Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0190857889
This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates Cheiron the Centaur, ancient Greece's first teacher; traces the influential trajectory of the Iliadic Achilles; and offers readings of the Odyssey, Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis.
Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504089421
A bumbling elf girl and a shapeshifting prince must rescue a kidnapped flying centaur in this humorous fantasy adventure by a New York Times–bestseller. Shapeshifting Prince Dolph can take on almost any form he chooses but he can’t decide on whom to marry. Dolph has two fiancées: Nada Naga and Electra. While he prefers Nada to Electra, Nada has no interest in him. Meanwhie, Electra loves Dolph and if she doesn’t marry him, she’ll die. Fortunately, a convenient catastrophe arises that requires Dolph’s immediate attention. Goblins have kidnapped young Che Centaur. Their only lead is an elflike girl named Jenny from the World of the Two Moons whose nearsighted vision has gotten her lost. With her leading the way, there’s no telling where this search for the missing centaur will go.
Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110532115
This book offers a new edition and comprehensive commentary of the extant fragments of genealogical and antiquarian epic dating to the archaic period (8th-6th cent. BC). By means of a detailed study of the multifaceted material pertaining to the remains of archaic Greek epic other than Homer, Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymns, it provides readers with a critical reassessment of the ancient evidence, allows access to new material hitherto unnoticed or scattered in various journals after the publication of the three standard editions now available to us, and offers a full-scale commentary of the extant fragments. This book fills a gap in the study of archaic Greek poetry, since it offers a guiding tool for the further exploration of Greek epic tradition in the archaic period and beyond.
Author : Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0191035165
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields. As well as an introduction to, and a survey of, each topic, it provides guidance on further reading for those who wish to study a particular area in greater depth. Both the realities and the more theoretical aspects of the treatment of animals in ancient times are covered in chapters which explore the domestication of animals, animal husbandry, animals as pets, Aesop's Fables, and animals in classical art and comedy, all of which closely examine the nature of human-animal interaction. More abstract and philosophical topics are also addressed, including animal communication, early ideas on the origin of species, and philosophical vegetarianism and the notion of animal rights.
Author : Floris Overduin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004283609
In modern times the Theriaca of Nicander of Colophon (2nd century BCE) has not attracted many enthusiasts. Its complicated style, abstruse diction and technical subject matter – venomous bites and their remedies – have long put off classical scholars. In the wake of renewed interest in Hellenistic poetry, however, Nicander’s dark poetry deserves new appreciation. In this book Floris Overduin provides a literary commentary on the Theriaca, focusing on Nicander’s artistic merits. Viewed against the background of Alexandrian aesthetics and the didactic epic tradition, Nicander deserves pride of place among his Hellenistic peers. This book, the first full commentary in English, may thus contribute to the reappraisal of Nicander’s Theriaca as a work of literature, not science.
Author : Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Publisher : Fisher King Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 098103442X
Who is She, this Sister from Below? She's certainly not about the ordinary business of life: work, shopping, making dinner. She speaks from other realms. If you'll allow, She'll whisper in your ear, lead your thoughts astray, fill you with strange yearnings, get you hot and bothered, send you off on some wild goose chase of a daydream, eat up hours of your time. She's a siren, a seductress, a shapeshifter . . . Why listen to such a troublemaker? Because She is essential to the creative process: She holds the keys to the doors of our imaginations and deeper life the evolution of Soul.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 1999-12-18
Category :
ISBN :
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Author : Nsentip Ukpong Nsentip D.Fsc PhD
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1489729127
Believe it, if you can! I don’t know though, but they say that a tectonic event very much unparalleled in history had occurred here in Bokoko in multiple myriads of years ago, just as people claim for a fact that our silvery moon was at some time ago exceedingly close to earth to be clearly noticed; and really believed to be nothing else, but a very true claim of a smiling happy face of the moon. The extraordinary episode which had successfully taken place and gone, concerned a monumental visit and a phenomenal marriage between Cheiron the Ancient Centaur; a son of a water nymph with a Titan’s god of Greece to an all-powerful marvelously beautiful deep ocean water goddess, Asianama of Bokoko, in Docoland. Greece, the beautiful land and home of the Hellenes overlooks Egypt and the Libyan sands from afar in north Africa over the massive Mediterranean Sea.
Author : Ada Cohen
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0876615418
This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.
Author : Jennifer Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190286903
Greek Nymphs: Myths, Cult, Lore is the first comprehensive study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. This well-illustrated book examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer through the Hellenistic period. Drawing upon a broad range of literary and archaeological evidence, Jennifer Larson discusses sexually powerful nymphs in ancient and modern Greek folklore, the use of dolls representing nymphs in the socialization of girls, the phenomenon of nympholepsy, the nymphs' relations with other deities in the Greek pantheon, and the nymphs' role in mythic narratives of city-founding and colonization. The book includes a survey of the evidence for myths and cults of the nymphs arranged by geographical region, and a special section of the worship of nymphs in caves throughout the Greek world.
