Stop Saying Books Are Dead. They’re More Alive Than Ever

“The book is dead,” is a refrain I hear constantly. I’ll run into people on the subway, in a taxi, in an airport, or wherever I might be and when I tell them what I do, they ask me “do people even still read anymore?” This simple question implies the very work I do at the National Book Foundation may not be worthwhile—or even possible. It’s generally a casual statement, a throwaway remark, a comment repeated so often that it’s taken as fact. The book is obviously dead, or at least dying, right?

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Bookyards editor: I concur.

Moscow's Libraries Are Having A Revival

Moscow's Fyodor Dostoevsky Library was renovated in 2013 and now sees some 500 visitors a day, up from just a dozen or so per day in earlier years. The library hosts language clubs, readings, lectures and concerts. Lucian Kim/NPR

NPR: Once Centers Of Soviet Propaganda, Moscow's Libraries Are Having A 'Loud' Revival

The Chistye Prudy neighborhood is one of Moscow's liveliest, with restaurants and cafes clustered along a boulevard with a tram line and grand old apartment buildings.

Before the bars fill up in the evenings, the neighborhood's most popular hangout is the Fyodor Dostoevsky Library, named for the 19th century Russian writer. While young people huddle over laptops as city traffic growls past the large windows in the main reading hall, a theater group is rehearsing a play in another room. A constant stream of visitors comes through the entrance, with the front door banging behind them.

"It's one of the best libraries here in Moscow just because it has changed so much," says Alsu Gorbatyuk, 40, an English teacher who popped in after a visit to a skating rink. "I suppose that right now, Moscow is one of the centers of library culture."

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WNU Editor: It is always good to see a library flourishing.

The End Of The Bookshop?

World Crunch: Is This The Final Chapter For World's Iconic Bookshops?

From Madrid to Cork to Shanghai, some of the most revered old bookshops are closing doors as they face pressure from big chains and e-readers. But our bookworm writer found some small signs of hope.

PARIS — A week or so before Christmas, I decided to take advantage of a quick in-and-out visit to Paris to visit one of the city's most iconic expat establishments: The Shakespeare and Company bookstore in the Latin Quarter.

A stormy night had just fallen and the temps weren't too far above freezing as I trudged across the Seine, through wind and rain, to where I expected to find the famous English-language gathering spot. But when I got there, the bookshop — famous among other things for cameos in films like Before Sunset (2004) and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011) — was nowhere to be found.

That's when it occurred to me that the venerable old locale had perhaps closed down. "Noooo," I lamented. "Say it ain't so." But yes, surely I read something to that effect, I thought. Or did I? Befuddled and very cold, I ducked under an awning and, with numb fingers, fumbled around in my pocket for my phone.

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Bookyards editor: I hope this is not the end of the small bookshop. But high rents and low profit margins is making this business model difficult to survive in Europe and in North America.

British Library's Collection Of Obscene Writing Goes Online

Detail from illustration in Harris’s Lists of Covent-Garden Ladies, held in the British Library ‘Private Case’ collection. Photograph: British Library

The Guardian: British Library's collection of obscene writing goes online

‘Private Case’ of sexually explicit books dating back to 1658 ranges from the hijinks of Roger Pheuquewell to pioneering gay porn in the 19th century.

The sniggeringly pseudonymous Roger Pheuquewell’s contribution to a series of 18th-century erotic novels imagining the female body as land needing to be “ploughed” is among a collection of books from the British Library’s “Private Case” – a collection of obscene titles kept locked away for more than a century that are finally being shared with a wider audience.

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Bookyards editor: Sex and books .... somethings never change.

An Infographic On The State Of Books And Reading Across The World In 2018

Ebook Friendly: The state of books and reading in 2018 (infographic)

74% of Americans read a book in 2018. Europeans spend €200 per person on books and newspapers. Reading books on mobile phones is surging in Africa.

Following the 2017 edition, the team from Global English Editing has created an epic infographic with detailed facts and stats that help learn about the state of books and reading across the world in 2018.

