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Book Synopsis Artemisia I: Warrior-Queen by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book Artemisia I: Warrior-Queen written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artemisia I of Caria, the warrior-queen, experiences bone-crunching defeat at the Battle of Salamis and later finds herself washed upon the shores of Ephesus. She discovers that this is the land of the Amazons, and that she is the new Amazon. A king tells her that a special purpose awaits her if she is willing to embrace her new life.
Book Synopsis Artemisia I: the Coyness of Queens by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book Artemisia I: the Coyness of Queens written by Costas Komborozos and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Write the words. Write about her. Not me, her, he says. I realize that I am imagining this moment of selflessness on the part of the king. I imagine Xerxes saying that Artemisia was better than him. And then I remember how the Persian king once said that Artemisia's display of courage and bravery in battle testified to how men were created from women rather than the other way around. Now, Xerxes motions for me to continue telling his story, which he somehow views as inseparable from the life of Artemisia. Imperious laughter echoed down the corridors of her unconsciousness. Artemisia felt herself rising from deep sleep, glimpsing an inferno raging across a dark sea. Measured footfalls punctured the airy silence of dreaming. The doors of a palace swung open in ominous unison, letting a dark tempest sweep across the gold and marble interior. The war was coming. Artemisia felt the seismic thrust of the dark storm's airy sword. She felt the seamless calm enclosed within the soothing white walls being shattered. Her girlhood now seemed like a distant citadel swallowed whole by the unrelenting storm. The wind was now fiercer than ever, and Artemisia felt herself grow Amazon-like in the face of the unabated storm. The jewel-encrusted crown that her father Lygdamis had placed on her head was now gone, swept away by the storm. The wind plucked memory after memory from her disarrayed mind. Then utter certainty spread throughout her, emboldening her and pushing her to remain firm. Artemisia was now a warrior-queen, gazing defiantly into the dark storm. She marched toward the blackness. With every step forward, the storm retreated. Within moments, she saw the storm withdraw itself into a remote, obscure distance. Artemisia wondered if a part of the storm had entered and twisted the entrails of everything she knew. Now, she felt the same dark wind, only this time it breathed intangibly from a glorious distance. General Themistocles of Athens was readying his naval force to face the Persians at Salamis. Mardonius suggested that the Persians attack the Athenians at sea. Artemisia advised against this course of action. Now, the Persians were preparing for a battle at sea.
Download or read book Artemisia I written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After killing the Ephesian king and becoming the new Amazon queen, Artemisia realizes that she has not yet fulfilled her destiny. A ship arrives in Ephesus and reveals that a larger time span has elapsed since the Battle of Salamis than Artemisia previously believed. The ship carries her son Pisindelis, who is eager to meet the queen. Artemisia realizes that twenty years have passed since Salamis, and that the last time she saw her son was when he was an infant. A series of events forces her to come to terms with the past as well as the future that awaits her. "Destiny is a blade, a streak of silver unbending in the unyielding dark. The warrior-queen treads in the snowy sand dunes of time, the ghost of her every movement following her close behind. She moves as the intangible blade moves, piercing a benumbing white horizon. The blade penetrates the dark of the unknown while she drifts along with the ghost of her previous steps. Her footprints instantly dissolve upon every succeeding step forward. Artemisia peers into the cold oblivion before her eyes. She marches on undaunted, untrammeled by the aimless white sea of euphoria. Then she hears her name being uttered slowly, the sweet enunciation of it scraping the bare bones of half-remembrance. Her father Lygdamis appears before her, but she drifts forward as before. A daughterly yet disobedient look crosses her eyes, and a part of her becomes stationary. She becomes as fixed as the spark of a flame that floods her mind with memories. Lygdamis raises a crown before her. Once he places the crown on her head, her monochrome surroundings fade. "You are now queen, my beloved daughter. You are Queen Artemisia I of Caria." At that moment, she feels that she is Athena freshly sprung from the brow of Zeus as she prepares to bestride mortal horizons. Lygdamis gaze remains loving, as loving as she has always remembered him. Then the streak persists along the same spotless desert, allowing her to once again become immune to the perverse migrations of memory. She no longer feels her crown on her head. She feels another crown.
