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Author : Kitty Balbernie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Arion of Lesbos written by Kitty Balbernie and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Paradox Lost written by Michael Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Paradox Lost written by Michael Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucy McDowell Milburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lost Letters from Lesbos written by Lucy McDowell Milburn and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex G. Tsagarellis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146700832X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Once Upon a Time, on Lesbos written by Alex G. Tsagarellis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the seventh century B.C. the rival aristocrats of Mytilene - the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos - heading the various political factions, contended with each other for supreme power. Alcaeus, the poet, and his elder brother, bellicose Antimenidas, joined forces with Phanias and Pittacus and made plans to overthrow Myrsilus, who had risen to power with the support of the middle class, the merchants and marines. Their conspiracy was betrayed and everyone but Pittacus, who changed sides at the very last moment and became the prime target of Alcaeus' libels, had to flee into exile, to inland Pyrrha. Young Sappho, who was their contemporary, and whose political sympathies lay with Alcaeus, followed them, too. This novel relates their adventures from that point on. Historical information available with regard to the protagonists, as well as ideas and feelings depicted in their poetry and dicta preserved to this day, are the basic elements which intertwine with fiction in the effort to achieve successful restructuring of their time and life in an era which set the foundations for Greece's Golden Age. The outcome is an exciting story full of passion, bravery, love, friendship, and of unparalleled achievements.
Author : Lin Sten
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537463797
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Return to Lesbos written by Lin Sten and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Peloponnesian War ... Athens' initial impulse is to put to death every male in Mytilene, on Lesbos, and to sell all the women and children into slavery. At this very time, Arion must return to Mytilene to retrieve the family estate from his treacherous uncle, find his mate and free her, and then return to Athens to make an enormous payment ... or face a return to the mines"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arion & the Dolphin written by Vikram Seth and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arion and the Dolphin is an opera in nine scenes for professionals and community performers. The libretto is by Vikram Seth and the music is composed by Alec Roth. Recounted with Seth s inimitable charm, it is the story of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in Corinth. Thrown overboard on his return from a musical contest in Sicily, Arion is saved and befriended by a dolphin.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arion written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Frye
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Other Sappho written by Ellen Frye and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Obscure Greek folklore inspires this novel about a young lesbian slave named Lykaina ("wolf-woman''). After her mistress instructs her to seek out the elegant Sappho and her famous school of poetry, Lykaina undertakes her own small odyssey from Sparta to the celebrated island of Lesbos. En route she meets Maia, a travel companion extraordinaire who initiates her into the worship of the Earth Mother. Once in Sappho's home, Lykaina thrives: "This is a palace of love. . . . This is a land of poetry. Here I belong.'' Eventually, however, she leaves the court, offended by the other poets' disdain for the less privileged. Lykaina returns to Maia, who urges her to recite for the country people so close to her heart. With Maia's patronage, the "other Sappho'' evolves her own school of poetry. From descriptions of markets and clothing to expositions of women's love affairs and the art of verse, Frye (The Marble Threshing Floor: A Collection of Greek Folk Songs ) shores up her imaginings with persuasive research. "--Goodreads
Author : Lin Sten
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511801546
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Life After Death at Ipsambul written by Lin Sten and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the decades-long assault by despotic gigantic Persia on the allied Greek states, the Greeks were finally victorious. Now, in the ancient Mediterranean world of Life After Death at Ipsambul, war is imminent among the Greeks. Arion, the only child of a wealthy mercantile family on idyllic Lesbos, had the education and security to evolve into a poetic soul. Now, as a boy growing into a man, he is thrust into a violent world. To survive, he must adjust and overcome the injustice and cruelty of it; on his journey, he finds that the surprising puzzle of life allows romance and religion only in portions of reality, hope, and fantasy. The novel spans twelve years, ending in 433 BC. If you would like to experience life in the ancient Mediterranean world, then you will probably enjoy this adult story about coming-of-age there. This novel is as finely detailed as Melville's Moby-Dick, but less than half as long. Arion's Odyssey is a tetralogy, which is composed of Life After Death at Ipsambul, Aegean Fire, Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos, and Return to Lesbos. All of these novels have been written; professional editing is complete only on the first. Set in the ancient Mediterranean world, Arion's Odyssey (the tetralogy) is an adult coming-of-age story about Arion, a sensitive Greek male (boy becoming a man) from a wealthy mercantile family on the Greek island of Lesbos. It begins fourteen years prior to the inception of the Peloponnesian War, and ends during that war: the tetralogy spans the period from 445 BC to 427 BC.
Author : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400834899
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Arion's Lyre written by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets, the book shows that Archaic poets often look very different in the new social, cultural, and political setting of Hellenistic Alexandria. For example, the Alexandrian Sappho evolves from the singer of Archaic Lesbos but has distinct associations and contexts, from Ptolemaic politics and Macedonian queens to the new phenomenon of the poetry book and an Alexandrian scholarship intent on preservation and codification. A study of Hellenistic poetic culture and an interpretation of some of the Archaic poets it so lovingly preserved, Arion's Lyre is also an examination of how one poetic culture reads another--and how modern readings of ancient poetry are filtered and shaped by earlier readings.
