Download or read book Memnon and Other Poems written by John Edmund Reade and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shades of Memnon written by Gregory Lyle Walker and published by Seker Nefer Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memnon written by Scott Oden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BC) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic grasp." A contemporary of Demosthenes and Aristotle, Memnon rose from humble origins to command the whole of western Asia in a time of strife and slaughter. To his own people, he was a traitor, to his rivals, a mercenary. But, to the King of Kings, his majesty Darius III of Persia, Memnon was the one man capable of defending Asia Minor from the rising power of the barbaric Macedonians. In a war pitting Greek against Greek, Memnon proved his quality beyond measure. His enemies fought for glory and gold; Memnon fought for something more: for loyalty, for honour, and for duty. He fought for the love of Barsine, a woman of remarkable beauty and grace, but most of all, he fought for the promise of peace. Through the deathbed recollections of a mysterious woman, the life of Memnon unfolds with brilliant clarity. It is a record of his triumphs and tragedies, his loves and losses, and of the determination that drove him to stand against the most renowned figure of the ancient world - an ambitious and brilliant young conqueror called Alexander the Great.

Download or read book The Language of Ruins written by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to "speak" regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, tourists flocked to the colossus of Memnon to hear the miraculous sound, and left behind their marks of devotion (proskynemata): brief acknowledgments of having heard Memnon's cry; longer lists by Roman administrators; and more elaborate elegiac verses by both amateur and professional poets. The inscribed names left behind reveal the presence of emperors and soldiers, provincial governors and businessmen, elite women and military wives, and families with children. While recent studies of imperial literature acknowledge the colossus, few address the inscriptions themselves. This book is the first critical assessment of all the inscriptions considered in their social, cultural, and historical context. The Memnon colossus functioned as a powerful site of engagement with the Greek past, and appealed to a broad segment of society. The inscriptions shed light on contemporary attitudes toward sacred tourism, the role of Egypt in the Greco-Roman imagination, and the cultural legacy of Homeric epic. Memnon is a ghost from the Homeric past anchored in the Egyptian present, and visitors yearned for a "close encounter" that would connect them with that distant past. The inscriptions thus idealize Greece by echoing archaic literature in their verses at the same time as they reflect their own historical horizon. These and other subjects are expertly explored in the book, including a fascinating chapter on the colossus's post-classical life when the statue finds new worshippers among Romantic artists and poets in nineteenth-century Europe.

Download or read book Preludes for Memnon written by Conrad Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Two Angels and Other Poems With an Introductory Sketch by Rev G Gilfillan Etc written by Alexander ANDERSON (of Kirkconnell.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Pneumatogony a Poem with Other Poems written by John Wood Tombs and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lycidas Comus L Allegro Il Penseroso and Other Poems written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors written by S. Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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