Every single part of this stunning visual is worth reading and sharing.

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Bookyards editor: There is a lot of info on this infographic.

The Evolution Of The Alphabet Over 3,800 Years

Open Culture: The Evolution of the Alphabet: A Colorful Flowchart, Covering 3,800 Years, Takes You From Ancient Egypt to Today

No matter our native language, we all have to learn a writing system. And whichever language we learn, its writing system had to come from somewhere. Take English, the language you're reading right now and one written in Latin script, which it shares with a range of other tongues: the European likes of French, Spanish, and German, of course, but now also Icelandic, Swahili, Tagalog, and a great many more besides. The video above by Matt Baker of UsefulCharts explains just where this increasingly widespread writing system came from, tracing its origins all the way back to the Proto-Sinaitic script of Egypt in 1750 BCE.

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WNU Editor: It is amazing how the alphabet has evolved over the centuries.

What Do Women And Men Read (Infographic)

Ebook Friendly: Sex and reading – what do women and men read (infographic)

A new infographic from Goodreads takes a closer look at reading preferences of women vs men.

What do men and women want when it comes to books? Are they reading their own gender? And what do they think of books written by the opposite sex?

To gather data for the infographic, Goodreads team looked at a sample of 40,000 active members on the site. 20,000 of them were women , 20,000 – men.

Make sure to follow Goodreads blog, as the category-specific reading infographics will be coming in the next weeks.

Tap on the infographic to enlarge it.

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WNU Editor:  No surprise. .... women read two times more than men.

How Much Do The Big Authors Earn By Word?

Title Pro: How Much Are Big Authors Worth Per Word?

What if the world’s wealthiest authors made their money per word? In reality, big-name writers like Stephen King and Nora Roberts get the majority of their pay from movie deals, merchandise, signings, and other avenues, but what if we turned the modern author pay scale into something past authors from the Victorian era had to deal with: pay per word?

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Bookyards editor: J.K. Rowling beats everyone hands-down. She earns$957.66 per word.

Is Twitter Ruining Book Publishing?

Lionel Shriver, Spectator: Why do authors have to be ‘moral’? Because their publishing contracts tell them so

My compulsion to rub strangers up the wrong way in a political sense grows only more enticing.

Suppose you’re a writer with a self-destructive proclivity for sticking your neck out. Would you sign a book contract that would be canceled in the instance of ‘sustained, widespread public condemnation of the author’? Even cautious, congenial writers are working in an era when a bland, self-evident physiological assertion like ‘women don’t have penises’ attracts a school of frenzied piranhas. So journalists would be fools to sign a document voided if, in a magazine’s ‘sole judgment’, they were the subject of ‘public disrepute, contempt, complaints or scandals’.

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WNU Editor: With the world wide web nothing is secret anymore. Hence the morality contracts to accommodate cultural changes.

The History Of Publishing (Infographic)

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Ribbonfish: Infographic: A Concise History of Publishing

The publishing industry has been around in some form since man was first able to write down his thoughts. It’s had its ups and downs throughout the years, from books being banned and burned, to the introduction of new technologies revolutionising the way that books (and digital products) can be manufactured and consumed.

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Bookyards Editor: We have definitely progressed a lot since the Gutenberg press.

Remembering Charles Dickens’s First Visit To New York

Douglas Muzzio, City Journal: When Boz Came to Town

Remembering Charles Dickens’s first visit to New York

On February 12, 1842, after a triumphal three-week stay in Boston and gala receptions and dinners in Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford, Charles Dickens—universally known by his pseudonym, “Boz”—landed at South Street in lower Manhattan on the packet New York from New Haven. When he stepped off the boat with his wife, Catherine (Kate), Dickens was greeted by a throng of cheering admirers, whom the New York Herald described as “perfectly whirlwindish . . . a promiscuous assemblage of bipeds that covered the dock as barnacles a ship’s bottom.” The paper crowed: “At last Boz breathes the balmy atmosphere of the Queen City of the Empire State.”

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WNU Editor: You can browse and download the works by Charles Dickens from here.

