Download or read book Orestes written by Voltaire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."

Download or read book Draconomicon written by Andy Collins and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art-filled sourcebook for all things draconic in the Dungeons & Dragons world, this title includes information on playing dragons and dragon-like creatures, how to run a dragon in a fight, and how to both fight dragons and work with them as allies. The book itself is designed in a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and constructed of premium materials. (Games/Gamebooks/Crosswords)

Download or read book Twentieth Century Mythologies written by Daniel Dubuisson and published by Acumen Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths have intrigued scholars throughout history. 'Twentieth Century Mythologies' traces the study of myth over the last century, presenting the key theories of mythology and critiquing traditional definitions of myth. The volume presents the work of influential scholars in mythology: the noted Indo-Europeanist Georges Dumezil, the structuralist anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, and the historian of religions Mircea Eliade. 'Twentieth Century Mythologies' is an indispensable resource for scholars of religion and myth and for all those interested in the history of ideas.

Download or read book An Instinct for Dragons written by David E. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book The Fire Dragon The Dragon Mage Book 3 written by Katharine Kerr and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book eleven of the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years.

Download or read book DragonKnight written by Donita K. Paul and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in Dragonspell and DragonQuest, in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth. Trapped in an evil spell… can the knights of Paladin be rescued? Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, N’Rae, who are on a mission to rescue the woman’s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. When Bardon learns that more of Paladin’s knights are imprisoned within the chamber, he suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kale’ s missing father. The band travels north, uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber, they discover a dozen knights. But the knights cannot be awakened, and the journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need, and overcome even graver obstacles, to rescue the knights?

Download or read book Florentine Sculptors of the Renaissance written by Wilhelm von Bode and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance written by Wilhelm von Bode and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection written by Patricia Wengraf and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Hills' taste centers on the Florentine bronze, but their interests range to superb examples from northern Italy and Rome, as well as those from France and northern Europe. Giambologna, the great Flemish sculptor practicing in Florence in the late sixteenth century, is revered for the subtlety of his compositions and for his technical ability. He is well represented in the Hill collection through works from his own hand and those cast after his models by his assistant - and master in his own right - Antonio Susini."--"Director's foreword", p 8.

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Download or read book Italian Renaissance sculpture written by Gallerie Baratti and published by Edizioni Polistampa. This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the catalog of the exhibition held in Florence on the occasion of the Biennale International Fair of Antiquariato (2013, 28 th edition). It contains 18 masterpieces of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italian sculpture belonging to Baratti Galleries' collections (Milan). The works are different for materials (marble, stone, terracotta, wood, bronze) and area of origin, including sculptures by Donatello, Vincenzo Danti, Andrea Riccio and Filarete. "For those who perceive the evolution of artistic taste," as Gianluca Gentilini explains in the introductory text, "and are used to historical and artistic studies, as well as to exhibitions deriving from them, it is by now obvious that the critical engagement of new generations is especially characterized by a passionate, fruitful rediscovery of sculpture, with very significant outcomes in the knowledge, protection and enhancement of our heritage, that influence the dynamics of public and private international collectors".