Download or read book Bacchus and Civic Order written by B. Ann Tlusty and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German taverns where there was lots of beer-drinking and brawling have a long history, we learn, in Tlusty's account of the social and cultural functions of tavern life in Augsburg in the 16th-18th centuries. Though the language of a social theorist occasionally intrudes'a deadly duel is emasculated by its definition in terms of "conformance to social norms" and "ritualized forms of violence"?Tlusty's depth of knowledge about the Augsburg taverns makes this a fascinating read on early modern life. The author teaches history at Bucknell U. in Maine. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book The Story of Bacchus written by Andrew Dalby and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first in a series of 'biographies' of famous gods and goddesses from The British Museum is ideal reading for all who enjoy popular biography and travel writing and tells the story of the god Bacchus, also known as Dionysus. It begins on the banks of the River Asopos at Thebes, where Zeus, all-seeing king of the gods, caught sight of the beautiful mortal Semele. The baby Bacchus was the result of their brief affair, delivered, it is said, from a womb fashioned in his father's thigh and with tiny horns protruding from his head. Thus a strange beginning was to lead to even stranger tales, passed down through generations of dramatists, poets, story-tellers and historians to become today mere myths from a long-ago world. Pieced together here, they tell of Bacchus's youth spent on Mount Nysa among the nymphs and Satyrs; of his relentless pursuit by the anger of the goddess Hera; of his victory over India while still a mortal; and of his many love affairs, most famously with Ariadne. But Bacchus is best remembered for his gift to humanity of wine. With it he brought pleasure, but also savagery and death. With many intriguing episodes drawn from an astonishing range of sources - including obscure and fragmentary records detailing the songs chanted by initiates at secret rites - this biography brings the strangely powerful wine-god to life as never before.
Download or read book Bacchus Me written by Jay McInerney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With acerbic wit, irreverent tone, and bountiful hilarious anecdotes, Jay McInerney writes the first wine book that makes sense to all those dazed by the prevailing, dull technical wine writing. McInerney generously reveals all he's learned on his worldwide journey to understand wine in chapters on reds, whites, dessert wines, champagne, aperitifs, and more. McInerney holds forth in forty-nine essays - with agile humor; an astonishing amount of hard fact, and an ample dose of personal taste - on: how to make your way around a German wine label; what to drink with Thanksgiving turkey; the truth about Zinfandels; why Burgundy is so hard to predict; Napa Valley's finest winemakers; the pleasure of flinty Chablis, the deep satisfaction of port, the glorious potential of Oregon's Pinot Noir; the respectability of RosT; and the most colorful characters in the business. It is actually possible for a reader of Bacchus & Me to take what is learned to the bank, and immediately thereafter to wine shop or restaurant to indulge in the wine of his or her fantasy with the confidence of a sommelier. Bacchus & Me is for everyone interested in learning more about the wines of the world. For both those of broad means and of modest purse, there is intense vicarious pleasure to be found in McInerney's vinous adventures.
Download or read book Bacchus written by Andrew Dalby and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the life story of the wine god Bacchus-seducer, magician, and merrymaker-as never told before. Tales of his bizarre birth from a womb fashioned in his father Zeus's thigh led to even stranger stories, passed down through generations of dramatists, poets, storytellers, and historians. Bacchus is best remembered, however, for his gift of wine to humanity. With it he brought not only pleasure but also savagery and death. Pentheus, for example, was torn apart at the hands of his own mother and her fellow Maenads in the midst of a Bacchic frenzy. In this highly enjoyable biography, Andrew Dalby weaves together these and other intriguing episodes from Bacchus's life-from his youth spent on Mount Nysa among nymphs and satyrs to his relentless pursuit by the goddess Hera to Bacchus's many amorous exploits-bringing the wild and powerful wine god to life.
Download or read book Bacchus 2 written by Eddie Campbell and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME TWO contains Book 3: Doing the Islands with Bacchus and Book 4: One Man Show, with new notes from the author.
Download or read book Bacchus 3 written by Eddie Campbell and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME THREE contains Book 5: Earth, Water, Air & Fire and Book 6: 1001 Nights Of Bacchus, with new notes from the author.
