Download or read book THE HUNTRESS OF TROY written by WILLIAM BUCCANNAN and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have heard the stories of Helen of Troy. The stories of the woman who launched a thousand ships. Some tell the story that she was an innocent victim caught between two kings who wanted to possess her. Those stories are lies. I will tell you the true story of Helen of Troy. My name is Helena my story begins when my mother had taken ill and was lying on her death bed. Some of the elders and Physicians in my father’s court thought it may have been the pox that killed my mother, but I knew better. I knew it was witch craft that had taken my mother from me. My father would disappear for days to the temple of Athena to pray for my mother’s good health. My mother’s health continued to worsen as she became bed ridden and rail thin in a matter of months. The castle was overcast with despair; everyone knew that my mother was dying. Everyone except me, I still had hope that whatever witchcraft that had befallen my mother would soon be lifted.
Download or read book The Huntress written by J. Risk and published by FRP. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if your soulmate was born in a different realm? The Alterealm Series is a paranormal romance in a fantasy, otherworld setting with plenty of action and fate to decide their destinies. What would you do if you woke up in another realm where the residents are beings from fictional tales? Where all those things that go bump in the night are real, and other realities do exist!! Damariss Maxx just woke up in a world where all those things that go bump in the night are real. An alternate realm where the residents are beings she thought only existed in fiction. Will she find the way to keep life normal and simple for the unknowing without losing her own sanity? All she has to do now is find a way to protect people in her world from the nightmares that have bled over from another realm, fulfill a prophecy that says she's their Huntress Queen, or doom both worlds to a bleak and violent existence.
Download or read book A Song of War written by Kate Quinn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SONG OF WAR Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy's gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens, heroes and cowards, seers and kings . . . and these are their stories. A young princess and an embittered prince join forces to prevent a fatal elopement. A tormented seeress challenges the gods themselves to save her city from the impending disaster. A tragedy-haunted king battles private demons and envious rivals as the siege grinds on. A doomed hero launches a desperate plan to bring the war to a close. A grizzled archer and a desperate Amazon risk their lives to avenge their dead. A trickster conceives the greatest trick of all. A goddess' son battles to save the spirit of Troy even as the walls are breached in fire and blood. Seven authors bring to life the epic tale of the Trojan War: its heroes, its villains, its survivors, its dead. Who will lie forgotten in the embers, and who will rise to shape the bloody dawn of a new age?
Download or read book Shadows of Otherside written by Whitney Hill and published by Benu Media. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete collection of the first 5 books in the Shadows of Otherside urban fantasy series Air elemental Arden Finch pushes against the status quo to unravel conspiracies and carve out a place for herself in the supernatural community of North Carolina. As she confronts the existing power structures and uncovers secrets, she must also solve the greatest mystery of all: herself. The line between friend and enemy is not always clear, but it’s one she’ll have to walk in order to claim her forbidden magic and grow into the power she’s meant to be. This five-book box set collection contains: * Elemental * Eldritch Sparks * Ethereal Secrets * Ebon Rebellion * Eternal Huntress Plus a bonus first chapter of the upcoming book 6, Tempered Illusions. Don't miss this series if you like a coming-of-age growth arc, enemies to lovers and lovers to enemies, spicy romance, and a whole host of supernatural beings. Content warnings The books in the Shadows of Otherside universe contain the following: swearing, consensual sex, physical violence, blood/gore, on-page death, slurs (not toward any real racial or ethnic group/identity), alcohol use, and threats of sexual violence. Elemental includes an on-page drowning scene.
Download or read book Troy written by Stephen Fry and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War. Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story of the epic battle retold by Fry with drama, humor, and vivid emotion. Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Helen, their lovers, and their mortal enemies all burn bright in Fry's compelling prose. Illustrated throughout with classical art inspired by the myths, this gorgeous volume invites you to explore a captivating world with a brilliant storyteller as your guide. • BELOVED AUTHOR: Stephen Fry is an icon whose signature wit and mellifluous style makes this retelling utterly unique. Fans will love hearing his interpretation, whether they are familiar with the original Greek myths or not. • TIMELESS STORIES: For fans of Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, Madeline Miller's Circe or Song of Achilles, or Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, this is the perfect next great read. These ancient tales never get old. • STUNNING SERIES CONCLUSION: Mythos and Heroes, the first two installments in the trilogy, were international bestsellers. Now fans can read the thrilling third book. • GORGEOUS GIFT: With a vibrant contemporary design, full-color artwork throughout, and shimmering metallic highlights on the jacket, this book makes a superb present.
Download or read book The Huntress and the Sphinx written by Ru Emerson and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Xena and Gabrielle are asked to rescue a group of kidnapped children, the legendary huntress Atalanta, is the first to volunteer. After all, she believes herself to be the only one with the strength to succeed. But when they find the kidnapper, Xena realizes that no one is strong enough to defeat it. For who can challenge the deadly riddles of the legendary sphinx?
