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Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology

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Author : Luke Roman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438126395
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology written by Luke Roman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for more than two millennia, and its influence on cultures throughout Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East attests to the universal appeal of the stories. This title examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology together with the great works of classic literature.

Hesperides

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Author : Robert Herrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hesperides written by Robert Herrick and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition

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Author : Ann Baynes Coiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition written by Ann Baynes Coiro and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Five centuries of English verse

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Author : W.Stebbing
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5873930368
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Five centuries of English verse written by W.Stebbing and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1931 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities

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Author : Charles Russell Coulter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491795
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities written by Charles Russell Coulter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, humans have pondered the question of their existence. In nearly every society, part of the answer has included some form of god or goddess. For the Mayans, one such deity was Ajtzak, who tried to create humans from wood; for the Yorubas of Africa, Shango controlled the thunder and lightning. The Chinese of the Shang dynasty era worshipped Shang Ti. Evil deities were also part of the answer, as in the case of the Kuvera, the Hindu chief of evil in the Vedic period, and Tu, the Persian or Islamic demon of fatal accidents. All of the known ancient gods, many heretofore obscure or known only from mythological literature, are included in this exhaustive reference work. The focus is on their origins, histories, and functions. The people who believed in each deity are identified, along with alternate names or spellings both old and modern. The descriptions that follow are of the functions, origins and physical nature of the deities. Extensive cross references are provided for alternate spellings and names.

Myths and Legends

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Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756663652
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Legends written by Philip Wilkinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and legends are deeply rooted in the world's literature, language, and history. But what does the phrase "Achilles heel" refer to, and what did Oedipus or Beowulf actually do? Gather round for enthralling stories of gods, danger, heroes, and great cosmic events. With over 1000 illustrations, Myths and Legends explores epic global stories, bringing to life the greatest creation myths of all time, such as that of Brahma and Vishnu, and the Inca god Viracocha. It brings you monstrous creatures and terrifying people including the witch Baba Yaga, as well as epic adventures such as King Arthur's search for the Holy Grail and Jason's capture of the Golden Fleece. It tells how the Masai first got their cattle, or how the Greeks discovered fire and shares legends that explain death, including the story of the Maori god Tane. Originally passed down from one generation to the next, these sagas from all over the world are part of our heritage and touch our hearts. Myths and Legends provides context and meaning to each one, and is a treasure trove for everyone interested in their cultural legacy.

The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

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Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423090
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell written by Thomas N. Corns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.

"A Certain Text"

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Author : Thomas Clayton
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137897
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book "A Certain Text" written by Thomas Clayton and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes its title from 'Romeo and Juliet' (4.1.21.) when, meeting Paris in Friar Lawrence's cell, Juliet muses, What must be shall be, and the Friar completes her line with, That's a certain text. Where text means a received truth both Friar Lawrence and Clayton are interested skeptics. This essays gathered here reflect this attitude, questioning received ideas about the activities to which Clayton has devoted his professional life- literary editing and the close reading of literary works.

The Oxford Handbook of Heracles

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Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190650982
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Heracles written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first half of the volume is devoted to the exposition of the ancient evidence, literary and iconographic, for the traditions of Heracles' life and deeds. After a chapter each on the hero's childhood and his madness, the canonical cause of his Twelve Labors, each of the Labors themselves receives detailed treatment in a dedicated chapter. The 'Parerga' or 'Side-Labors' are then treated in a similar level of detail in seven further chapters. In the second half of the book the Heracles tradition is analysed from a range of thematic perspectives. After consideration of the contrasting projections of the figure across the major literary genres, Epic, Tragedy, Comedy, Philosophy, and in the iconographic register, a number of his myth-cycle's diverse fils rouges are pursued: Heracles' fashioning as a folkloric quest-hero; his relationships with the two great goddesses, the Hera that persecutes him and the Athena that protects him; and the rationalisation and allegorisation of his cycle's constituent myths. The ways are investigated in which Greek communities and indeed Alexander the Great exploited the figure both in the fashioning of their own identities and for political advantage. The cult of Heracles is considered in its Greek manifestation, in its syncretism with that of the Phoenician Melqart, and in its presence at Rome, the last study leading into discussion of the use made of Heracles by the Roman emperors themselves and then by early Christian writers. A final chapter offers an authoritative perspective on the limitless subject of Heracles' reception in the western tradition"--

The English Mannerist Poets and the Visual Arts

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Author : L. E. Semler
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637593
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The English Mannerist Poets and the Visual Arts written by L. E. Semler and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, L.E. Semler begins with a comprehensive, historical definition of Mannerism in visual arts from which he derives four key terms that constitute the nucleus of the aesthetic: technical precision, elegance, grazia, and the difficulta:facilita formula. These principles - interwoven with one another and with maniera - are derived from visual arts but are specifically designed to be transferable to any medium. The rest of the book situates the English poets in relation to the visual arts - including painting, limning, gold- and silversmithery, architecture, and garden design - and discusses their verse in relation to the key Mannerist principles.

Drakon

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Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199557322
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Drakon written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the dragon or the supernatural serpent in Graeco-Roman myth and religion. It incorporates analyses, with comprehensive accounts of the rich literary and iconographic sources, for the principal dragons of myth, and discusses matters of cult and the paradoxical association of dragons and serpents with the most benign of deities.

Curiosities and Texts

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Author : Marjorie Swann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203178
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Curiosities and Texts written by Marjorie Swann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.

Perseus

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Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134090617
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Perseus written by Daniel Ogden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With the help of Hermes and Athena he slew the Gorgon Medusa, conquered a mighty sea monster and won the hand of the beautiful princess Andromeda. This volume tells of his enduring myth, it's rendering in art and literature, and its reception through the Roman period and up to the modern day. This is the first scholarly book in English devoted to Perseus' myth in its entirety for over a century. With information drawn from a diverse range of sources as well as varied illustrations, the volume illuminates the importance of the Perseus myth throughout the ages.

International Law Reports

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Author : E. Lauterpacht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521464185
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book International Law Reports written by E. Lauterpacht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of courts and arbitrators, as well as judgements of national courts.

Chaucer-Burns

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Author : William Stebbing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031625018X
Total Pages : 5216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Bartlett's Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 5216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.

The Milton Anthology

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Author : Edward Arber
Publisher : London ; New York : H. Frowde
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Milton Anthology written by Edward Arber and published by London ; New York : H. Frowde. This book was released on 1899 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: