Download or read book Gorgon Born written by Cassie Day and published by Cassie Day. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To avenge my mother, I change my fate. To alter the realm, I bargain with the fates themselves. Gorgons were once legendary for snake hair and Medusa’s stone-turning gaze. Yet years after my mother Medusa’s murder, we’re no better than other island dwellers—isolated, forgotten, and insignificant. So when a benevolent night goddess reveals the truth of who my father is and what he’s done? I leave behind all I know. Anything to seek vengeance against those who did my mother harm: god-king Zeus and his brother Poseidon. To change my fate, I journey to the city of the gods to assassinate Zeus. To truly get revenge, I’ll have to twist not just the truth, but the plan laid out by none other than Nyx. And with the god of death living in my shadow, snarking at me even as he dredges up emotions I thought long-gone, I might succeed. I’ll risk anything for revenge—my heart, my life, my fate. But when the realm falls apart, will I risk everything to bargain with the fates and save Prasinos? If you like Greek mythology, slow-burn romance filled with snark, and legendary creatures, you’ll love Gorgon Born, the second book in an unputdownable fantasy trilogy.
Download or read book Gorgon Child written by Steven Barnes and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed by those who created him, he survived a living hell to become a new kind of hero: strong enough to confront evil, yet caring enough to save a world. But now a fanatical religious leader plots to enslave the nation and tampers with the sanctity of life itself. To save America from tyranny, Aubry Knight must battle an inhuman army of super soldiers—and confront the terrors of his own past.
Download or read book Amortalis written by Solomon Bagos Hood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ah, yes, those innocent years. As swords clash, and a rainbow of blood from creatures, innocent and guilty, paints the ground, I see myself, fighting others, and fighting the demon in front of me. And soon, I am knocked to the ground, staring into that face of a crone I once thought was beautiful. The witchin actions, not in birth, powers, et ceteraolder than I once apprehended, said something, probably something satirical on my behalf, and laid her sword on one side of my neck. I awaited the meeting of my Maker, if that was the afterlife for a soul so damaged as mine. I closed my eyes, hearing that hag cackle to herself, and I reminisced on my whole life in a matter of seconds. Angels, Demons, Mermaids, Werewolves, Genies, Dragons, Vampyres, Faeries, Harpies, Wizards, Witches, and Wraiths, all in one novel? (I know, right?) Add a seventeen-year-olds coming of age and you have one jam-packed, war-filled story. Lee wakes up years later after a weird transformation and voices in his head trying to guide him. He finds that humanity is a state of mind in the demon-created world he now is a part of and his family and friends are not what they seemed. This is not your normal high school fantasy tale in Amortalis
Download or read book The Gorgon s Gaze written by Paul Coates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century focuses on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras. The author explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
Download or read book The Quest for the Kraken s Ink written by Marie-Hélène Lebeault and published by Beaches and Trails Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whispers of the Deep, Echoes of Harmony. Beneath the waves, a peaceful coexistence shatters, drawing the students of the Institute into a desperate struggle to forge alliances with the enigmatic mermaids. Will they unravel the mystery of the Krakens' wrath in time to save both their worlds? "The Quest for the Kraken's Ink" plunges readers into the heart of a deep-sea mystery, where the calm waters of Eldavon's coast are troubled by unforeseen threats. As Penelope, Herja, Kaia, and their classmates embark on their fourth year at the Institute, their studies are disrupted by a violent upheaval from the ocean's depths. The arrival of mermaids on their shores signals the start of an unexpected alliance, challenging the students to navigate the turbulent waters of diplomatic relations. With the mermaids seeking refuge from a sudden, aggressive assault by Kraken, the students must balance the urgency of their quest for kraken ink—a crucial ingredient for their magical studies—with the pressing need to broker peace beneath the waves. Amidst this chaos, they confront their own prejudices, forge new bonds, and unearth secrets that lie hidden in the marine abyss. Can they restore harmony to the underwater realm and secure the future of their magical education, or will they be swallowed by the conflicts that divide land and sea? The Quest for the Kraken’s Ink is the fourth book in the Defenders of the Realm series.
