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Lycophron

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lycophron was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem Alexandra is attributed (perhaps falsely). He was born at Chalcis in Euboea, and flourished at Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus (285-247 BC). According to the Suda, the massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia, he was the son of Socles, but was adopted by Lycus of Rhegium. He was entrusted by Ptolemy with the task of arranging the comedies in the Library of Alexandria; as the result of his labours he composed a treatise On Comedy. Lycophron is also said to have been a skilful writer of anagrams.

Samuel Robert Graves

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Samuel Robert Graves (7 June 1818 - 18 Jan 1873) was an Irish-born businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1865 to 1873. Graves was the son of William Graves and his wife Sarah Elly daughter of Samuel Elly of New Ross. He was educated at a private school at New Ross. He was a merchant and shipowner, and a director of the London and North Western Railway. In 1861 he was mayor of Liverpool. He was a Member of the Royal Commission to inquire into the management of Lights, Buoys, and Beacons. He was commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club and author of "National Dangers," and " A Cruise in the Baltic."

The Greek Myths

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Greek Myths (1955) is a mythography, a compendium of Greek mythology, by the poet and writer Robert Graves, normally published in two volumes. Each myth is presented in the voice of a narrator writing under the Antonines, such as Plutarch or Pausanias, with citations of the classical sources. The literary quality of these retellings is generally praised. Each myth is followed by Graves' interpretation of its origin and significance, following his theories on a prehistoric Matriarchal religion as presented in his White Goddess and elsewhere. These theories and his etymologies are rejected by classical scholarship. Graves dismissed such criticism, arguing that by definition classical scholars lacked "the poetic capacity to forensically examine mythology".

Carcanet Press

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade. In 2000 it was named the Sunday Times millennium Small Publisher of the Year. Four of its authors have received Nobel Prizes, nine have received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, six have received Pulitzer Prizes, among many other honours. Carcanet publishes a comprehensive and diverse list of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation.

Last Post

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Last Post can be either a B bugle call within British infantry regiments or an E cavalry trumpet call in British cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery regiments used at Commonwealth military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have fallen in war. The two regimental traditions have separate music for the calls (see Trumpet & Bugle Calls for the British Army 1966). Whilst the infantry (B bugle) version is the better known of the two versions of the call the E cavalry trumpet version is the tune used by the state trumpeters of the Household Cavalry. "The Last Post" is also the name of a poem by Robert Graves describing a soldier's funeral during World War I. The Last Post call (2nd Post) is used in British Army camps to signal the end of the day when the duty officer returns from the tour of the camp and quarters.

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