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The Age of BedePenguin Classics This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the anonymous Voyage of St Brendan a whimsical mixture of fact and fantasy that describes a quest for paradise on earth these are vivid accounts of the profoundly spiritual and passionately

Σε ένα χωριό υπάρχει το έθιμο να αναβιώνονται τα Πάθη του Χριστού κάθε επτά χρόνια

championed by the two great heroes Scipio and Hannibal

ο άντρας της

and confront the lure of the Sirens' song

Despite their differences

one on metre and the other giving text and translation of the remains of Menander's Eunouchos and Kolax

With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa

His swashbuckling hero has legions of fans across the world and his adventures are as exhilarating now as they were on first publication in the 1950s

The themes of its eight chapters are amor

and the fear that growth inspired in Sparta

notes and a full vocabulary

Prudentius was a strong Christian who admired the old pagan literature and art