Download or read book The Gorgon s Head written by Hawthorne Nathaniel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the popular Greek myths about Perseus and Medusa. It is adapted here by Nathaniel Hawthorne for children. This story is taken from "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys." It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of this timeless story.
Download or read book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries written by David Ulansey and published by Cosmology and Salvation in the. This book was released on 1991 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets forth a new explanation of the meaning of the cult of Mithraism, tracing its origins not, as commonly held, to the ancient Persian religion, but to ancient astronomy and cosmology.
Download or read book The Gorgon s Head written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World written by Michelle Karnes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a commonplace that marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature, but also in the period's philosophic writing: magical objects with hard-to-explain powers abound. This is the first book to analyze these different bodies of writing alongside one another, comparing texts from both the Latin West (including writings in English, French, Italian, and Spanish) and in Arabic on the topic, attempting a unifying theory of marvels across different disciplines and cultures. Michelle Karnes tells an untold story of the parallels between Arabic and Latin thought, reminding us that the strange and the unfamiliar travel unusually well across a range of genres, spanning geographical and conceptual space, and offers an ideal vantage point from which to understand Arabic and Latin intercultural exchange. Employing the notion of the near-impossibility, Karnes traverses this diverse archive, marking the outer boundaries of both nature's capabilities and human creativity. Imagination, she shows, invests marvels with their character and, ultimately, their power. Skirting the distinction between the real and unreal, the true and the false, imagination, for Karnes, endows marvels with indeterminacy and import, imbuing them with inherently interdisciplinary, boundary-resistant, perplexing properties. These near-impossibilities cannot be conclusively discounted; rather, they challenge readers to discover the highest capabilities of both nature and the human intellect. Karnes offers here a rare, comparative perspective and a new methodology to study a topic long recognized to be central to medieval culture"--
Download or read book A Gorgon s Mask written by Lewis A. Lawson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of A Gorgon’s mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann’s Fiction depends upon three psychoanalytic concepts: Freud’s early work on the relationship between the infant and its mother and on the psychology of artistic creation, Annie Reich’s analysis of the grotesque-comic sublimation, and Edmund Bergler’s analysis of writer’s block. Mann’s crisis of sexual anxiety in late adolescence is presented as the defining moment for his entire artistic life. In the throes of that crisis he included a sketch of a female as Gorgon in a book that would not escape his mother’s notice. But to defend himself from being overcome by the Gorgon-mother’s stare he employed the grotesque-comic sublimation, hiding the mother figure behind fictional characters physically attractive but psychologically repellent, all the while couching his fiction in an ironic tone that evoked humor, however lacking in humor the subtext might be. In this manner he could deny to himself that the mother figure always lurked in his work, and by that denial deny that he was a victim of oral regression. For, as Edmund Bergler argues, the creative writer who acknowledges his oral dependency will inevitably succumb to writer’s block. Mann’s late work reveals that his defense against the Gorgon is crumbling. In Doctor Faustus Mann portrays Adrian Leverkühn as, ultimately, the victim of oral regression; but the fact that Mann was able to compete the novel, despite severe physical illness and psychological distress, demonstrates that he himself was still holding writer’s block at bay. In Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man, a narrative that he had abandoned forty years before, Mann was finally forced to acknowledge that he was depleted of creative vitality, but not of his capacity for irony, brilliantly couching the victorious return of the repressed in ambiguity. This study will be of interest to general readers who enjoy Mann’s narrative art, to students of Mann’s work, especially its psychological and mythological aspects, and to students of the psychology of artistic creativity.
Download or read book The Vatican Mythographers written by Ronald E. Pepin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vatican Mythographers offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted, and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists. In terms consonant with Christian purposes, they elucidated the fabulous narratives and underlying themes in the works of Ovid, Virgil, Statius, and other poets of antiquity. In so doing, the Vatican Mythographers provided handbooks that included descriptions of ancient rites and customs, curious etymologies, and, above all, moral allegories. Thus we learn that Bacchus is a naked youth who rides a tiger because drunkenness is never mature, denudes us of possessions, and begets ferocity; or that Ulysses, husband of Penelope, passed by the monstrous Scylla unharmed because a wise man bound to chastity overcomes lust. The extensive collection of myths illustrates how this material was used for moral lessons. To date, the works of the Vatican Mythographers have remained inaccessible to scholars and students without a good working knowledge of Latin. The translation thus fulfills a scholarly void. It is prefaced by an introduction that discusses the purposes of the Vatican Mythographers, the influences on them, and their place in medieval and Renaissance mythography. Of course, it also entertains with a host of stories whose undying appeal captivates, charms, inspires, instructs, and sometimes horrifies us. The book should have wide appeal for a whole range of university courses involving myth.
