Download or read book Ransoming Hector written by Shervin Dean and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain damage. Cure it, and you cure violent crime. Martha Tisseau, psychologist extraordinairy, believes she’s found the panacea for healing society’s most intractable criminals. But crime pays—the jailers, that is. In this case, the cure may turn out to be more deadly than the disease…

Download or read book Ransom written by David Malouf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.

Download or read book The Iliad of Homer written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Redesigning Achilles written by Sophia Papaioannou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical note: Sophia Papaioannou, The National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Download or read book The Story of the Iliad written by Alfred John Church and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anger of Achilles written by Leonard Charles Muellner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Muellner's goal is to restore the Greek word for the anger of Achilles, menis, to its social, mythical, and poetic contexts. His point of departure is the anthropology of emotions. He believes that notions of anger vary between cultures and that the particular meaning of a word such as menis needs to emerge from a close study of Greek epic. Menis means more than an individual's emotional response. On the basis of the epic exemplifications of the word, Muellner defines the term as a cosmic sanction against behavior that violates the most basic rules of human society. Virtually absent from the Odyssey, the term menis appears in the Iliad in conjunction with the enforcement of social rules, especially the rules of reciprocal exchange. To understand the way menis functions, Muellner invokes the concept of tabu developed by Mary Douglas, stressing both the power and the danger that accrue to a person who violates such rules. Transgressive behavior has both a creative and a destructive aspect. Muellner draws on the method of mythical analysis developed by Pierre-Yves Jacopin. He applies the restructured definition of menis to the anger of Achilles in the narrative of the Iliad, tracing the moral issues that motivate cosmic anger and, finally, exploring the transformation of menis into the social term that is explicitly named as its opposite: philotes, or friendship.

Download or read book Renaissance Suppliants written by Leah Whittington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance. It argues that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, taking us to the heart of fundamental questions of politics and religion, ethics and identity, sexuality and family. As a perennial mode of asymmetrical communication in moments of helplessness and extreme need, supplication speaks to ways that people live together despite grave inequalities. It is a strategy that societies use to regulate and perpetuate themselves, to negotiate conflict, and to manage situations in which relationships threaten to unravel. All the writers discussed here—Vergil, Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Milton—find supplication indispensable for thinking about problems of antagonism, difference, and hierarchy, bringing the aesthetic resources of supplicatory interactions to bear on their unique literary and cultural circumstances. The opening chapters establish a conceptual framework for thinking about supplication as facilitating transitions between states of feeling and positions of relative status, beginning with Homer and classical literature. Vergil's Aeneid is paradigmatic instance in which literary and social structures of the ancient past are transformed to suit the needs of the present, and supplication becomes a figure for the act of cultural translation. Subsequent chapters take up different aspects of Renaissance supplicatory discourse, showing how postures of humiliation and abjection are appropriated and transformed in erotic poetry, drama, and epic. The book ends with Milton who invests gestures of self-abasement with unexpected dignity.

Download or read book The Iliad of Homer Litterally Translated Whit Explanatory Notes by Theodore Alois Buckley written by Homerus and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Iliad of Homer written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Iliad tr with notes by T A Buckley written by Homerus and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Iliad of Homer Literally Translated with Explanatory Notes By Theodore Alois Buckley written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Homer Anthology written by Homer and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 1930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Homer: The Iliad The Odyssey Odysseus Homer and Classical Philology The Homeric Hymns Hesiod, The Hymns, and Homerica

Download or read book The Iliad written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Odyssey of Homer written by Homerus and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Odyssey of Homer Books VII to XII written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Complete Works of Homer The Iliad The Odyssey The Homeric Hymns written by Homer and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 7268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longevity of Greek ideas, images, and systems of thought bears witness to the incomparable originality of ancient Greek scientific and artistic achievements and the genius of Hellenist society. It is on the foundation of Hellenist achievements that many of our modern advancements have developed. Greek culture also significantly impacted the development of literature and education, beginning with the Romans and expanding to Europe and the West. The best-known literary masterpiece of the Archaic Greek period is the so-called Homeric epics – The Illiad and The Odyssey – and The Homeric Hymns.

Download or read book The Iliad and the Odyssey written by Alfred J. Church and published by SSEL. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ONCE upon a time there was a certain King of Sparta who had a most beautiful daughter, Helen by name. There was not a prince in Greece but wished to marry her. The King said to them: "Now you must all swear that you will be good friends with the man whom my daughter shall choose for her husband, and that if any one is wicked enough to steal her away from him, you will help him get her back." And this they did."Alfred J. Church dedicated his life to popularize the classics for young people. His translation of Homers classic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, is done beautifully in his book while using the same meaning, intonation, and rhythm as when Homer originally composed the poems. The book is fully illustrated (in black and white) by John Flaxman.