Odyssey Presents: Medusa #1


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After cutting herself on the sword that beheaded the original Medusa, Gloria Merrick is transformed into Medusa. Medusa's sisters Stheno and Euryale (whom are also hideous Gorgon creatures) are none too pleased that Gloria is masquerading as their dearly departed sister and they want to see her dead. Can Gloria survive Medusa's sisters? Will Stheno and Euryale come to see that Gloria is carrying on Medusa's work?




Odyssey Presents: Girls Rule: Volume 1


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TidalWave Productions is known for having developed some of the iconic female characters in independent comic books such as the 10th Muse, Legend of Isis and Judo Girl. This brand new graphic novel features not only Isis but some of the other TidalWave classic characters such as Venus, Valkyrie, Victoria's Secret Service, Gearz and Black Scorpion. Together for the 1st time in over 100 pages!




Odyssey Presents: Girls Rule: Volume 2


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TidalWave Productions is known for having developed some of the iconic female characters in independent comic books such as the 10th Muse, Legend of Isis and Judo Girl. This brand new graphic novel features not only 10th Muse but some of the other TidalWave classic characters such as Venus, Blackbeard Legacy, Victoria's Secret Service and Judo Girl. Together for the 1st time in over 100 pages!




Odyssey Presents: Absolute Power


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A God War Crossover! The Odyssey returns in this stunning 48-page special continuing the events from The 10th Muse #11! The 10th Muse is mad with power and has taken control of Mt. Olympus. Now, with Grayson Bishop at her side, she launches the Titan warriors to invade Earth and to assassinate all earthbound Olympians. The lines between enemies and heroes become crossed when the evil Medusa joins forces with Judo Girl, Atlas, Orion the Hunter, Wonder Boy, and the Valkyrie to stop their former ally. Along the way, new faces will emerge, such as The Red Muse, Camelot, Sigma, and Leveax of the Witch Kids. Can The Odyssey stop the destruction of the Earth? Will Grayson Bishop complete his corruption of The 10th Muse? And where is Emma Sonnet during all of this? Find out in this special, GIANT-sized issue!




Cellini's Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi


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Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal power; but the physical similarity between Cellini’s characters suggests the hero rose through female agency. Dr. Corretti argues that although not a surrogate for powerful Medici women, Cellini’s Medusa may have reminded viewers that Cosimo I de’ Medici’s power stemmed in part from maternal influence. Drawing upon a vast body of art and literature, Dr. Corretti concludes that Cellini and his contemporaries knew the Gorgon as a version of the Earth Mother, whose image is found in art for Medici women.




Odyssey Presents: Anthology #2


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TidalWave's superhero group is featured in this one shot. Trident, the hero from beneath the sea, and Wonder Boy, superhero for hire-- these are just a few of characters you'll find inside Odyssey: Anthology! All of TidalWave's greatest heroes can be found in one place! Don't miss out on these never-before-seen stories. Art by Sean Murphy and Norm Breyfogle




The Lost Books of the Odyssey


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A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.




Heroic Tropes


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Of Bourignon and Guyon, the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, the letters of Sevigne to her daughter, and the autobiographical works of Rousseau and Sand, Daly traces recurring patterns of narrative innovation that seem convincingly linked to both the author's gender and the gender of characters. Her final chapter analyzes theoretical writings by Cixous and Kristeva in terms of the fictional paradigms she has established. As it addresses heroic narratives of the.




A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6


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Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).




From Narnia to A Space Odyssey


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From Narnia To A Space Odyssey is the dialogue--through fiction, non-fiction, and correspondence--in which Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis debate, discuss, and consider the great hope and potential dangers of the rise of technology. Their encounter sets the stage for a question we face today: Is technology the beauty that will lead to a more utopian society, or is it the beast that endangers our humanity and spirit? About the Author Editor Ryder W. Miller is a noted commentator and environmental reporter, eco-critic and science writer with a strong interest in space exploration and space policy.