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Book Synopsis Eternal Glory of Athena by : Ruchika Pradeep
Download or read book Eternal Glory of Athena written by Ruchika Pradeep and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternal glory of Athena is a fictional novel which talks about the adventures of 2 best friends and their thrilling journey in the magic land. This story is simply wonderful because of its mystery element and the suspense which holds the reader captivated till the end. When the reader feels the story is going to end there are unexpected twists and very interesting turns. The story highlights the beautiful bond between 2 best-friends. They say “A true friend is the real treasure” and they also say, “Friends are the family we choose ''. How far would you go for your best friend? Would you risk it all even risk your life?. Stories make you forget reality and take you to a wonderful dream land where magic exists and anything is possible.
Book Synopsis The Glory of Athens by : James Taris
Download or read book The Glory of Athens written by James Taris and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Taris was only nine when he fantasised about becoming an actor, but life got in the way and nothing happened for nearly forty years. By chance he saw an amateur theatre play and was so inspired to turn his childhood fantasy into reality that within six weeks he had written The Glory of Athens, a play that he performed twenty-nine times over the next twelve months - in nine countries, on five continents - while on a 400-day world tour. In this book, James goes into great detail explaining all the stages he went through to write, promote, produce and perform The Glory of Athens, his first ever play writing effort. It is an inspirational journey that will be enjoyed by budding writers and readers alike.About the Author James Taris is an accomplished author, poet, playwright, actor and public speaker. He has travelled to nineteen countries over the past three years, thus earning himself the title of a modern-day globetrotting Odysseus. He lives the life he advocates, sharing happiness and hope with audiences all over the world. An evening with James Taris can be a life-changing experience. This book reinforces his philosophy and attitude to life.Performance History I wrote The Glory of Athens in June 2003, while I was in Shanghai, China, at the beginning of my 400-Day World Tour. And I've since given quite a number of readings and performances - in theatres, halls, offices and homes - to the public and groups that have hosted me all over the world.James TarisSYNOPSIS The Glory of Athens is a comedy on overcoming adversity that has six Ancient Greek geniuses come back to life and display the characteristics which made them so successful. The six characters are Pericles, Archimedes, Socrates, Demosthenes, Homer and Odysseus. The play has some hilarious monologues from these six characters and Demi, a modern-day accountant, who is burdened with a seemingly impossible task. In a desperate bid for help, Demi prays to God, who sends the Ancient Greek goddess Athena to his aid. Athena gives Demi a bag of magical items which enable him to go back into time, around 440 BC, when the Parthenon was being built, and see these Ancient Greek masters in action, though not exactly how he'd imagined them to be. Pericles teaches him how to tackle problems by soliciting the help of the best minds available. Unfortunately, Pericles' army suffers huge losses in a recent battle, so he's now confronted with a much bigger crisis than Demi's: saving the glory of Athens. So, the focus then turns to finding someone to help Pericles solve his seemingly impossible task. Archimedes is self-centred and obsessed with his own genius, getting excited about even his smallest achievements. Socrates has just been practising and toning up his repertoire of clever arguments to confuse his opponents. Demosthenes is a smooth talker who has overcome a speech impediment by practising with a mouth full of marbles. Homer is very inspiring, and he shares, in verse, how, even though blind, he was able to use persistence and perseverance to realise his dreams. Odysseus is Pericles' last hope and in a flash of enlightenment, comes to the conclusion that we can have eternal glory by becoming the best we can be. But although each character is placed in ridiculously funny situations, they are all presented as strong role models for Demi, who gleans a little from each one on his journey to tackling he has been burdened him with. And the play builds to a very powerful conclusion, as we find out if Pericles can save The Glory of Athens, and if Demi can solve his own problem too.
Download or read book Stealing Athena written by Karen Essex and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stealing Athena is the story of two women, separated by centuries but united by their association with some of the world's greatest and most controversial works of art. Aspasia, a philosopher and courtesan to visionary politician Pericles during Athens's Golden Age, defies societal restrictions to become fiercely influential in Athens' power circle. Mary, the Countess of Elgin and a beautiful Scottish heiress, charms the fearsome men of the Ottoman Empire to make possible her husband's costly acquisitions, all the while brazenly defying the social conventions of her time. Both women prevail yet pay a heavy price for their rebellion. A tale of romance, intrigue, greed, and glory, Stealing Athena interweaves the lives of two of history's most beguiling heroines.
