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Book Paris and Oenone

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  • Author : Laurence Binyon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Paris and Oenone written by Laurence Binyon and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1873
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book none written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition

Download or read book Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition written by Tania Demetriou and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywood's fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends to the shaping role of classics in his authorial self-fashioning and idiosyncratic aesthetic.

Book The Arraignment of Paris  1584

Download or read book The Arraignment of Paris 1584 written by George Peele and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Ships Before Troy

Download or read book Black Ships Before Troy written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Greek myth fans, those who can’t get enough of the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, and readers who have aged out of Rick Riordan, this classroom staple and mythology classic is perfect for learning about the ancient myths! As the gods and goddesses of Olympus scheme, the ancient world is thrown into turmoil when Helen, the most beautiful woman in all of Greece, is stolen away by her Trojan love. Inflamed by jealousy, the Greek king seeks lethal vengeance and sends his black war ships to descend on the city of Troy. In the siege that follows, history’s greatest heroes, from Ajax to Achilles to Odysseus, are forged in combat, and the brutal costs of passion, pride, and revenge must be paid. In the end, the whims of the gods, the cunning of the warriors, and a great wooden horse will decide who emerges victorious. Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time and Rosemary Sutcliff's retelling of the classic saga embodies all of the astonishing drama, romance, and intrigue of ancient Greece. Don’t miss The Wanderings of Odysseus, the companion to Black Ships Before Troy, and follow Odysseus on his adventure home. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 6-8, Stories) in Appendix B.

Book Ovid s Heroides

Download or read book Ovid s Heroides written by Ovid and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman accidentally turns in a private story from her journal instead of an English assignment and becomes a best-selling author almost overnight.

Book Ovid s Heroides

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  • Author : Paul Murgatroyd
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-05-18
  • ISBN : 1351758942
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Ovid s Heroides written by Paul Murgatroyd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid’s Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, and an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her treatment elsewhere in Classical literature. Where relevant, reception in later literature, film, music and art, and feminist aspects of the myth are also covered. The book is augmented by an introduction covering Ovid's life and works, the Augustan background, originality of the Heroides, dating, authenticity, and reception. This is a vital new resource for anyone studying the poetry of Ovid, classical myth, or women in the ancient world. A useful glossary of characters mentioned in the Heroides concludes the book.

Book The Judgment of Paris

Download or read book The Judgment of Paris written by Peter Fandel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tale of Troy

Download or read book The Tale of Troy written by Roger Green and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Helen and the judgement of Paris, of the gathering Heroes and the seige of Troy; of Achilles and his vulnerable heel, reared by the Centaur on wild honey and the marrow of lions; of Odysseus, the last of the Heroes, his plan for the wooden Horse and his many adventures on his long journey home to Greece. Also contains a beautiful introduction by best-selling author Michelle Paver, and additional endmatter including an author profile, who's who, activities, glossary and more.

Book Untutored Lines

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  • Author : William P Weaver
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-07
  • ISBN : 0748644660
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Untutored Lines written by William P Weaver and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre.Weaver attends to one of the epyllion's defining dramas: boys in transition to adulthood. Whereas recent studies of the epyllion have posited sexuality as the primary, even exclusive, means of representing beautiful boys, Weaver discovers that Renaissance male sexuality itself is an effect of a disciplinary drama of pedagogical transition from boyhood to adolescence, grammar to rhetoric. This drama of differentiation, lucidly expounded by Weaver, is at the heart of the erotic epyllia of Shakespeare, Marlowe and their imitators.

Book The Favored of the Gods

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  • Author : Earl Hobson Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book The Favored of the Gods written by Earl Hobson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Trojan War

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  • Author : Olivia E. Coolidge
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780618154289
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book The Trojan War written by Olivia E. Coolidge and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1980 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells legends of the heroes of the Trojan War, which began with Paris of Troy's abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, lord of Greece.

