Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Octavio Paz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

Download or read book With Lyre and Bow written by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far-Shooter. Foreseer. Wolf. Raven. Rat. Swan. Bringer of Health and Plague. Master of Song and Poetry. Lord of Truth and Enlightenment. Olympian God of prophecy and healing, archery and light and music, Apollo was honored throughout the ancient Mediterranean and across the Roman Empire. A paradoxical God, he is associated with both wisdom and virility, with compassion and cruelty, with fatherhood and youth. Twin to the virginal Artemis, he took many mortal lovers, male and female, and sired numerous children - at least one of whom, the healer Asklepios, ascended to godhood himself. Despite the deliberate destruction of His temples, Apollo was never forgotten. Renaissance artists and philosophers found in Him a worthy and willing patron, and in the centuries since his devotees have only grown in number. Among them are the contributors to this anthology, whose poems, essays, artwork, rites, and short fiction celebrate the God in all his wondrous complexity. And so we sing, as they did in ancient days: hail to you, Son of Thunder and Lightning. Io Paean!

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Seth Benardete and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings.

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Roma Alvah King and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Roma Alvah King and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bow the Lyre the Art of Robert Browning written by Roma a (Roma Alvah) 1914- King and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Roma A. King and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old Greek Stories written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bow the Lyre written by Roma Alvah King and published by Ann Arbor, U. of Michigan P. This book was released on 1957 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Between the Yogi and the Commissar written by Enrico Mario Santí and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plato s Pigs and Other Ruminations written by M. D. Usher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience – from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule – Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Octavio Paz and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Muse Drudge written by Harryette Romell Mullen and published by Singing Horse Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Politics of Olympos written by Michael Brumbaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Politics of Olympos explores the dynamics of praise, power, and persuasion in Kallimachos' hymns, detailing how they simultaneously substantiate and interrogate the radically new phenomenon of Hellenistic kingship taking shape during Kallimachos' lifetime. Long before the Ptolemies invested vast treasure in establishing Alexandria as the center of Hellenic culture and learning, tyrants such as Peisistratos and Hieron recognized the value of poetry in advancing their political agendas. Plato, too, saw the vast power inherent in poetry, and famously advocated either censoring it (Republic) or harnessing it (Laws) for the good of the political community. As Xenophon notes in his Hieron and Pindar demonstrates in his politically charged epinikian hymns, wielding poetry's power entails a complex negotiation between the poet, the audience, and political leaders. Kallimachos' poetic medium for engaging in this dynamic, the hymn, had for centuries served as an unparalleled vehicle for negotiating with the super-powerful. The New Politics of Olympos offers the first in-depth analysis of Kallimachos' only fully extant poetry book, the Hymns, by examining its contemporary political setting, engagement with a tradition of political thought stretching back to Homer, and portrayal of the poet as an image-maker for the king. In addition to investigating the political dynamics in the individual hymns, this book details how the poet's six hymns, once juxtaposed within a single bookroll, constitute a macro-narrative on the prerogatives of Ptolemaic kingship. Throughout the collection Kallimachos refigures the infamously factious divine family as a paradigm of stability and good governance in concert with the self-fashioning of the Ptolemaic dynasty. At the same time, the poet defines the characteristics and behaviors worthy of praise, effectively shaping contemporary political ethics. Thus, for a Ptolemaic reader, this poetry book may have served as an education in and inducement to good kingship.

Download or read book The Ballad of the White Horse written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun under the auspices of God working through the agency of the Virgin Mary. In addition to being a narration of Alfred's military and political accomplishments, it is also considered a Catholic allegory. Chesterton incorporates a significant amount of philosophy into the basic structure of the story. Aeterna Press

Download or read book Paradise Lost Book 3 written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Music of the Sumerians written by Francis W. Galpin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and carefully researched 1937 account of the music of the Sumerians and their immediate predecessors, the Babylonians and Assyrians. On its publication, this book was one of the few studies to concentrate on the music of the ancient civilisations of modern-day Iraq, and is still valued today.