Download or read book Artemisia written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny is a blade, a streak of silver unbending in the unyielding dark. The warrior-queen treads in the snowy sand dunes of time, the ghost of her every movement following her close behind. She moves as the intangible blade moves, piercing a benumbing white horizon. The blade penetrates the dark of the unknown while she drifts along with the ghost of her previous steps. Her footprints instantly dissolve upon every succeeding step forward. Artemisia peers into the cold oblivion before her eyes. She marches on undaunted, untrammeled by the aimless white sea of euphoria. Then she hears her name being uttered slowly, the sweet enunciation of it scraping the bare bones of half-remembrance. Her father Lygdamis appears before her, but she drifts forward as before. A daughterly yet disobedient look crosses her eyes, and a part of her becomes stationary. She becomes as fixed as the spark of a flame that floods her mind with memories. Lygdamis raises a crown before her. Once he places the crown on her head, her monochrome surroundings fade. "You are now queen, my beloved daughter. You are Queen Artemisia I of Caria." At that moment, she feels that she is Athena freshly sprung from the brow of Zeus as she prepares to bestride mortal horizons. Lygdamis' gaze remains loving, as loving as she has always remembered him. Then the streak persists along the same spotless desert, allowing her to once again become immune to the perverse migrations of memory. She no longer feels her crown on her head. She feels another crown. The silver streak now becomes a blade fully whole, entering the king of Ephesus. Artemisia fully inhabits the present, fully savoring this moment in time. She has become an Amazon queen, observing the lavish interior of the palace that now belongs to her. All the palace guards have been slain at her hand. The king of the palace lays dead a few paces from her. Artemisia peers into the formless void, and the vast desert in her mind recedes. Now, she rises and steps beyond the pristine realm of royal security. At the corner of her eye, she nearly imagines Xerxes' imperious laughter drowning in the silences of his newly expired empire. She sees him vanish instantly. Artemisia steps outside the palace. She is a blade piercing the unknown, bending a blackness unknown to her in order to make it fully known to her. She walks.
Book Synopsis Warrior Queens by : Vicky Alvear Shecter
Download or read book Warrior Queens written by Vicky Alvear Shecter and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true life stories of six little-known fierce ancient warrior queens are told with humor and vivid detail by an award-winning writer. For young readers seeking to be inspired by stories of strong women, this riveting book shines a light on six powerful ancient queens. Highlighting women warriors who ruled in ancient eras, like Hatshepsut in 1492 BCE Egypt, and Zenobia in 260 CE Palmyra, the stories span the globe to reveal the hidden histories of queens who challenged men and fought for the right to rule their queendoms. Award-winning author Vicky Alvear Shectar's lively text and acclaimed illustrator Bill Mayer's witty illustrations showcase these stories filled with history, power, and humor.
Book Synopsis A Tale of Two Warrior-Queens by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book A Tale of Two Warrior-Queens written by Costas Komborozos and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Gorgo of Sparta and Queen Artemisia of Caria vie for the Amazonian throne, which they believe will allow them to reign supreme over all other thrones: "She looks into the eyes of the Amazon. She is a queen. A warrior-queen. Gorgo rises from her throne. Her eyes briefly linger on the marble beneath her feet. Then the quickening of sunlight sends her mind drifting upon the unmoving gaze of the Amazon, whose eyes look deep into hers and spark an image in the Spartan queen's mind: the sight of two warrior-queens clashing. Gorgo sees herself fighting with Artemisia as a sea of dust surrounds them. Then other images burst upon her inner calm. The glittering array of the Athenian naval fleet sends the Persians wailing voicelessly in the watery entombment that enfolds them in seconds, and then in the untidy bosom of despair. Artemisia falls below the dimmed surface of the ocean. The Amazon stands before Gorgo, but remains silent. In a single moment, she turns around and leaves as Gorgo wonders if the encounter between her and the queen of Artemisia will occur. "Come back, Amazon. Come back!" At first, she believes the Amazon can hear her. But then she realizes that her words remain inaudible as they were instantly shredded to tatters by her own sense of unwavering anticipation."
Book Synopsis Artemisia of Caria by : Shirin Yim Bridges
Download or read book Artemisia of Caria written by Shirin Yim Bridges and published by Goosebottom Books. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago, in the world of the Ancient Greeks where women were expected to obey their husbands in all matters, to play no part in public life, and to stay inside the house, a princess grew up to be not only a sailor and a ship’s captain, but a famous admiral. Her name was Artemisia, and among all the commanders fighting on the Persian side during the great Persian Wars, she alone dared to give Xerxes an honest opinion that could have saved his entire fleet. This is the story of a real and remarkable princess whose spirit prompted the Persian Great King, Xerxes, to declare, "My men have become women, and my women men!"