Author : Joseph Braddock
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sappho's Island written by Joseph Braddock and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lin Sten
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976498749
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Aegean Fire written by Lin Sten and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aegean Fire, in 433 BC in Classical Greece, from his chained position at his oar, Arion catches a glimpse of Athens' fabled Akropolis through an oarport of the trireme commanded by his nemesis, Smerdis. Despite the fantasies of his childhood as the scion of a wealthy mercantile family on Lesbos, when he had always dreamed of coming here, he now hates Athens. After the Battle of Sybota, due to previous violent insubordination witnessed by Artontes, Arion's new master, Arion is dispatched to the dreaded mines in Laurion. In 431 BC, like all other movable property, Arion is brought back to Athens for the duration of the first Peloponnesian summer occupation of Attica. After Arion nurses Artontes' wife and child through the plague, Artontes shows his appreciation by assigning Arion to an oarbench on one of his cargo ships, but exposure to pirates might be more threatening than the plague, naval battles, or the mines. To assist potential readers in making good choices about whether or not to purchase any of the four volumes of Arion's Odyssey, I offer the following additional information about this tetralogy, which is set in Classical Greece, with the city-state (polis) of Athens as one protagonist and Arion (a male human) as the other. Each volume of Arion's Odyssey is a combination of historical novel, ancient travelogue, ancient poetry, mythology, religion, and history. If you would enjoy a historical tetralogy as detailed as Melville's Moby-Dick, as kaleidoscopic as Michener's Iberia, and as expansive as Hugo's Les Miserable, you might love this tetralogy. Regarding Athens and its empire, the following portion of each novel is similar to an ancient travelogue:one third of Life After Death at Ipsambul (volume 1);one fifth of Aegean Fire (volume 2);one tenth of Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos (volume 3);one tenth of Return to Lesbos (volume 4). Set in the ancient Mediterranean world, Arion's Odyssey (the tetralogy) is an adult coming-of-age story about Arion, a sensitive Greek male (boy becoming a man) from a wealthy mercantile family on the Greek island of Lesbos. It begins fourteen years prior to the inception of the Peloponnesian War, and ends during that war: the tetralogy spans the period from 445 BC to 427 BC. If you would like to experience life in the ancient Mediterranean world, then you will probably enjoy this adult story about coming-of-age there.
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781858814308
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Arion and the Dolphin written by Vikram Seth and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book based on the legend of Arion, the young musician whose friendship with the dolphin that saves his life is ended when the dolphin is captured and dies. Jane Ray's luscious, evocative paintings harmonize with the text, a wonderful mixture of verse and prose adapted from Vikram Seth's libretto for an opera commissioned by the English National Opera.
Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917154
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Laughter of Aphrodite written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task "rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amphora from hundreds of shards—of which more than half are missing." Yet, in his synthesis of historical evidence and ebullient invention, Green produces a seamless, moving, and persuasive portrait. He recreates Sappho's life by interweaving her surviving poetry into the narrative, not as quotations, but as her own imagined speeches and thoughts. Sappho's life spanned one of the most exciting periods in Greek history. Green's novel, full of details about daily life on ancient Lesbos, draws the reader into the political and social climate of her world: the civil strife accompanying the transition from aristocracy to mercantilism, the household relations between slave and aristocrat, the details of sea travel in the Aegean. Green wrote the novel while living on Lesbos, and his graceful rendering of the landscape, the rhythms of the seasons, and the varied flora of Sappho's island pervades the narrative. Sappho's poetry reveals a direct, spontaneous woman who eschewed artifice and embellishment. Green's extraordinary talent captures those qualities and brings this woman of unflinching honesty very much to life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final l
Author : Lin Sten
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539669401
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos written by Lin Sten and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos, in 430 BC, by Arion's courageous response to the pirate attack north of Kaphereos Promontory, he earns back some of the trust and goodwill that he lost when he tried to escape his servitude. Then, from 430 BC - 428 BC, come several naval battles and the plague: dangerous times, but times for a man of courage. If Arion has learned enough of patience and subservience, can he hope for a generous manumission? And then comes the revolt of Lesbos in 428 BC, which tests Arion's patience and that of Athens. Maybe he has waited too long. To assist potential readers in making good choices about whether or not to purchase any of the four volumes of Arion's Odyssey, I offer the following additional information about this tetralogy, which is set in Classical Greece, with the city-state (polis) of Athens as one protagonist and Arion (a male human) as the other. Each volume of Arion's Odyssey is a combination of historical novel, ancient travelogue, ancient poetry, mythology, religion, and history. If you would enjoy a historical tetralogy as detailed as Melville's Moby-Dick, as kaleidoscopic as Michener's Iberia, and as expansive as Hugo's Les Miserable, you might love this tetralogy. Regarding Athens and its empire, the following portion of each novel is similar to an ancient travelogue:one third of Life After Death at Ipsambul (volume 1);one fifth of Aegean Fire (volume 2);one tenth of Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos (volume 3);one tenth of Return to Lesbos (volume 4). Set in the ancient Mediterranean world, Arion's Odyssey (the tetralogy) is an adult coming-of-age story about Arion, a sensitive Greek male (boy becoming a man) from a wealthy mercantile family on the Greek island of Lesbos. It begins fourteen years prior to the inception of the Peloponnesian War, and ends during that war: the tetralogy spans the period from 445 BC to 427 BC. If you would like to experience life in the ancient Mediterranean world, then you will probably enjoy this adult story about coming-of-age there.
Author : Margaret Leland Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Sappho of Lesbos written by Margaret Leland Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
