Download or read book The Arms of Hercules written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hercules tells the story of his twelve works of wonder against the backdrop of the ongoing deadly battle between the gods and the giants.
Download or read book The Choice Of Hercules written by A.C. Grayling and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A.C. Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book. He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today's moral challenges. Above all, he explores the idea that certain demands and certain pleasures are necessary, not just because of their intrinsic merits but because of what they do for each other. With exceptional clarity and unrivalled prose, Grayling addresses the everyday ethical choices which confront us all.
Download or read book The Modern Hercules written by Alastair J.L. Blanshard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.
Download or read book Seneca Hercules written by A. J. Boyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value. Written probably at the intersection of the principates of Claudius and Nero, it addresses central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. Among its concerns are violence and madness; imperatives of family and self; Rome, identity and place; the nature of virtue; the longing for immortality; the theatre of rage; and the empire of death. The play is dramatically innovative, spectacular, and arresting: from its fiery, monumental god-prologue (the only one in Senecan tragedy), through meditative soliloquies, impassioned speeches, trenchant dialogue, a failed wooing scene with an impressive after-life in Tudor drama, a stunning entrance for Hercules and his captured hellhound, Theseus' ecphrastic narrative of the hero's infernal 'labour', to a familicidal madness scene and an emotionally turbulent, non-violent finale, in which the instinct for self-punitive suicide is thwarted by the claims of kinship and the acceptance of intolerable suffering. The whole is bound together by some of Seneca's most affective choral lyrics, as intellectually engaging as they are emotionally potent. Hercules is A. J. Boyle's sixth, full-scale edition for OUP of a play by or attributed to Seneca. It offers a comprehensive introduction, newly edited Latin text, English verse translation designed for both performance and academic study, and a detailed exegetic, analytic, and interpretative commentary. The aim has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. As such, its substantial influence on European drama from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries is given emphasis throughout; this and the accessibility of the commentary to Latinless readers make the edition particularly useful to scholars and students not only of classics, but also of comparative literature and drama, and to anyone interested in the cultural dynamics of literary reception and the interplay between theatre and history.
Download or read book Seneca Hercules written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value. Written probably at the intersection of the principates of Claudius and Nero, it addresses central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. Among its concerns are violence and madness; imperatives of family and self; Rome, identity and place; the nature of virtue; the longing for immortality; the theatre of rage; and the empire of death. The play is dramatically innovative, spectacular, and arresting: from its fiery, monumental god-prologue (the only one in Senecan tragedy), through meditative soliloquies, impassioned speeches, trenchant dialogue, a failed wooing scene with an impressive after-life in Tudor drama, a stunning entrance for Hercules and his captured hellhound, Theseus' ecphrastic narrative of the hero's infernal 'labour', to a familicidal madness scene and an emotionally turbulent, non-violent finale, in which the instinct for self-punitive suicide is thwarted by the claims of kinship and the acceptance of intolerable suffering. The whole is bound together by some of Seneca's most affective choral lyrics, as intellectually engaging as they are emotionally potent. Hercules is A. J. Boyle's sixth, full-scale edition for OUP of a play by or attributed to Seneca. It offers a comprehensive introduction, newly edited Latin text, English verse translation designed for both performance and academic study, and a detailed exegetic, analytic, and interpretative commentary. The aim has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. As such, its substantial influence on European drama from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries is given emphasis throughout; this and the accessibility of the commentary to Latinless readers make the edition particularly useful to scholars and students not only of classics, but also of comparative literature and drama, and to anyone interested in the cultural dynamics of literary reception and the interplay between theatre and history.
Download or read book Understanding the Soul s Journey Through the Labours of Hercules written by Astra Ferro and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is so much knowledge of the deeper wisdom out there waiting for us to explore and discover. Don’t be afraid to allow your mind and heart to be open to newer ways of thinking. This guide considers the astrological journey of the Soul symbolized by the story of the labours of Hercules. Both mythological and symbolical in nature, this story reveals the path of the Soul; it is the story of Humanity. This is our story, our path, our experiences, our lessons, our challenges and trials, and our victories. We will be victorious, no matter how long or how many lifetimes we need to garner experience. This story represents the experiences on the path of the Soul as it travels through the signs of the Zodiac. Written from author Astra Ferro’s inner guidance, insights, and studies of esotericism over many years, it aims to help fellow travellers on the path of the Soul to see beyond the written words and discover how each experience through the signs of the Zodiac can bring more understanding about themselves and their Souls’ purposes. Uplifting and intriguing, this spiritual guide examines the journey of the Soul as it incarnates and travels through the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
Download or read book The Works of Virgil Literally Translated Into English Prose written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Virgil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Vergil Literally Transl Into English Prosa with Notes by Davicson A New Ed by Theodore Alois Buckley written by Publius Vergilius Maro and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology written by Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscript notes and newspaper clippings inserted.
Download or read book Proceedings written by Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscript notes and newspaper clippings inserted.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History written by Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sculpture and the Nordic Region written by Elettra Carbone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of sculpture within the Nordic region are under-studied and the region?s influence upon and translation of influences from elsewhere in Europe remain insufficiently traced. This volume brings to light individual histories of sculptural mobility from the early modern period onwards. Examining the movement of sculptures, sculptors, practices, skills, styles and motifs across borders, through studios and public architectures, within popular and print culture and via texts, the essays collected here consider the extent to which the sculptural artwork is changed by its physical movement and its transfigurations in other media. How does the meaning and form of these objects performatively respond to the pressure of their relocations and rematerialisations? Conversely, how do sculptures impact their new contexts of display? The contributing authors engage with a wide variety of objects and media in their essays. Each focuses on the contextualisation of sculpture in an original and timely way, exploring how mobility acts as a filter offering new perspectives on iconography, memorialisation, collecting, iconoclasm and exhibiting. From the stave churches of early Norway to the decoration of International Style monoliths of the twentieth century, from Italian quarries to Baroque palaces, from fountains to figurines, from text to performance, these wide-ranging and fascinating case studies contribute to the rich history of the Nordic region?s sculptural production.
Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by James Prinsep and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