Book Synopsis Artemisia I: Hades and Elysium by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book Artemisia I: Hades and Elysium written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It came upon her, the dreaded kiss of the dark. Artemisia saw it concealing her war-filled eyes, feeling its voiceless scream enter her heart again and again. Then all was still, and the discolored sky sent her eyes drifting towards silver visages gleaming with contorted malice. She saw it again, the burning horizon in her dreams. Then she saw the glittering reinforcements of the Persian naval fleet. The night air pulsated gently in her ears, speaking softly like waves of trembling ether. War smiled darkly on some lingering trace of dreamlike innocence deep inside her. Artemisia returned the smile, feeling any remnant of her girlhood recede beneath the waves. She remembers her adolescence and how she maintained a prudent and daughterly demeanor before her father as he fulfilled his kingly affairs. Life in Caria seemed utterly oblivious to the brutality of the battlefield. Artemisia saw the Athenian ships in the distance. She felt her mind's nightmarish return to the battle-torn sea. She was no longer the queen blooming with memories of youth. She was now a warrior-queen. Xerxes speaks her name again. He utters her name in his dying breath. "Artemisia." Her name echoes across an unseen battlefield. I stand before him as he sees himself crawl along a battlefield. Xerxes struggles to move as he crawls slowly. Suddenly, he sees two feet marching toward him. They are the feet of a woman. Xerxes looks up and sees her. Artemisia. She looks down at him in silence. He wants to call out for help. He wants her to help him rise. But the words die in his throat. Artemisia looks down at him in disappointment. Xerxes is unable to bear the weight of her gaze, for he sees the disappointment in her eyes. Then he sees his throne in the near distance. The throne begins to lose stability and now appears to him as ghostly. Xerxes calls out her name again: "Artemisia." She remains silent as she observes him. Xerxes struggles to keep crawling, but then his efforts come to an end. He feels her shadow moving over him. He does not see her as she departs into the distance and is swallowed whole by history's shadows. Xerxes' vision fails him now. There is only darkness.
Book Synopsis Queen Artemisia, C.1609 (pen & Ink on Paper). by :
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Download or read book Warrior Queens written by Antonia Fraser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others.
Download or read book 300 written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flames sputter all around me as dusk descends on a field of scars. Then I see her moving toward me. She moves through the drifting haze and billowing cloaks that breathe imperishable glory. She moves like a sword through the wind. Artemisia maintains her eyes on me. I can feel her eyes resting on my broken face. In my dreams, I have died on many battlefields, and each time I find myself bathing in the ghostly embrace of immortal glory. I glimpsed the visage of the dead emperor and said, "Xerxes, freedom lets loose an epic tide that conquers all horizons. Freedom transcends time. It needs no beginning nor end." In my dreams I killed Artemisia over and over gain. But then she lives again, reliving every rebellious breath. Write the words. Write about her. Not me, her, he says. I realize that I am imagining this moment of selflessness on the part of the king. I imagine Xerxes saying that Artemisia was better than him. And then I remember how the Persian king once said that Artemisia's display of courage and bravery in battle testified to how men were created from women rather than the other way around. Now, Xerxes motions for me to continue telling his story, which he somehow views as inseparable from the life of Artemisia. But the story of history returns to the events that shaped Artemisia's life: Imperious laughter echoed down the corridors of her unconsciousness. Artemisia felt herself rising from deep sleep, glimpsing an inferno raging across a dark sea. Measured footfalls punctured the airy silence of dreaming. The doors of a palace swung open in ominous unison, letting a dark tempest sweep across the gold and marble interior. The war was coming. Artemisia felt the seismic thrust of the dark storm's airy sword. She felt the seamless calm enclosed within the soothing white walls being shattered. Her girlhood now seemed like a distant citadel swallowed whole by the unrelenting storm. The wind was now fiercer than ever, and Artemisia felt herself grow Amazon-like in the face of the unabated storm. The jewel-encrusted crown that her father Lygdamis had placed on her head was now gone, swept away by the storm. The wind plucked memory after memory from her disarrayed mind. Then utter certainty spread throughout her, emboldening her and pushing her to remain firm. Artemisia was now a warrior-queen, gazing defiantly into the dark storm. She marched toward the blackness. With every step forward, the storm retreated. Within moments, she saw the storm withdraw itself into a remote, obscure distance. Artemisia wondered if a part of the storm had entered and twisted the entrails of everything she knew. Now, she felt the same dark wind, only this time it breathed intangibly from a glorious distance.
