In examining the past, was it deemed important to curb the free play of imagination or was it thought that any explanation, no matter how fanciful and irrational, was better than none? This is the question that this book attempts to answer.

When her lover is killed by another barbarian, Galla Placidiadaughter of an emperor, sister of an emperor, and mother of an emperoris left with the task of continuing the story of Rome.

But this is only part of the story since Woody s life is reflected and refracted into a thousand other tales yes, hints of Scheherazade! lived out in other times and other contexts. __________ Latine Libri epitome: In pictura textili sua, ...

But this is only part of the story since Woody s life is reflected and refracted into a thousand other tales yes, hints of Scheherazade! lived out in other times and other contexts. __________ Latine Libri epitome: In pictura textili sua, ...

... fabula \ ' fab - yə - lə , ' fäb - yů - lä \ plural fabulae \ - , lē , lī \ [ Latin ] In addition to meaning " talk , " " story , " or " fable , " Latin fabula was a general word for " play " ; particular types included the fab- ula ...