Book Synopsis The Origins of the Law in Homer by : Shulamit Almog
Download or read book The Origins of the Law in Homer written by Shulamit Almog and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in Paperback
Book Synopsis Magnus the Micro-Mutt and the Pharaoh’s Curse by :
Download or read book Magnus the Micro-Mutt and the Pharaoh’s Curse written by and published by E-Books Publisher. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Immortals Fenyx Rising: A Traveler's Guide to the Golden Isle by : Rick Barba
Download or read book Immortals Fenyx Rising: A Traveler's Guide to the Golden Isle written by Rick Barba and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Chryse, the Golden Isle! The king of the gods himself, Zeus, presents you with this indispensable travel guide to the ancient Greek island from Ubisoft’s Immortals Fenyx Rising video game. Follow the king of the gods on an expedition across the different regions of the dazzling island of Chryse: whether strolling through the lush painted gardens of the goddess Aphrodite, battling inside Ares’s fortress, or planning a boat trip across the river Styx, this full-color travel guide will keep you alive and thriving. In this glorious hardcover, readers will discover all about each region’s landmarks, secrets and legendary myths and will enjoy Zeus’s hot goss on the rest of the pantheon! Immortals Fenyx Rising: A Traveler's Guide to the Golden Isle is a must have for any fan of Immortals Fenyx Rising and Greek mythology.
Book Synopsis MAGNUS THE MICRO-MUTT & THE SPACE GOD by : RONALD & PHILIP KINSELLA
Download or read book MAGNUS THE MICRO-MUTT & THE SPACE GOD written by RONALD & PHILIP KINSELLA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Athena has a birthday surprise she?ll never forget! Living in the mid-21st Century, she ? along with her mechanical sidekick ?Magnus the Micro-Mutt? ? take a trip to Egypt where it is rumoured an archaeological team are unearthing the apparent remains of a creature ? a creature not of this world! Determined to seek out the elusive dig, Athena and Magnus find more than they bargained for upon locating the tomb and quickly realise that the infamous alien is not dead, rather ? suspended in hibernation. Carelessly interrupting the extra-terrestrial's slumber, Lord Sakkara is resurrected and his dreadful presence casts a shadow over the land. It is up to Athena, Magnus and their handsome bodyguard, Captain Scott, to confront the beast and to stop him from resuming command over planet Earth.
Download or read book Mirrors written by Eduardo Galeano and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: "Official history has it that Vasco Núde Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??" Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
Book Synopsis Hermes and Athena by : Eleonore Stump
Download or read book Hermes and Athena written by Eleonore Stump and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Post-Romantic Predicament by : Paul de Man
Download or read book Post-Romantic Predicament written by Paul de Man and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical texts from Paul de Man's Harvard University years, published for the first timeThese essays, brought together from the Paul de Man papers at the University of California (Irvine), make a significant contribution to the cultural history of deconstruction and the present state of literary theory. From 1955 to 1961, Paul de Man was Junior Fellow at Harvard University where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled 'The Post-Romantic Predicament: a study in the poetry of Mallarme and Yeats'. This dissertation is presented alongside his other texts from this period, including essays on Holderlin, Keats and Stefan George. This collection reflects familiar concerns for de Man: the figurative dimension of language, the borders between philosophy and literature, the ideological obfuscations of Romanticism, and the difficulties of the North American heritage of New Criticism.
Book Synopsis Awaiting the Heavenly Country by : Mark S. Schantz
Download or read book Awaiting the Heavenly Country written by Mark S. Schantz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They believed that a heavenly eternity of transcendent beauty awaited them beyond the grave. They knew that their heroic achievements would be cherished forever by posterity. They grasped that death itself might be seen as artistically fascinating and even beautiful."-from Awaiting the Heavenly Country How much loss can a nation bear? An America in which 620,000 men die at each other's hands in a war at home is almost inconceivable to us now, yet in 1861 American mothers proudly watched their sons, husbands, and fathers go off to war, knowing they would likely be killed. Today, the death of a soldier in Iraq can become headline news; during the Civil War, sometimes families did not learn of their loved ones' deaths until long after the fact. Did antebellum Americans hold their lives so lightly, or was death so familiar to them that it did not bear avoiding? In Awaiting the Heavenly Country, Mark S. Schantz argues that American attitudes and ideas about death helped facilitate the war's tremendous carnage. Asserting that nineteenth-century attitudes toward death were firmly in place before the war began rather than arising from a sense of resignation after the losses became apparent, Schantz has written a fascinating and chilling narrative of how a society understood death and reckoned the magnitude of destruction it was willing to tolerate. Schantz addresses topics such as the pervasiveness of death in the culture of antebellum America; theological discourse and debate on the nature of heaven and the afterlife; the rural cemetery movement and the inheritance of the Greek revival; death as a major topic in American poetry; African American notions of death, slavery, and citizenship; and a treatment of the art of death-including memorial lithographs, postmortem photography and Rembrandt Peale's major exhibition painting The Court of Death. Awaiting the Heavenly Country is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the Civil War and the ways in which antebellum Americans comprehended death and the unimaginable bloodshed on the horizon.