This Copy Of Fahrenheit-451 Can Only Be Read If It’s On Fire

Electric Literature: Buy a Copy of Fahrenheit-451 That Can Only Be Read If It’s on Fire

For a mere $451, you can now own a limited-edition heat-sensitive copy of Ray Bradbury’s book

Graphic design studio Super Terrain’s edition of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic Fahrenheit-451 took the internet by storm, thanks to a video showing how its all-black pages become readable text when exposed to an open flame. (This will, and quite possibly should, also work with a hair dryer or something else not completely on fire.) And now, for only $451 — get it? — you can preorder one to keep on a specially-heated shelf in your home! If you have $451 to drop on an artist’s book, we figure you could have custom heated shelves.

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Bookyards editor: At $451 per copy, that is one expensive book.

Here Are 24 Books That Bill Gates Recommended In 2018

Gates Notes

Business Insider: 24 must-read books that Bill Gates recommended in 2018

* We've rounded up Bill Gates' many book recommendations in 2018.
* Over the past year, Gates gave his stamp of approval to more than 20 titles, including two books on meditation.
* In addition to science and data-driven stories, the list features popular books like Trevor Noah's memoir, "Born a Crime," and John Green's "Turtles All the Way Down."

Bill Gates isn't shy about recommending books. As an avid reader, he's given his stamp of approval to hundreds of titles, including some unlikely beach reads.

This year alone, he's highlighted more than 20 books that captured his attention or expanded his worldview.

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WNU Editor: "Army of None" by Paul Scharre is one of my favourites this year.

How Bill Gates Reads Books (Video)

Bookyards editor: The above video was posted a year ago, but it is still relevant today. On a side note .... All the books Bill Gates has recommended over the last eight years (Quartz).

Selection Of 2018's Best Poems To Lift Your Spirits

Daily Mail: Brave, bold and beautiful: Our ultimate selection of this year's best poems to lift your spirits

* Bel Mooney picked out this year's best poetry books that express every feeling
* She Is Fierce edited by Ana Sampson collates beautiful poems by women
* Running Upon The Wires is Kate Tempest's celebration of naked lust
* The Luckiest Guy sparks laughter and questioning everything

There’s a modern cliche that people don’t really read poetry. Yet they need it. At the great stages of life (love affairs, love’s ending, weddings, babies, funerals) they will seek readings to express their own feelings.

A well-loved poem can penetrate to the heart of human feelings; that’s why we tend to return to old favourites for uplift and comfort.

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Bookyards editor: Bookyards has over 500 ebooks on poems and poetry that you can browse and download. The link is here.

Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books

Fast Company: Why you should surround yourself with more books than you’ll ever have time to read

An overstuffed bookcase (or e-reader) says good things about your mind.

Lifelong learning will help you be happier, earn more, and even stay healthier, experts say. Plus, plenty of the smartest names in business, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk, insist that the best way to get smarter is to read. So what do you do? You go out and buy books, lots of them.

But life is busy, and intentions are one thing, actions another. Soon you find your shelves (or e-reader) overflowing with titles you intend to read one day, or books you flipped through once but then abandoned. Is this a disaster for your project to become a smarter, wiser person?

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Bookyards editor: I definitely do not have the time to read my books, but I continue to buy more..

Loud Eating In The Library! (Video)

Bookyards editor: This video is to the extreme, but I have had my share of people eating to loud in a library.

11,000 Digitized Books From 1923 Are Now Available Online

Open Culture: 11,000 Digitized Books From 1923 Are Now Available Online at the Internet Archive

Whether your interest is in winning arguments online or considerably deepening your knowledge of world cultural and intellectual history, you will be very well-served by at least one government agency from now into the foreseeable future. Thanks to the expiration of the so-called "Micky Mouse Protection Act," the U.S. Copyright Office will release a year’s worth of art, literature, scholarship, photography, film, etc. into the public domain, starting with 1923 this year then moving through the 20th century each subsequent year.

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Bookyards' Editor: This is long overdue.