Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
ISBN : 9781858814308
A picture book based on the legend of Arion, the young musician whose friendship with the dolphin that saves his life is ended when the dolphin is captured and dies. Jane Ray's luscious, evocative paintings harmonize with the text, a wonderful mixture of verse and prose adapted from Vikram Seth's libretto for an opera commissioned by the English National Opera.
Author : Saviour Pirotta
Publisher : Orchard (NY)
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Arion (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 9781846164743
This series offers friendly and accessible Greek myth retellings, with clear type and illustrations. Arion was the greatest poet in the world. On his way home from a far-off land, sailors want to steal his treasure and leave him to drown. Who will save him?
Author : George Ratcliffe Woodward
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 1929
Category :
ISBN :
Sailing home with a prize of gold won in a contest, Arion faces death at the hands of the crew who covet his treasure.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387050372
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9789354471667
Author : H. L. Levy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1989-09-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226476014
Selections from Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, The Lives of Nepos, Phaedrus' Fables in verse, and some Caesar are carefully aimed to interest and challenge, but not overtax, the college student who is not yet ready for complicated readings in Latin.
Author : Marie-Claire Beaulieu
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0812247655
In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.
Author : François Bernard Mâche
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783718653218
François Bernard-Mâche here uses music-related myths and ancient as well as more recent history to show the underlying relationship between musical thought and certain natural laws. Using original analytical techniques, he sheds new light on the history of music, showing the presence of music in the animal world to demonstrate that Nature and culture are not in opposition.
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Operas
ISBN : 9781897580462
This is the first publication of Vikram Seth's libretto to coincide with the Bayliss programme, ENO's first performance of it in June 1994.
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Arion and the Dolphin is an opera in nine scenes for professionals and community performers. The libretto is by Vikram Seth and the music is composed by Alec Roth. Recounted with Seth s inimitable charm, it is the story of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in Corinth. Thrown overboard on his return from a musical contest in Sicily, Arion is saved and befriended by a dolphin.