Download or read book EROS TRIUMPHANT written by John Likides and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set partly in the present and partly in the future, Eros Triumphant centers on Andora Panvion, a wealthy predator of plutocrats preventing humanity from organizing an orderly exodus from our solar system. The bloated Sun evaporated Earth’s oceans. A global desert stretches between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer while the poles bear the only seas and vegetation. Humans live in subterranean cities across the solar system and several alien star systems. Around the galaxy’s central black hole, a ring 3.14 light-years in diameter bears oceans, landmasses, cities, and form-shifting beings fond of existentialism. Eros finally kills Thanatos.
Download or read book Athena written by Lee Hall and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-04-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athena forsakes her elemental female virtues and identity as she is co-opted by the male-dominated warrior culture of the Mycenaeans.
Download or read book Heroes written by Stephen Fry and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes. Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly finds resonance with our own modern minds and hearts. Illustrated throughout with classical art inspired by the myths, this gorgeous volume invites you to explore a captivating world with a brilliant storyteller as your guide. • Each adventure is infused with Fry's distinctive voice and writing style. • Connoisseurs of the Greek myths will appreciate this fresh-yet-reverential interpretation, while newcomers will feel welcome. • Retellings brim with humor and emotion. "Mostly Chiron saw in the child, and the young man he became, boundless courage, athleticism, intelligence, and ambition. He saw too lots of words beginning with 'self,' which gave him pause. Self-belief, self-possession, self-righteousness, self-confidence, self-love. Perhaps these characteristics are as necessary to a hero as courage." In Heroes, Fry draws out the humor and pathos in both tender love affairs and heroic battles, and reveals each myth's relevance for our own time. • A collector's edition filled with classical art inspired by the myths and a luxe, foil-stamped jacket • Perfect gift for mythology and history buffs, lovers of ancient Greece, art aficionados, and devoted fans of Stephen Fry • Add it to the shelf with books like Circe by Madeline Miller, Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, and Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
Book Synopsis The Psychology of Inequality by : Michael Locke McLendon
Download or read book The Psychology of Inequality written by Michael Locke McLendon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Psychology of Inequality, Michael Locke McLendon looks to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought for insight into the personal and social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies. He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion of self-love, or amour-propre, found in Augustine and various early modern thinkers. McLendon traces the concept in Rousseau's work and reveals it to be a form of selfish vanity that mimics aspects of Homeric honor culture and, in the modern world, shapes the outlook of the wealthy and powerful as well as the underlying assumptions of meritocratic ideals. According to McLendon, Rousseau's elucidation of amour-propre describes a desire for glory and preeminence that can be dangerously antisocial, as those who believe themselves superior derive pleasure from dominating and even harming those they consider beneath them. Drawing on Rousseau's insights, McLendon asserts that certain forms of inequality, especially those associated with classical aristocracy and modern-day meritocracy, can corrupt the mindsets and personalities of people in socially disruptive ways. The Psychology of Inequality shows how amour-propre can be transformed into the demand for praise, whether or not one displays praiseworthy qualities, and demonstrates the ways in which this pathology continues to play a leading role in the psychology and politics of modern liberal democracies.
Book Synopsis Miracle in the Mundane by : Tyler Knott Gregson
Download or read book Miracle in the Mundane written by Tyler Knott Gregson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling author of Chasers of the Light pulls back the curtain on his creative process to share how to unlock creativity and lead a more mindful and compassionate life Every day, Tyler Knott Gregson posts romantic and striking poems on Instagram, enchanting his many fans with his authentic and deeply personal voice. He has a remarkable ability to see the beauty within the seemingly mundane moments of our lives, and above all else this is what keeps his fans coming back for more. Tyler's newest book showcases his inspiring poems, but it also goes one step deeper to reveal his secrets to cultivating this sense of wonder for the world. In this insightful guide, you will learn how to uncover your creativity, find inspiration, and live a life that is "more." Through a series of challenges, you are encouraged to write, draw, photograph, and share as you discover how to see yourself in a new way. Featuring exercises on mindfulness and self-expression as well as a poem for every prompt, this book will broaden your heart and mind to see the miracles hidden all around you.
Book Synopsis The Athenian Funeral Oration by : David M. Pritchard
Download or read book The Athenian Funeral Oration written by David M. Pritchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.
