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Book Red Mortal

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  • Author : Deidre Knight
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2011-04-05
  • ISBN : 1101513632
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Red Mortal written by Deidre Knight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonidas has long led his fellow immortal warriors in battle with quiet, unyielding strength. But when Daphne, Oracle of Delphi, confesses to having loved him from afar, Leo finds his stoic shell breaking away. Just as their love ignites, Daphne's half-brother Ares strips Leonidas of his immortality. Now, it's just a matter of time before Leonidas is taken from her-unless they can find a way to challenge Ares together.

Book Eros s Encounter

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  • Author : Lucinda Mitchell
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2007-06
  • ISBN : 1425999417
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Eros s Encounter written by Lucinda Mitchell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros's Encounter is the first in a series of books about individual constellations. This book is the mythical story of the constellation Pisces. A small boy, Eros, accidentally wakes a sleeping giant when out playing with his bow and arrows. The dragon, Typhon, seeks his revenge. As the dragon stalks the little boy, Eros's mother does her best to come up with a creative way to protect him. In the end Eros and his mother outwit the dragon, leading Typhon to a watery death. In the process mother and son are saved by 2 fish, who mysteriously appear out of the water to save them. The fish, Pisces, are then placed in the sky as a reminder that doing and being good will be rewarded.

Book Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature

Download or read book Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature written by Alice L. Trupe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary young adult literature is a relatively new genre. This guide provides an overview of the burgeoning field, focusing primarily on fiction. Each of the 32 chapters is devoted to a theme of special significance to young adults, and provides brief critical discussions of several related literary works. Chapters close with lists of fiction for further reading. An appendix groups works according to additional themes, and a selected bibliography cites relevant critical studies.

Book Cynthia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen J. Heyworth
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-11-22
  • ISBN : 0199228701
  • Pages : 665 pages

Download or read book Cynthia written by Stephen J. Heyworth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid new commentary on the Latin poet Propertius, consisting of a commentary on the whole corpus and a prose translation which includes alternative versions of ambiguous phrasing. In its clear exposition of technical problems, Cynthia will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.

Book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Classical Weekly

Download or read book The Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mythology

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  • Author : E.M. Berens
  • Publisher : Wellfleet Press
  • Release : 2015-07-01
  • ISBN : 1627888845
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Mythology written by E.M. Berens and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore classic stories of the great Greek and Roman heroes, gods, and monsters. Who's Who in Classical Mythology is an indispensable guide to all the Greek and Roman mythological characters, from major deities such as Athena and Bacchus, to the lesser-known wood nymphs and centaurs. Also included, of course, are the heroic mortals, figures such as Jason, Aeneas, Helen, Achilles, and Odysseus, all brought to life in a fascinating series of portraits drawn from a wide variety of ancient literary sources. Each entry offers a small window into a timeless mythological world, one filled with epic battles, bizarre metamorphoses, and all sorts of hideous and fantastic monsters. The perfect book for casual browsers and folklore enthusiasts alike, Who's Who in Classical Mythology offers a rich and readable guide to some of the greatest stories ever told.

Book Classical Bronzes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol C. Mattusch
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780801431821
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Classical Bronzes written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol C. Mattusch discusses the dating of bronzes based on criteria of technique and style, and considers technical innovations in the art of portraiture. Most controversially, she offers evidence that Greek artists cast bronzes in series based on a single model.

Book Plotting with Eros

Download or read book Plotting with Eros written by Ingela Nilsson and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims at providing both students and scholars with a series of discussions of the long tradition of reading and writing the erotic, seen from a number of different perspectives.

Book The English Emblem Tradition

Download or read book The English Emblem Tradition written by Alan R. Young and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Index Emblematicus deals with three early seventeenth-century works: Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, by William Camden; The Mirrour of Maiestie, by H.G.; and Otto van Veen's Amorum Emblemata. Camden's Remaines is noteworthy for using imprese in language as pictorial image; for mixing imprese with cognizance; and for considering impresa itself as the identity of the individual rather than as a general principle. H.G.'s Mirrour is remarkable in that every one of its emblems consists of a personal heraldic coat of arms of an identified statesman twinned with a pictorial engraving, motto, and epigram on an opposite page. Van Veen's Emblemata enters literary history as a volume of emblem pictures consecrated to secular love experience, encapsulating some of the conventions of the sonnet sequences and having a strong influence on religious love literature. Each book is reproduced with critical and bibliographic introductions, translation of the poems and mottos, descriptions of the emblems, and indices to the visual and verbal components of the works.