Download or read book Constructing Communities in Vergil s Aeneid written by Tedd A. Wimperis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology presents a new examination of memory, ethnic identity, and politics within the fictional world of this Roman epic, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s characters, settings, and narrative and the political context of the early Roman Empire. This book investigates how the Aeneid’s fictive ethnic communities—the Trojans, Carthaginians, Latins, and Arcadians who populate its poetic world—are shown to have identities, myths, and cultural memories of their own. And much like their real-life Roman counterparts, they engage in the politics of the past in such contexts as royal iconography, diplomacy, public displays, and incitements to war. Where previous studies of identity and memory in the Aeneid have focused on the poem’s constructions of Roman identity, Constructing Communities turns the spotlight onto the characters themselves to show how the world inside the poem is replicating, as if in miniature, real forms of contemporary political and cultural discourse, reflecting an historical milieu where appeals to Roman identity were vigorously asserted in political rhetoric. The book applies this evidence to a broad literary analysis of the Aeneid, as well as a reevaluation of its engagement with Roman imperial ideology in the Age of Augustus.
Download or read book Nobody s Mother written by Sandra L. Glahn and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 mean that women are slated primarily for rearing children? Sandra Glahn thinks that we have misunderstood Paul and the context to which he wrote. Combining spiritual autobiography with new research on the Greek goddess Artemis, Glahn lays a biblical foundation for God's view of women.
Download or read book The Aeneid written by Virgil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods. Ultimately, he reaches the promised land of Italy where, after bloody battles and with high hopes, he founds what will become the Roman empire. An unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, and fate, the Aeneid redefines passion, nobility, and courage for our times. Robert Fagles, whose acclaimed translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were welcomed as major publishing events, brings the Aeneid to a new generation of readers, retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original Latin as well as its powerful blend of poetry and myth. Featuring an illuminating introduction to Virgil’s world by esteemed scholar Bernard Knox, this volume lends a vibrant new voice to one of the seminal literary achievements of the ancient world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book The Affair of the Veiled Murderess written by Jeanne Winston Adler and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy, New York, 1853. Two Irish immigrants—a man and a woman—die shortly after drinking beer poured by a neighbor. Was it poisoned? And if so, was their slayer the beautiful mistress of an important Democratic politician? Many Trojans soon answer yes to both questions, but others question the guilt of the glamorous accused. Rumored to be the once-respectable Miss Charlotte Wood, a former student at Emma Willard's elite Troy Female Seminary and the runaway wife of a British lord, her identity remains in doubt, and the air of mystery is only heightened by her decision to remain hidden behind a veil during her trial, which earns her the nickname "The Veiled Murderess." As the affair widens to include the antebellum social and political worlds of Troy and Albany, the blossoming scandal threatens important people on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing on newspapers, court documents, and other records of the time, Jeanne Winston Adler attempts to come to an understanding of the truth behind the strange affair of the veiled murderess. In the process, she addresses a number of topics important to our understanding of nineteenth-century life in New York State, including the changing roles of women, the marginal position of the Irish, and the contentious political firmament of the time.
Download or read book Greek Roman Mythology Grades 6 12 written by Edgar and published by Mark Twain Media. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell tales to students in grades 5 and up using Greek and Roman Mythology! This 128-page book includes reproducible activities that develop higher-level thinking skills through mythological stories, maps, charts, crossword puzzles, quizzes, and worksheets. The book covers topics such as mythology, geography, history, and creative writing. Students love learning about these fascinating tales!
Download or read book Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis Rhesus Hecuba The daughters of Troy Helen written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deeper into the Shadows written by Whitney Hill and published by Benu Media. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture deeper into the world of Otherside. While the main Shadows of Otherside series follows the story of Arden Finch, there is so much more going on behind the scenes and in other characters’ heads. Find out how alliances formed, the hidden agendas and secret pains of other characters, and what happens between books. Deeper Into the Shadows is a novel-length collection of bonus chapters from the points of view of Maria, Ninlil (Arden’s mother), Val, Troy, Allegra, Arden, and Darius. Take a walk into the shadows with them. This second edition contains a total of 32 chapters set in the Shadows of Otherside universe by Whitney Hill, including both previously shared and all-new content gathered together for the first time. In addition to new chapters, minor edits have been made from the first edition to improve quality and consistency with the main story. Please note that while some chapters can stand alone, others take place during events in the main series and may spoil unread books. Scenes taking place during books have been noted, with a date and place for each chapter to help avoid spoilers and support any readers who want to read bonus content alongside the main series for the full picture of events. Content warnings: This book contains references to death in childbirth, strong physical violence and gore, on-page death, suicidal ideation, nightmares about and memories of torture, discussions of mental health crises, family estrangement, swearing, slurs (not toward any real racial or ethnic group/identity), alcohol use, knife violence, threat of sexual violence, mention of past abuse by a guardian, blood-drinking, and consensual on-page sex scenes.
Download or read book Fate and the Hero in Virgil s Aeneid written by Graham Zanker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way that Jupiter and Aeneas can assent to the world fate in which they have discovered they must play a part, or Juno and Dido can withhold their assent to it. Indeed, Virgil even offers the model to no-one less than Augustus: the emperor is invited to give his assent to ruling what was believed to be his 'world-wide' empire justly. The book is accessible to both students and professional scholars of the Aeneid, with all Greek and Latin translated into idiomatic English.
Download or read book The Siege and Fall of Troy written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the story of the Trojan War based upon accounts by Homer and other Greek and Latin authors.
Download or read book Reading Virgil written by Virgil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid.
Download or read book A Popular History of Greece written by D. Rose and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
