Author : Elsa Brants
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2017-05-17T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Humor
ISBN :
Pythia and the other residents of Delphi try their best to clear out their city. Meanwhile, Dionysis attempts to reinvent himself as a wine-taster. Completely drunk, Dionysis chugs down the city's entire stock of wine. Apparently the gods can't live together with mortals without causing trouble.
Author : Elsa Brants
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2016-10-19T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Pythia lives in Delphi, in Ancient Greece, and between her classes at high school and her part-time job at the temple of Apollo, she leads quite a normal, boring life... until the day that she refuses Apollo's advances and he places upon her a terrible curse. She is now able to predict the future, but whenever she sees a catastrophic event on the horizon, no one believes her warnings and she is helpless to stop it from taking place. However, her new skills draw the interest some of the highest authorities: Zeus, the king of the Gods, entrusts her with a mission. Zeus has fathered yet another bastard child, a boy named Xanthos, and his wife Hera is on the war path. Wherever Xanthos goes, she rains down misfortunes and disasters, but maybe Pythia's prophecies could help the arrogant young Xanthos to survive the wrath of Hera.
Author : Prosperi Buri
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2021-05-26T02:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
The Beach Boys and the Beatles are filling up the airwaves, but halfway between California and Liverpool, another band is putting together a sound that will change rock ‘n’ roll forever. Andy Warhol discovers the Velvet Underground in a little tourist bar in New York, and he soon becomes the producer for this group whose songs aren’t so much about girls and hot rods but shooting up, alternative lifestyles, and the melancholy after the party. It’s the late sixties, but not quite everything is flower power. The radio wants nothing to do with the Velvets, but the cool kids know who they are, and the enormous influence of this short-lived band has yet to abate.
Author : Alary Pierre
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2020-12-16T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
The year is 1849, and the future state of California is under the control of former soldiers from the Mexican-American War. Their leader, General Gomez, is busy buying up the locals' land for pennies on the dollar, so that he and his cronies can maximize their profits from the coming gold rush. But he and his men are dogged by a series of masked, would-be avengers all calling themselves Zorro. They are an almost laughable annoyance, simple peasants living out the fantasy of a local legend. Until one man shows up and starts picking off Gomez's men one by one, as stealthy as a fox. He brandishes a sword which he uses to carve the letter Z into his victims' cheeks... Could this be the true Zorro?
Author : Fabio Porzia
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042951617
'Ancient Greek and Semitic languages resorted to a large range of words to name the divine. Gods and goddesses were called by a variety of names and combinations of onomastic attributes. This broad lexicon of names is characterised by plurality and a tendency to build on different sequences of names; therefore, the Mapping Ancient Polytheisms project focuses on the process of naming the divine in order to better understand the ancient divine in terms of a plurality in the making. A fundamental rule for reading ancient divine names is to grasp them in their context - time and place, a ritual, the form of the discourse, a cultural milieu...: a deity is usually named according to a specific situation. From Artemis Eulochia to al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat, from Melqart to "my rock" in the biblical book of Psalms, this volume journeys between the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and late antique magical practices, revisiting rituals, hymnic poetry, oaths of orators and philosophical prayers. While targeting different names in different contexts, the contributors draft theoretical propositions towards a dynamic approach of naming the divine in antiquity.'
Author : Karen Chance
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1742533426
Cassandra Palmer recently defeated a god, which you'd think would buy a girl a little time off. But when your job is being Pythia - the world's chief clairvoyant - you don't get a lot of R&R. Cassie is busier than ever, discovering her power, figuring out her complicated relationship with enigmatic and sexy vampire Mircea, and preparing for her upcoming coronation. But someone is dead-set against Cassie becoming Pythia, and will go to any lengths to stop the coronation ceremony from happening - including making sure that Cassie is never born. Now, Cassie has to save herself - and the world, if she can find the time ...
Author : Kevin Sands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534405232
Wherever Christopher Rowe goes, adventure--and murder--follows. Even a chance to meet King Charles ends in a brush with an assassin. In this third heart-pounding installment of the award-winning series, Christopher, Tom, and Sally face new codes, puzzles, and traps as they race to find a hidden treasure before someone else is murdered. 5 1/2 x 8 5/16.
Author : Galen A. Johnson
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823288145
Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature. From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of “sensible ideas,” from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as “co-naissance,” from Valéry came “implex” or the “animal of words” and the “chiasma of two destinies.” Literature also provokes the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontian poetics. The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, the book argues, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. Ultimately, theoretical figures or “figuratives” that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression.
Author : Elsa Brants
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2017-03-15T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Humor
ISBN :
In the previous book, Cassandra announced to Xanthos that three unbeatable winged creatures would attack him. Not long after, Pythia a Elecantha lose all trace of Xanthos. Who are these creatures chasing Xanthos? What exactly do they want?
Author : Vincent Brugeas
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2018-07-18T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
A Norman by the name of Tancred makes landfall in Sicily with a motley international mercenary crew. A figure of mystery and danger, he soon proves himself a fierce blade and a cunning strategist, but why has he come? Revenge on the embattled Lord Harald now besieging Taormina? The fabulous wealth of the Qaids hidden within the city? Why does Tancred travel with a papal legate who calls him Robert? What disgraceful past is he trying desperately to hide? It's every man for himself in this intrigue of shifting alliances and sudden death, set against the backdrop of Sicily's Norman conquest.
