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Laestrygonians

Author : Don Nigro
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573628825
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Laestrygonians written by Don Nigro and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent film starlet Mary Margaret is alone in her Hollywood bungalow, about to kill herself. A former Shakespearean stage actor, now a drunken silent movie leading man with a bad reputation, calls on her and tries to convince her to face life. In the course of their hilarious conflict, images of the actor's past emerge. His efforts to help Mary Margaret live force him to deal with his own demons and find a way to cope with the terrible secret that eats away at him like the cannibal Laestrygonians in Homer's Odyssey. Funny and rich in character and language, this powerful and unusual love story, part of the Pendragon series of plays, is rich with great audition monologues and scenes. Don Nigro's followers will recognize some of the characters from Chronicles, Anima Mundi, Beast with Two Backs, Autumn Leaves and Dramatis Personae--all plays from his series Pendragon Plays

The Odyssey

Author : Homer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312866690
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-11-17 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "a seamless blend of scholarship and storytelling" ("Kirkus Reviews"), Eickhoff presents a new translation of Homer's masterpiece.

The Epic Structure of Space 1999

Author : John K. Balor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387360086
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Epic Structure of Space 1999 written by John K. Balor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains transcripts from Online Alpha discussions where the epic and narrative structure of SPACE 1999 is being discussed by comparing episodes with themes, characters and elements of plot from the Homeric Odyssey and Lewis Carroll's stories about Alice. The discussion is motivated by questions raised in the scholarly literature and earlier Online Alpha debates about how to make sense of SPACE 1999 from the viewpoint of critical theory. The book has been developed on an idealistic basis. It is sold at the lowest price the publisher was willing to accept. A free e-book version can be downloaded at www.lulu.com.

Odyssey: Book X (Classic Reprint)

Author : Homer Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780365854142
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey: Book X (Classic Reprint) written by Homer Homer and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey

Author : Irene J. F. de Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521464789
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (647 download)

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Book Synopsis A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey by : Irene J. F. de Jong

Download or read book A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey written by Irene J. F. de Jong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-22 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive commentaries on the Homeric texts abound, but this commentary concentrates on one major aspect of the Odyssey--its narrative art. The role of narrator and narratees, methods of characterization and scenery description, and the development of the plot are discussed. The study aims to enhance our understanding of this masterpiece of European literature. All Greek references are translated and technical terms are explained in a glossary. It is directed at students and scholars of Greek literature and comparative literature.

The Raft of Odysseus

Author : Carol Dougherty
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195130367
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Raft of Odysseus written by Carol Dougherty and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raft of Odysseus looks at the fascinating intersection of traditional myth with an enthnographically-viewed Homeric world. Carol Dougherty argues that the resourcefulness of Odysseus as an adventurer on perilous seas served as an example to Homer's society which also had to adjust in inventive ways to turbulent conditions. The fantastic adventures of Odysseus act as a prism for the experiences of Homer's own listeners--traders, seafarers, storytellers, soldiers--and give us a glimpse into their own world of hopes and fears, 500 years after the Iliadic events were supposed to have happened.

A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey

Author : Alfred Heubeck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198721444
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey written by Alfred Heubeck and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three volume commentary also includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey, its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text.

Homer: Odyssey Books XIX and XX

Author : Homer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521347600
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Homer: Odyssey Books XIX and XX written by Homer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general survey of the Odyssey, together with comment on the action, characterisation and style of books XIX and XX.

Classical Mythology & More

Author : Marianthe Colakis
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610411404
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Classical Mythology & More written by Marianthe Colakis and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as an introduction to classical mythology for middle and high-school students, presents retellings of favorite myths, sidebar summaries, and review exercises with the answers at the back of the book.

Reading Epic

Author : Peter Toohey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113495218X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Reading Epic written by Peter Toohey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.

Fugitives of Chaos

Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765353870
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Fugitives of Chaos written by John C. Wright and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Wright established himself at the forefront of contemporary fantasy with Orphans of Chaos, which launched a new epic adventure. Wright's new fantasy, continuing in Fugitives of Chaos, is about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings: pagan gods, fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls; Colin is psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe, and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. They must learn to control their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. Something very important must be at stake in their imprisonment.

