Download or read book Gorgo s Mother written by Laurence Klavan and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gorgo written by Charles Kelsey Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dinosaurs Ever Evolving written by Allen A. Debus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "life through time" narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold "evolution" of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century.
Download or read book Essays by Matthew Arnold written by Matthew Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World written by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a woman in power are signs, in the Western tradition, of 'otherness' – and in this sense they can easily overlap and interchange. This volume investigates how ancient women, and particularly powerful women, such as queens and empresses, have been re-imagined in Western (and not only Western) arts; highlights how this re-imagination and re-visualization is, more often than not, the product of Orientalist stereotypes – even when dealing with women who had nothing to do with Eastern regions; and compares these images with examples of Eastern gaze on the same women. Through the chapters in this volume, readers will discover the similarities and differences in the ways in which women in power were and still are described and decried by their opponents.
Download or read book Cooking Club Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonidas of Sparta written by Schrader Helena P. and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come and take them Book III in the Leonidas Trilogy Persia has crushed the Ionian revolt and is gathering a massive army to invade and punish mainland Greece, but in Sparta the dangers seem closer to home. The Eurypontid king Demaratus is accused of being a usurper, while the Agiad king Cleomenes is going dangerously mad. More and more Spartans turn to Leonidas, Cleomenes's half-brother and son-in-law, to provide leadership. But Leonidas is the younger of twins, and his brother Brotus has no intention of letting Leonidas lay claim to the Agiad throne without a fight. This novel follows Leonidas and Gorgo as they steer Sparta through the dangerous waters of domestic strife and external threat, working together as a team to make Sparta the best it can be. But the forces that will destroy not only Leonidas but his Sparta are already gathering -- not just in Persepolis and Sardis, but in the hubris of a rising Athens and the bigotry and xenophobia of his fellow Spartans. The murder of two Persian ambassadors by an agitated Spartan Assembly sets in train the inevitable conflict between Sparta and Persia that will take Leonidas to Thermopylae -- and into history. This is the third book in a trilogy of biographical novels about Leonidas and Gorgo. The first book, A Boy of the Agoge, described Leonidas's childhood in the Spartan public school. The second, A Peerless Peer, focused on his years as an ordinary citizen. This third book describes his rise to power, his reign, and his death.
Download or read book Leonidas of Sparta written by Helena P. Schrader and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparta at the start of the fifth century BC is in crisis. The Argives are attacking Sparta's vulnerable island of Kythera, but King Cleomenes is more interested in meddling in Athenian affairs. His co-monarch, King Demaratus, opposes Cleomenes' ambitions, and soon the kings are at each other's throats. Exploiting this internal conflict, Corinth launches a challenge to Spartan control of the Peloponnesian League, while across the Aegean Sea, the Greek cities of Ionia are in rebellion against Persia -- and pleading for Spartan aid. King Cleomenes' youngest half-brother Leonidas has only just attained citizenship. He has no reason to expect that this revolt will shape his destiny. At twenty-one, Leonidas is just an ordinary ranker in the Spartan army, less interested in high politics than putting his private life in order. He needs to find reliable tenants to restore his ruined estate, and, most important, to find the right woman to be his bride. Meanwhile, his niece Gorgo is growing up. Not particularly pretty, she is, nevertheless, precocious and courageous -- qualities that get her into trouble more than once. This is the story of both Leonidas and Gorgo in the years before Leonidas becomes king of Sparta and before the first Persian invasion of Greece sets Leonidas on the road to Thermopylae. This is the second book in a trilogy of biographical novels about Leonidas and Gorgo. The first book, A Boy of the Agoge, described Leonidas's childhood in Sparta's infamous public school. This second book focuses on his years as an ordinary citizen, and the third will describe his reign and death.
Download or read book The Horror Comics written by William Schoell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the '60s, up until the early '80s--the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group's Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics' Frankenstein, and the controversial and gory comics of the '40s, such as EC's infamous and influential Tales from the Crypt. The resurgence of monster-horror titles during the '60s is explored, along with the return of horror anthologies like Dell Comics' Ghost Stories and Charlton's Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House. The explosion of horror titles following the relaxation of the comics code in the '70s is fully documented with chapters on Marvel's prodigious output--The Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night and others--DC's anthologies--Witching Hour and Ghosts--and titles such as Swamp Thing, as well as the notable contributions of firms like Gold Key and Atlas. This book examines how horror comics exploited everyday terrors, and often reflected societal attitudes toward women and people who were different.
Download or read book Gorgo The Foul written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jodorowsky and Mœbius’s internationally bestselling Sci-Fi saga THE INCAL comes to its phenomenal finale!
Download or read book My Commonplace Book written by James Thompson Hackett and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Ancient Greek Poetry written by Sir Robert Samuel Wright and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions written by Manchester Literary Club and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Manchester bibliography for 1880-85 by Charles William Sutton.
Download or read book The Magic Book of Answers written by Yana Kovarik- Drust and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Colin finds an old leather book with a red stone in the woods, a new world opens to him. At first the books pages are blank to Colins disappointment, but once he starts asking questions, writing appears on the pages and tells him the Books story and how Mystero stole it from his original master Aristo. Meanwhile, Mystero is desperate to get his hands on that book and sends his familiar, Gorgo to search for it. Snoop! Snoop! He tells him- Someone is bound to have and use its power. Gorgo is basically a good sort and misses his old master Aristo very much, but he is also terrified of Mystero, so it takes him a while to decide which side to join: good or evil. He is helped by a vision of Aristo reminding him to look into his heart.
Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by George Smith and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus written by Theocritus and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Thought written by Charles Force Deems and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