Book In the Company of Shakespeare

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  • Author : Thomas Moisan
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780838639023
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book In the Company of Shakespeare written by Thomas Moisan and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology of critical essays written about English literature during the Renaissance (or the 'early-modern' period). It focuses on Shakespeare's poetry and plays, including the 'Sonnets', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', 'The Rape of Lucrece', 'King Lear', 'Othello', 'Measure for Measure', and 'Timon of Athens'. Also examined are the publication of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, William Cartwright's play 'The Royal Slave', and James Halliwell-Phillips, one of the central figures in the Shakespearean textual tradition.

Book Pangs of Love and Longing

Download or read book Pangs of Love and Longing written by Anders Cullhed and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex relationship between psychic structures, social norms, and aesthetic representations is a challenge for every analysis of the historical manifestations of human desire. Pangs of Love and Longing: Configurations of Desire in Premodern Literature sets out to provide a deeper understanding of this relation by an assessment of linguistic and artistic configurations of desire in European literature from Antiquity to the Early Modern period. The aim is to explore historic continuities and ruptures in attitudes towards sexuality, pleasures and bodies, as these are represented in a variety of cultural forms, in order to demonstrate the plurality of premodern desire – and, ultimately, to offer fresh perspectives on our present reality. The seventeen scholars participating in the anthology bring together theories and assessments from different areas of the Humanities – German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, and Comparative Literature, History of Ideas and of Art, Theology, Philosophy and Gender Studies. They are all engaged in cross-disciplinary activities at universities in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and they all participate in the Scandinavian network “Configurations of Desire in Premodern Literature” initiated in 2010.

Book Numismata Graeca

Download or read book Numismata Graeca written by Leo Anson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth and Philosophy in Plato s Phaedrus

Download or read book Myth and Philosophy in Plato s Phaedrus written by Daniel S. Werner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.

Book A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography  Anthology  and Geography Abriged from the Larger Dictionary by William Smith

Download or read book A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography Anthology and Geography Abriged from the Larger Dictionary by William Smith written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Morgantina Studies  Volume VI

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shelley C. Stone
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-25
  • ISBN : 1400845165
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Morgantina Studies Volume VI written by Shelley C. Stone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavation of the ancient city of Morgantina in southeastern Sicily since 1955 has recovered an extraordinary quantity and variety of pottery, both locally made and imported. This volume presents the fine-ware pottery dating between the second half of the fourth century BCE, when Morgantina was a thriving inland center closely tied to the Hellenistic east through Syracuse, and the first half of the first century CE, when Morgantina had been reduced to a dwindling Roman provincial town that would soon be abandoned. Bearing gloss and often paint or relief, these fine ceramics were mostly tableware, and together they provide a well-defined picture of the evolving material culture of an important urban site over several centuries. And since virtually all these vessels come from dated deposits, this volume provides wide-ranging contributions to the chronology of Hellenistic and early Roman pottery. An introductory chapter sketches out a comprehensive history of the city, discusses the many well-dated archaeological deposits that contained the excavated pottery, and defines the major fabrics of the ceramics found at the site. The bulk of the volume consists of a scholarly presentation of more than 1,500 pottery vessels, analyzing their shapes, fabrics, chronology, decoration, and techniques of fabrication. This rich ceramic material includes significant bodies of Republican black-gloss and red-gloss vases, Sicilian polychrome ware, and Eastern Sigillata A, as well as early Italian terra sigillata, with numerous examples imported from Arezzo and other Italian centers, along with regional versions from Campania and elsewhere on Sicily. The relief ware includes important groups of third-century BCE medallion cups and hemispherical moldmade cups of the second and first centuries BCE. Morgantina was also an active center of pottery production, and the debris from several workshops has been recovered, enabling Shelley Stone to reconstruct the working techniques and materials of the local craftsmen, the range of ceramics they produced, and how their products were influenced by pottery imported to the site from elsewhere on Sicily, the Italian mainland, and even more distant centers. The volume also presents new information about the sources of the clay used by the Morgantina potters, as revealed by X-ray fluorescence analysis of selected vases.

Book Schooling Desire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ursula A. Kelly
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 1135238197
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Schooling Desire written by Ursula A. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula A. Kelly draws on radical theories of literacy, culture, identity and pedagogy to frame the culture of pedagogy as it relates to human desire. Examples from (auto)biography, classroom practices, and popular media provide the means by which the author highlights some of the pedagogical dilemmas facing literacy practices which often work to silence the cultural politics of identity and desire.