Download or read book Arcadian Days written by John Spurling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus and Antigone, Achilles and Thetis, and Odysseus and Penelope. Award-winning historical novelist and playwright John Spurling draws on his lifelong love and knowledge of Classical Greek drama and poetry to reanimate five great male–female storylines from the Greek myths. The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage, and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world—earth, sea, and sky, represented by powerful gods and monsters. Taking inspiration from the incomparably beautiful and intense poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, John Spurling—a lifelong classicist and an award-winning playwright—spins five myths for contemporary readers. These captivating tales center on male-female pairs—Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and the sorceress Medea, Oedipus and his daughter Antigone, Achilles and his mother Thetis, Odysseus and Penelope—who, in the course of their stories, destroyed dynasties, raised and felled heroes, and sealed the fates of men.
Download or read book Arcadian Days Gods Women and Men from Greek Myth From the Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction written by John Spurling and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Greek Gods Heroes and Men written by Caroline H Harding and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1897 Edition.
Download or read book Stories of Greek Gods Heroes and Men a Primer of the Mythology and History of the Greeks written by Samuel Bannister Harding and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Arcadian Nights written by John Spurling and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant, gripping and often grisly retelling of the Greek myths, stories of murder, power, revenge, love, and traumatic family relationships are made new again for our time with wit and relish by a gifted author. Spurling has added scene, dialogue, and context, while always staying true to the spirit of the original myth. Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese, where the stories are set, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon, including tales of the doomed house of Atreus (notably Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, murdered by his wife in his palace bathroom); of the god Apollo; goddess Athene; Theseus, scourge of the Minotaur; the Twelve Labors of Heracles; and Perseus, rescuer of Andromeda.
Download or read book Death and the Maiden written by Ken Dowden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins – slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees, and punished in Hades. Death and the Maiden, first published in 1989, contextualises this mythology in terms of geography, history and culture, and offers a comprehensive theory firmly grounded in an ubiquitous ritual: pubescent girls’ rites of passage. By means of comparative anthropology, it is argued that many local ceremonies are echoed throughout the whole range of myths, both famous and obscure. Further, Professor Dowden examines boys’ rites, as well as the renewal of entire communities at regular intervals. The first full-length work in English devoted to passage-rites in Greek myth, Death and the Maiden is an important contribution to the exciting developments in the study of the interrelation between myth and ritual: from it an innovative view on the origination of many Greek myths emerges.
Download or read book Gods in Our Midst written by Christine Downing and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable series of books Christine Downing has given us "perfected" as well as ambivalent images of the great goddesses of classical antiquity. In her latest book she turns to the "gods in our midst", the gods as they appear to women, and she shows how these energies and epiphanies embodied in male gods help us to see who we are and what we might become.
Download or read book Gods Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece written by William Henry Denham Rouse and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece written by William Henry Denham Rouse and published by Signet. This book was released on 1957 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful versions of exciting mythological stories.
Download or read book The Gods and Goddesses of Greek Mythology written by Don Nardo and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origins of the most important Greek myths along with the personalities and special powers of the major Greek gods and goddesses.
Download or read book Men and Gods written by Rex Warner and published by Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1950 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.
Download or read book Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece written by Edward E. Barthell and published by Coral Gables, Fla : University of Miami Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on Greek mythology with genealogical tables tracing the lineage of the many divine gods and important figures in these mythological tales.
Download or read book The Gods of Greece written by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington and published by New York : Abrams. This book was released on 1983 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Gods, Greek Mythology.
Download or read book The Stories of the Greeks written by Rex Warner and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1978-04-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-volume compilation of the author's 3 previously published books on the gods, heroes, and wars of ancient Greece
Download or read book Gods Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece written by William Henry Denham Rouse and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dionysus Myth and Cult written by Walter Friedrich Otto and published by Midland Books. This book was released on 1965 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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