Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442485957
Seeking to become immortal like the other Goddess Girls, Medusa searches for a magical necklace, an effort that is compromised by her mean reputation, her snaky hair, and unexpected consequences.
Author : Stephen R. Wilk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019988773X
Medusa, the Gorgon, who turns those who gaze upon her to stone, is one of the most popular and enduring figures of Greek mythology. Long after many other figures from Greek myth have been forgotten, she continues to live in popular culture. In this fascinating study of the legend of Medusa, Stephen R. Wilk begins by refamiliarizing readers with the story through ancient authors and classical artwork, then looks at the interpretations that have been given of the meaning of the myth through the years. A new and original interpretation of the myth is offered, based upon astronomical phenomena. The use of the gorgoneion, the Face of the Gorgon, on shields and on roofing tiles is examined in light of parallels from around the world, and a unique interpretation of the reality behind the gorgoneion is suggested. Finally, the history of the Gorgon since tlassical times is explored, culminating in the modern use of Medusa as a symbol of Female Rage and Female Creativity.
Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442488298
When Medusa suddenly gains the "Midas touch," she is delighted, but as it dawns on her that it is more curse than blessing, she seeks a cure.
Author : Ross Collins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781410407795
In ancient Greece lives a little girl called Medusa Jones, a Gorgon. Medusas sure the school camping trip is going to be a nightmare. A rock fall puts the popular kids in peril, and Medusas the only one who can help. Will she be a hero--or is her monster side finally going to come out? Illustrations.
Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442420987
These classic myths from the Greek pantheon are given a modern twist that contemporary tweens can relate to, from dealing with bullies like Medusa to a first crush on an unlikely boy. Goddess Girls follows four goddesses-in-training – Athena, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Artemis – as they navigate the ins and outs of divine social life at Mount Olympus Academy, where the most priviledged gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon hone their mythical skills. In book 5, Principal Zeus asks Athena to help Heracles (aka Hercules in the Roman pantheon) complete his twelve labors. But when Heracles starts borrowing Athena's friends things without asking, will she be able to help him set things straight?
Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442485949
Athletic Artemis rails against the all-boys' Olympic Games at Mount Olympus Academy, which leaves her at odds with her twin brother, Apollo, while a mortal boy named Actaeon catches her eye.
Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442474785
Original publication and copyright date: 2011.
Author : Lewis Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1101667060
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.
Author : Tera Lynn Childs
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1848779372
Meet Grace, who just moved to San Francisco. It's a tiny bit scary starting over, but it gets scarier when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks exactly like Grace turns up to fight it. . . Gretchen is fed up of monsters pulling her out into the small hours, especially on a school night. Getting rid of a minotaur is just another notch on her combat belt, but she never expected to run into a girl who could be her double in the process. . . Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But everything tilts sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're all sisters. . . These three teen descendants of Medusa must reunite and embrace their fates!
Author : Vanessa Place
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2008-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1573661457
Contemporary Los Angeles. A trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others--are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to contain.