The Renewal of Epic

Author : V. Knight
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004329773
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Renewal of Epic written by V. Knight and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renewal of Epic considers various modes of allusion to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius, dealing not only with similarities in phraseology but also with thematic and structural resemblances. After an introduction, two chapters discuss Apollonian techniques in treating repeated Homeric scenes: sacrifice, shipwreck, boxing and battle. The central section of the work considers the multiple links between the adventures of the Argonauts and Odysseus' wanderings. A final chapter explores Apollonius' innovative treatment of the divine, both generally and in particular scenes. The work shows convincingly that the Argonautica reproduces many of the patterns which have been found in the Iliad and Odyssey. It demonstrates the presence of allusion at every level in the poem, linking it to its predecesors and acting as an essential interpretative aid to the reader.

Homer's Secret Odyssey

Author : Kenneth Wood
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752463896
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Homer's Secret Odyssey written by Kenneth Wood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI

Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316829820
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI written by Christopher Pelling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415–413 BCE). Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias no match for risk-taking Alcibiades, and at Syracuse, with the statesmanlike Hermocrates confronting the populist Athenagoras. The spectacle of the armada is memorably described; so is the panic at Athens when people fear that acts of sacrilege may be alienating the gods, with Alcibiades himself so implicated that he is soon recalled. The Book ends with Athens seeming poised for victory; that will soon change, and a sister commentary on Book 7 is being published simultaneously. The Introduction discusses the narrative skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the history. Considerable help with the Greek is offered throughout the Commentary.

The Hero and the Goddess

Author : Jean Houston
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835630633
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Hero and the Goddess written by Jean Houston and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All great stories can change our lives, and practically none is more transformational than Homer’s The Odyssey, which had a power so great that it launched Greek civilization and has influenced the West ever since. In this fresh approach to self-realization, human potentials leader Jean Houston provides empowering experiential exercises at every key stage of Homer’s epic to make The Odyssey our own journey. As we set sail with Odysseus, together we endure loss and suffering, the search for the divine Beloved, and the joy of finally arriving home. "Tapping the power of these archetypes," says Houston, "helps us effect healing in areas that have kept us immobilized and anguished. By raising our own tragic dimension to a mythic level, we awaken to a larger, nobler life."

Kubrick's 2001

Author : Leonard F. Wheat
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461660238
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Kubrick's 2001 written by Leonard F. Wheat and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000-06-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed in an international critics poll as one of the ten best films ever made, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has nonetheless baffled critics and filmgoers alike. Its reputation rests largely on its awesome special effects, yet the plot has been considered unfathomable. Critical consensus has been that Kubrick himself probably didn't know the answers. Leonard Wheat's Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory reveals that Kubrick did know the answers. Far from being what it seems to be—a chilling story about space travel—2001 is actually an allegory, hidden by symbols. It is, in fact, a triple allegory, something unprecedented in film or literature. Three allegories—an Odysseus (Homer) allegory, a man-machine symbiosis (Arthur Clarke) allegory, and a Zarathustra (Nietzsche) allegory—are simultaneously concealed and revealed by well over 200 highly imaginative and sometimes devilishly clever symbols. Wheat "decodes" each allegory in rich detail, revealing the symbolism in numerous characters, sequences, and scenes. In bringing Kubrick's secrets to light, Wheat builds a powerful case for his assertion that 2001 is the "grandest motion picture ever filmed."

Harry Mount's Odyssey

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472904699
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Harry Mount's Odyssey written by Harry Mount and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus is a journey round Greece inspired by the heroes, locations and tales of the Odyssey and tracing ancient Greek civilization at its height. Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and one of the most influential in the creation of modern thought. It is the starting block of Western European civilization. In his new Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over the plain where Achilles dragged Hector's body through the dust, and attempts to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, Leander. Whether in Odysseus's kingdom on Ithaca, Homer's birthplace of Chios or the Minotaur's lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey - and ancient Greece - back to life.