Book The Ovidian Heroine as Author

Download or read book The Ovidian Heroine as Author written by Laurel Fulkerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a new departure, this book portrays the women of the Heroides as a community of authors. Combining close readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with critical methods, the book argues that the points of similarity between the different letters of the Heroides, so often derided by modern critics, represent a brilliant exploitation of intratextuality, in which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously fashions herself as an alluding author influenced by what she has read within the Heroides. Far from being naive and impotent victims, therefore, the heroines are remarkably astute, if not always successful, at adapting textual strategies that they perceive as useful for attaining their own ends. With this new approach Professor Fulkerson shows that the Heroides articulate a fictional poetic, mirroring contemporary practices of poetic composition.

Book Tennyson s Rapture

Download or read book Tennyson s Rapture written by Cornelia D. J. Pearsall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the subject of In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of intricately connected poems, many of which feature pivotal scenes of rapture, or being carried away. This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation-theological, social, political, or personal-and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics. The poet's fascination with transformation is figured formally in the genre he is credited with inventing, the dramatic monologue. Tennyson's Rapture investigates the poet's previously unrecognized intimacy with the theological movements in early Victorian Britain that are the acknowledged roots of contemporary Pentacostalism, with its belief in the oncoming Rapture, and its formative relation to his poetic innovation. Tennyson's work recurs persistently as well to classical instances of rapture, of mortals being borne away by immortals. Pearsall develops original readings of Tennyson's major classical poems through concentrated attention to his profound intellectual investments in advances in philological scholarship and archeological exploration, including pressing Victorian debates over whether Homer's raptured Troy was a verifiable site, or the province of the poet's imagination. Tennyson's attraction to processes of personal and social change is bound to his significant but generally overlooked Whig ideological commitments, which are illuminated by Hallam's political and philosophical writings, and a half-century of interaction with William Gladstone. Pearsall shows the comprehensive engagement of seemingly apolitical monologues with the rise of democracy over the course of Tennyson's long career. Offering a new approach to reading all Victorian dramatic monologues, this book argues against a critical tradition that sees speakers as unintentionally self-revealing and ignorant of the implications of their speech. Tennyson's Rapture probes the complex aims of these discursive performances, and shows how the ambitions of speakers for vital transformations in themselves and their circumstances are not only articulated in, but attained through, the medium of their monologues.

Book Troy

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  • Author : Adele Geras
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2014-08-07
  • ISBN : 1444922084
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Troy written by Adele Geras and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is scarce and death is common. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the Gods keep watch. But Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is bored with the endless, dreary war. Aided by Eros's bow, the goddess sends two sisters down a bloody path to an awful truth: In the fury of war, love strikes the deadliest blows. Heralded by fans and critics alike, Adèle Geras breathes personality, heartbreak, and humour into this classic story.

Book Troy and Her Legend

Download or read book Troy and Her Legend written by Arthur Milton Young and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1948-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of legend is that it is never simply an old tale retold. Though the legend may be old, its meaning and influence is new in each retelling and for each new group of listeners.Young provides here a "biography" of the greatest of the classical legends, the story of the fall of Troy. As he states in his book, the greatness of the legend does not depend on its relation to historical reality, but "lies rather in the beauty and variety it has called out of the creative imaginations of artists, from Homer down to modern times, artists who with varied skill and in many forms have expressed their individual genius." Young's text is beautifully illustrated with examples of art inspired by the legend, from literature, painting, ceramics, tapestry, sculpture, and the opera, with fresh interpretations of their meaning. The legend of Troy has survived more than 3,000 years in the art of many-from Quintus of Smyrna to Tennyson to Christopher Morley, Guerin to Baroccio to Strauss-and archaeological excavations in our own time have only enriched the imaginations of contemporary artists and scholars. In deepening our knowledge of classic texts and their changing interpretations over time, Young argues, we enhance our understanding both of the classics and of the successive civilizations they have influenced.

Book Helen of Troy

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  • Author : Ruby Blondell
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0190263539
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Ruby Blondell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.