Download or read book Bacchus 5 written by Eddie Campbell and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME FIVE contains Book 9: King Bacchus and Book 10: Banged Up, with new notes from the author.
Download or read book Bacchus S 100 Favorite Wines written by Robert J. Tata Ph.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes wines and wineries in California, Europe, and South America that Professor Tata has enjoyed over the years. Many topics about wine appreciation are also discussed, such as matching wine and food, how wines are made, wine etiquette, fad wines, and the worlds greatest wines. This is a good guide for wine novices and the general public.
Download or read book Inspiration Bacchus and the Cultural History of a Creation Myth written by John F. Moffitt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online offers in-depth articles on issues such as Human Rights, UN organs and Commissions as well as questions of international law in connection with the United Nations. The core of authors proves to be a well balanced mix between young scholars and professors from all over Europe.
Download or read book Bacchus 4 written by Eddie Campbell and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME FOUR contains Book 7: Hermes vs. The Eyeball Kid and Book 8: The Picture of Doreen Grey, with new notes from the author.
Download or read book Bacchus 1 written by Eddie Campbell and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME ONE contains Book 1: Immortality Isn't Forever and Book 2: The Gods of Business, with new notes from the author.
Download or read book Bacchus in Romantic England written by A. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-11-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age. It grounds this 'reality' in writings by doctors and philanthropists from 1780 onwards, who describe an epidemic of drunkenness. These commentators provide a context for the different ways that poets and novelists of the age represent drunkards. Wordsworth writes poems and essays evaluating the drunken career of his model Robert Burns. Charles Lamb's essays and letters reveal a real and metaphorical preoccupation with his own drinking as a way of disguising his personal suffering; his companion Coleridge writes drinking songs, essays about drunkenness, and meditations about his own weakness of will that show both festive inebriety and consciousness of an inward abyss; Coleridge's son Hartley, whose fate his father had prophesied, experiences drunkenness as the life-long humiliation described in his poems and letters. Keats's complex dionysianism runs through 'Endymion' and the late odes, setting him at odds with his temperate hero Milton. Men in the Romantic age, such as Sheridan, Byron, Moor, and Clare, celebrate rowdy friendship with tales and songs of drinking; Romantic women novelists such as Smith, Edgeworth and Wollstonecraft depict these men stumbling home to abuse their wives. Although excessive drinking is real in the period, observers and participants can still maintain ambivalence about its power to release or to debase the human being.
Download or read book The Adventures of Mr Maximillian Bacchus His Traveling Circus written by Clive Barker and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximillian Bacchus is the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he considers the greatest show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile named Malachi, a trapeze girl named Ophelia, a strong mane they call Hero, which is short for Hieronymus a clown named Domingo de Ybarrondo, who paints in a wagon pulled by a giant "Ibis bird," the troupe wanders from adventure to adventure with mythic aplomb. From the first story, in which Indigo Murphy, the best bird handler in the world leaves the show to join in matrimony with the Duke Lorenzo de Medici, to the fabled court of Kubla Khan, the magic never stops. You will meet a young apple thief named Angelo with magic eyes, and an orang-outang named Bathsheba, and a host of other amazing characters with names and personas cut like a patchwork quilt from the mythologies and dreams of the world. Though written forty years ago, these pages are littered with the same magical side steps that have always been woven into Clive Barker's fiction. Worlds not quit our own, and yet so real they ring with truth and leave you wishing you could step from your mundane life into that other place - into those caves of ice - if only long enough to catch Maximillian's show. Includes the original illustrations by Richard A. Kirk from the limited edition.
Download or read book Tears of Bacchus written by Michael Karam and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears of Bacchus relates the story of wine in the Middle East, essentially Lebanon and Syria, from the dawn of time to the present day in the form of a linear series of essays written in various "voices"--historian, archaeologist, novelist, wine writer, journalist, curator, anthropologist. It charts wine's influence on early civilizations and cultures, religion and mythology, before heading off into the Byzantine, Medieval Ottoman and ultimately the modern era, an age defined by strife and instability. With an introduction by Hugh Johnson.
Download or read book Bacchus Et Ariane written by Sébastien Gallet and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fishtail Bacchus Sundance and Slapshot written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel According to the Heathen Bacchus Elucidated By the Author of Evidences of a Belief in the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