Download or read book Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry written by Ronnie Ancona and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting power back and forth between male and female. If there is one conclusion that emerges, it is that the dynamics of gender in Latin amatory poetry do not map in any single way onto the cultural and historical norms of Roman society. In fact, as several essays show, there is a dialectical relationship between this poetry and Roman cultural practices. By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh perspectives.
Download or read book The Gorgon s Severed Head written by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae.
Download or read book The Medusa Reader written by Marjorie Garber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.
Download or read book The Gorgon Bride written by Galen Surlak-Ramsey and published by Tiny Fox Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE GODS ARE FUNNY. Except when you piss them off. Then they suck. They really, really suck. (Really). Alexander Weiss discovers this tidbit when he inadvertently insults Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and she casts him away on a forgotten isle filled with statues. Being marooned is bad enough, but the fact that the island is also the home of Euryale, elder sister to Medusa, makes the situation a touch worse. The only thing keeping Alex from being petrified is the fact that Euryale has taken a liking to the blundering mortal. For now. What follows next is a wild, adventurous tale filled with heroes, gods, monsters, love, and war that is nothing short of legendary" -- back cover
Download or read book Olympian Exiles written by Cassie Day and published by Cassie Day. This book was released on 2023-01-14 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the epic world of Prasinos. Gods, heroes, and monsters roam the land. Danger, adventure, and romance await. And every bargain comes with a steep price... Three full-length novels retelling Greek myths from the perspective of mythical monsters. Over 1,100 pages of romantic young-new adult fantasy! Includes the complete trilogy: Siren Daughter, Gorgon Born, and Chimera Child. A journey for immortality. Agathe is a siren, a creature once known for their enthralling songs. But her ancestors’ exile locks her and her family deep beneath the Akri Sea. She resigns herself to an unremarkable life with only her beloved mother for company. Yet when everything she holds dear is stripped away during a bitter winter, she embarks on a deadly quest. One for the most precious gift in all the realms: immortality. A quest for revenge. Chloe is a gorgon, the daughter of legendary Medusa—once known for venomous snake hair and a stone-turning gaze. With her mother murdered and buried, life on an isolated island with two cruel aunts feels anything but legendary. But when the truth of who her father is and what he’s done comes to light, she leaves behind all she knows. Anything to seek revenge against those who did her mother harm: god-king Zeus and his brother Poseidon. A fight for freedom. Melina is a chimera, a fire-breathing creature able to adapt to her environment. But the secrets within her goddess-queen mother’s court render her caged and considered nothing more than a beast to control. When a young blacksmith seals another collar around her neck, a dangerous chain of events unfolds, leading to her exile from the court she called home and the mother she doesn’t know how to live without. A mother who lied about everything—including the details of who Mel is and who actually birthed her.
Download or read book Siren Daughter written by Cassie Day and published by Cassie Day. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save myself, I bargain with the gods. To save my family, I bet my own life. Sirens were once known for irresistible songs. Yet centuries after our ancestor’s exile, we’re like every other creature in the Akri Sea—unremarkable, forgotten, mortal. When famine sweeps through the sea and drags my mother to the realm of the dead, I refuse to be like the rest of my kind. I refuse to die forgotten. To change my fate, I journey to the city of the gods. To gain immortality, I bargain with god-king Zeus in his gilded palace. And with the aid of a deity whose smoldering eyes pull emotions out of me I never thought possible, I might just succeed in the three trials to come. I’ll risk anything for immortality. But when an opportunity presents itself, will I risk everything to save my family? If you like Greek mythology, slow-burn romance, and legendary creatures, you’ll love Siren Daughter, the first book in an enthralling fantasy trilogy.