Book Synopsis Images of a Queen's Power by : Susan C. Jones
Download or read book Images of a Queen's Power written by Susan C. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 300: War of the Warrior-Queens by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book 300: War of the Warrior-Queens written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny is a blade, a streak of silver unbending in the unyielding dark. The warrior-queen treads in the snowy sand dunes of time, the ghost of her every movement following her close behind. She moves as the intangible blade moves, piercing a benumbing white horizon. The blade penetrates the dark of the unknown while she drifts along with the ghost of her previous steps. Her footprints instantly dissolve upon every succeeding step forward. Artemisia peers into the cold oblivion before her eyes. She marches on undaunted, untrammeled by the aimless white sea of euphoria. Then she hears her name being uttered slowly, the sweet enunciation of it scraping the bare bones of half-remembrance. Her father Lygdamis appears before her, but she drifts forward as before. A daughterly yet disobedient look crosses her eyes, and a part of her becomes stationary. She becomes as fixed as the spark of a flame that floods her mind with memories. Lygdamis raises a crown before her. Once he places the crown on her head, her monochrome surroundings fade. "You are now queen, my beloved daughter. You are Queen Artemisia I of Caria." At that moment, she feels that she is Athena freshly sprung from the brow of Zeus as she prepares to bestride mortal horizons. Lygdamis' gaze remains loving, as loving as she has always remembered him. Then the streak persists along the same spotless desert, allowing her to once again become immune to the perverse migrations of memory. She no longer feels her crown on her head. She feels another crown. The silver streak now becomes a blade fully whole, entering the king of Ephesus. Artemisia fully inhabits the present, fully savoring this moment in time. She has become an Amazon queen, observing the lavish interior of the palace that now belongs to her. All the palace guards have been slain at her hand. The king of the palace lays dead a few paces from her. Artemisia peers into the formless void, and the vast desert in her mind recedes. Now, she rises and steps beyond the pristine realm of royal security. At the corner of her eye, she nearly imagines Xerxes' imperious laughter drowning in the silences of his newly expired empire. She sees him vanish instantly. Artemisia steps outside the palace. She is a blade piercing the unknown, bending a blackness unknown to her in order to make it fully known to her. She walks.
Book Synopsis Artemisia I: Dawn of Artemisium by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book Artemisia I: Dawn of Artemisium written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious warrior tries to determine whether Artemisia's glorious life was based on free will or fate. He observes the life of Artemisia from a distance, but also at a glorious proximity. He observes her life unfold and helps to shape the events that allow her to become a woman of universal and unbreakable renown. He realizes that observing and shaping her life will allow him to solve the mystery of his own existence. " "She was something akin to an Amazon. Those who fought at Salamis all recalled her unmatched bravery. Xerxes lavished his royal praises on her, heaping words of admiration upon her military prestige. Someone had to write about her, to document her uniquely renowned valor. Do you not believe in destiny? It renders our mightiest thoughts and endeavors feeble."
Book Synopsis Of Shadows and She-Wolves: Stories of Queen Gorgo and Queen Artemisia by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book Of Shadows and She-Wolves: Stories of Queen Gorgo and Queen Artemisia written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Queen Gorgo and Queen Artemisia stories delves into a world embroiled in war and relentless instability, and two warrior-queens who learn to survive in it.
Download or read book The Spartans written by Paul Cartledge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2003-05-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable . . . [The author’s] crystalline prose, his vivacious storytelling and his lucid historical insights combine here to provide a first-rate history.” —Publishers Weekly Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia—a remarkably evolved society whose warrior heroes were forbidden any other trade, profession, or business. As a people, the Spartans were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, the nobility of arms in a cause worth dying for, sacrificing the individual for the greater good of the community (illustrated by their role in the battle of Thermopylae), and the triumph over seemingly insuperable obstacles—qualities often believed today to signify the ultimate heroism. In this book, distinguished scholar and historian Paul Cartledge, long considered the leading international authority on ancient Sparta, traces the evolution of Spartan society—the culture and the people as well as the tremendous influence they had on their world and even ours. He details the lives of such illustrious and myth-making figures as Lycurgus, King Leonidas, Helen of Troy (and Sparta), and Lysander, and explains how the Spartans, while placing a high value on masculine ideals, nevertheless allowed women an unusually dominant and powerful role—unlike Athenian culture, with which the Spartans are so often compared. In resurrecting this culture and society, Cartledge delves into ancient texts and archeological sources and includes illustrations depicting original Spartan artifacts and drawings, as well as examples of representational paintings from the Renaissance onward—including J.L. David’s famously brooding Leonidas. “A pleasure for anyone interested in the ancient world.” —Kirkus Reviews “[An] engaging narrative . . . In his panorama of the real Sparta, Cartledge cloaks his erudition with an ease and enthusiasm that will excite readers from page one.” —Booklist “Our greatest living expert on Sparta.” —Tom Holland, prize-winning author of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Download or read book Artemisia written by Carlo Goldoni and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
