Download or read book Gli dei dell Olimpo Storie e miti del mondo classico written by AA.VV., and published by Edizioni Mondadori. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dal potente Zeus, re degli dei, alla splendida Afrodite dea dell'amore e della bellezza; da Poseidone signore dei mari a Ermes famoso messaggero; passando da Era, dea della guerra, ad Apollo, dio del Sole, da Dioniso a Eros. Le più importanti divinità del mondo antico, con i loro poteri, le loro storie e il rapporto non sempre facile con gli esseri umani; tutto quello che avreste sempre voluto sapere sui mitici abitanti dell'Olimpo.
Download or read book Gli dei dell Olimpo Storie e miti del mondo classico written by Andrea Marcolongo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Goddess Test written by Aimée Carter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won't live past the fall. Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests. Kate is sure he's crazy—until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride, and a goddess.
Download or read book The Parasite written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1894 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 24. The spring is fairly with us now. Outside my laboratory window the great chestnut-tree is all covered with the big, glutinous, gummy buds, some of which have already begun to break into little green shuttlecocks. As you walk down the lanes you are conscious of the rich, silent forces of nature working all around you. The wet earth smells fruitful and luscious. Green shoots are peeping out everywhere. The twigs are stiff with their sap; and the moist, heavy English air is laden with a faintly resinous perfume. Buds in the hedges, lambs beneath them-everywhere the work of reproduction going forward! I can see it without, and I can feel it within. We also have our spring when the little arterioles dilate, the lymph flows in a brisker stream, the glands work harder, winnowing and straining. Every year nature readjusts the whole machine. I can feel the ferment in my blood at this very moment, and as the cool sunshine pours through my window I could dance about in it like a gnat. So I should, only that Charles Sadler would rush upstairs to know what was the matter. Besides, I must remember that I am Professor Gilroy. An old professor may afford to be natural, but when fortune has given one of the first chairs in the university to a man of four-and-thirty he must try and act the part consistently.
Download or read book The Forests of Norbio written by Giuseppe Dessì and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1975 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mitologia classica written by Felice Ramorino and published by HOEPLI EDITORE. This book was released on 2018-04-05T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Mitologia classica illustrata raccoglie in modo organico tutti i miti di dei ed eroi del mondo classico greco e latino, con esempi letterari e illustrazioni dalla storia dell’arte. La nuova edizione, la diciassettesima, a 120 anni dalla prima pubblicazione nel 1897, è stata completamente rivista e riscritta, per rendere questo classico manuale fruibile per il lettore di oggi, e presenta un apparato iconografico interamente rinnovato. Una lettura da affrontare tutta d’un fiato oppure saltando da un mito all’altro. La presenza di un indice alfabetico dei nomi consente al lettore di scegliere i percorsi di ricerca più adatti ai propri interessi. A partire da cosmogonia e teogonia, titanomachia e gigantomachia, le divinità sono introdotte suddivise in tre gruppi, a seconda dell’elemento naturale che le contraddistingue: dei del cielo (da Zeus ad Apollo, da Afrodite ad Artemide), del mare (da Poseidone alle Sirene), della terra (da Dioniso a Demetra). Seguono gli eroi, distinti a seconda delle leggende locali (Sisifo, Teseo, Eracle), delle imprese cui parteciparono (ciclo tebano e troiano), fino a eroi poeti, vati e artisti (Orfeo, Lino, Marsia). I miti greci sono affiancati dalla corrispondente versione del mondo romano. Ogni parte presenta: il racconto essenziale del mito, delle sue varianti e delle genealogie; una contestualizzazione e un’interpretazione con note di civiltà classica; esempi tratti dalla letteratura e dalle arti figurative, con illustrazioni.
Download or read book Introduction to the Semiotics of the Text written by Gianfranco Marrone and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books aims to demonstrate how semiotic models of textual analysis can be used to study any social reality or cultural process. In addition, it shows how semiotic models work by using examples from everyday life and social praxis, communicative processes and modes of consumption, online interactions and cross-media procedures, political experiences and scientific universes.
Download or read book On Tyranny written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.
Download or read book Odissea Storie e miti del mondo classico written by AA.VV., and published by Edizioni Mondadori. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dopo aver combattuto per dieci anni nella Guerra di Troia, Ulisse, Re di Itaca, finalmente può far ritorno a casa, ma il viaggio si rivela molto più lungo e avventuroso del previsto: dall'isola dei Ciclopi con il terribile Polifemo, all'incontro con la maga Circe che trasforma tutti i suoi compagni in maiali; dal letale richiamo delle sirene alla discesa nell'Ade, il regno dei morti. Fronteggiando con l'intelligenza i capricci degli dei e con l'ingegno le sfide degli uomini, l'eroe greco più famoso e astuto di tutti i tempi vivrà un'avventura incredibile per far ritorno nella sua terra, riprendersi il trono usurpato e riabbracciare la sua amata Penelope.
Download or read book International Bibliography of History of Education and Children s Literature 2013 written by Dorena Caroli and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Athenian Woman written by Sian Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting. Ceramics are an unparalleled resource for women's lives in ancient Greece, since they show a huge number of female types and activities. Yet it can be difficult to interpret the meanings of these images, especially when they seem to conflict with literary sources. This much-needed study shows that it is vital to see the vases as archaeology as well as art, since context is the key to understanding which images can stand as evidence for the real lives of women, and which should be reassessed.
Download or read book Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society written by Marcel Detienne and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of Photius written by Saint Photius I (Patriarch of Constantinople) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seventh Letter written by Plato and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventh Letter - Plato - Sophist - Plato - Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Plato is one of the most important Western philosophers, exerting influence on virtually every figure in philosophy after him. His dialogue The Republic is known as the first comprehensive work on political philosophy. Plato also contributed foundationally to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. His student, Aristotle, is also an extremely influential philosopher and the tutor of Alexander the Great of Macedonia Plato is widely considered a pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle. He has often been cited as one of the founders of Western religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of philosophers, such as Plotinus and Porphyry, greatly influenced Christianity through Church Fathers such as Augustine. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." Plato was an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. Plato is also considered the founder of Western political philosophy. His most famous contribution is the theory of Forms known by pure reason, in which Plato presents a solution to the problem of universals known as Platonism (also ambiguously called either Platonic realism or Platonic idealism). He is also the namesake of Platonic love and the Platonic solids. His own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been, along with Socrates, the pre-Socratics Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself. Unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years. Although their popularity has fluctuated, Plato's works have consistently been read and studied. Little can be known about Plato's early life and education due to the very limited accounts. Plato came from one of the wealthiest and most politically active families in Athens. Ancient sources describe him as a bright though modest boy who excelled in his studies. His father contributed everything necessary to give to his son a good education, and Plato therefore must have been instructed in grammar, music, gymnastics and philosophy by some of the most distinguished teachers of his era.
Download or read book Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry written by Emily Vermeule and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their poetic and artistic energy to exploring themes of death. Vermeule examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the value of heroic death in battle, the quest for immortality, the linked powers of death, sleep, and love, and more. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Download or read book Curtius Rufus Histories of Alexander the Great Book 10 written by and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a translation, with commentary, of a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Book 10 of Curtius' Histories covers the reign of terror and mutiny that followed upon Alexander's return from India; and offers the fullest account of the power struggle that began in Babylon immediately after his death. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius Rufus (quite probably a Roman Senator of the first century AD), and his agenda as a historian. John Yardley's translation and the commentary are designed for the reader without Latin. The Commentary provides detailed analysis of the historical events of the crucial period 325-3 BC covered by Curtius, and also tries to get behind the surface level of meaning to show how Curtius intended his history to be a text for his time. Curtius' text is also examined as a literary achievement in its own right.
