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Olympian Exiles

Author : Cassie Day
Publisher : Cassie Day
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1368 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olympian Exiles written by Cassie Day and published by Cassie Day. This book was released on 2023-01-14 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the epic world of Prasinos. Gods, heroes, and monsters roam the land. Danger, adventure, and romance await. And every bargain comes with a steep price... Three full-length novels retelling Greek myths from the perspective of mythical monsters. Over 1,100 pages of romantic young-new adult fantasy! Includes the complete trilogy: Siren Daughter, Gorgon Born, and Chimera Child. A journey for immortality. Agathe is a siren, a creature once known for their enthralling songs. But her ancestors’ exile locks her and her family deep beneath the Akri Sea. She resigns herself to an unremarkable life with only her beloved mother for company. Yet when everything she holds dear is stripped away during a bitter winter, she embarks on a deadly quest. One for the most precious gift in all the realms: immortality. A quest for revenge. Chloe is a gorgon, the daughter of legendary Medusa—once known for venomous snake hair and a stone-turning gaze. With her mother murdered and buried, life on an isolated island with two cruel aunts feels anything but legendary. But when the truth of who her father is and what he’s done comes to light, she leaves behind all she knows. Anything to seek revenge against those who did her mother harm: god-king Zeus and his brother Poseidon. A fight for freedom. Melina is a chimera, a fire-breathing creature able to adapt to her environment. But the secrets within her goddess-queen mother’s court render her caged and considered nothing more than a beast to control. When a young blacksmith seals another collar around her neck, a dangerous chain of events unfolds, leading to her exile from the court she called home and the mother she doesn’t know how to live without. A mother who lied about everything—including the details of who Mel is and who actually birthed her.

Ovid before Exile

Author : Patricia Johnson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299224031
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Ovid before Exile written by Patricia Johnson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic Metamorphoses, Ovid’s most renowned work, has regained its stature among the masterpieces of great poets such as Vergil, Horace, and Tibullus. Yet its irreverent tone and bold defiance of generic boundaries set the Metamorphoses apart from its contemporaries. Ovid before Exile provides a compelling new reading of the epic, examining the text in light of circumstances surrounding the final years of Augustus’ reign, a time when a culture of poets and patrons was in sharp decline, discouraging and even endangering artistic freedom of expression. Patricia J. Johnson demonstrates how the production of art—specifically poetry—changed dramatically during the reign of Augustus. By Ovid’s final decade in Rome, the atmosphere for artistic work had transformed, leading to a drop in poetic production of quality. Johnson shows how Ovid, in the episodes of artistic creation that anchor his Metamorphoses, responded to his audience and commented on artistic circumstances in Rome.

Foiled

Author : Milly Mogulof
Publisher : RDR Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571430922
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Foiled written by Milly Mogulof and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably history's most famous woman fencer, named as one of the top 100 athletes of the century by Sports Illustrated, Helene Mayer won the gold for Germany in the 1928 Berlin Olympics. Eight years later, with America poised to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics over anti-Semitism, the Nazis brought Mayer home from self-imposed exile in California to be the token Jew on their team. This marvelous book is the story of a beautiful and talented young woman who tries to win back her citizenship by fencing for the Third Reich. The thought-provoking saga of the central figure in the 20th century's most dramatic sports controversy.

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West

Author : Nigel James Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190209097
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West written by Nigel James Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.

Exiles Traveling

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042028769
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Exiles Traveling written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms “exile” and “travel” still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.

Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1512600385
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000 written by Peter Burke and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses whether exiles and expatriates have made a distinctive contribution to knowledge"--Provided by the publisher.

Ovid in Exile

Author : Matthew McGowan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047424077
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Ovid in Exile written by Matthew McGowan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto and to create for himself a place of intellectual refuge. From there he was able to reflect out loud on how and why his own art had been legally banned and left for dead on the margins of the empire. As the last of the Augustan poets, Ovid was in a unique position to take stock of his own standing and of the place of poetry itself in a culture deeply restructured during the lengthy rule of Rome's first emperor. This study considers exile in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto as a place of genuine suffering and a metaphor for poetry's marginalization from the imperial city. It analyzes, in particular, Ovid's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry.

The Poems of Exile

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520242609
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Exile written by Ovid and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is no small achievement. For the language-lover the translation provides elegant, flowing English verse, for the classicist it conveys close approximation to the Latin meaning coupled with a sense of the movement and rhythmic variety of Ovid's language"—Geraldine Herbert-Brown, editor of Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillennium "This book fills a gap. There is no similar annotated English translation of Ovid's exile poetry. Thoroughly grounded in Ovidian scholarship, Green's introduction and notes are helpful and informative. The translation is accurate, idiomatic, and lively, closely imitating the Latin elegiac couplet and capturing Ovid's changing moods."—Karl Galinsky, author of Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects

Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy

Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826861
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy written by Sara Forsdyke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its role as a context for the ongoing negotiation of democratic values. The first part of the book demonstrates the strong connection between exile and political power in archaic Greece. In Athens and elsewhere, elites seized power by expelling their rivals. Violent intra-elite conflict of this sort was a highly unstable form of "politics that was only temporarily checked by various attempts at elite self-regulation. A lasting solution to the problem of exile was found only in the late sixth century during a particularly intense series of violent expulsions. At this time, the Athenian people rose up and seized simultaneously control over decisions of exile and political power. The close connection between political power and the power of expulsion explains why ostracism was a central part of the democratic reforms. Forsdyke shows how ostracism functioned both as a symbol of democratic power and as a key term in the ideological justification of democratic rule. Crucial to the author's interpretation is the recognition that ostracism was both a remarkably mild form of exile and one that was infrequently used. By analyzing the representation of exile in Athenian imperial decrees, in the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and in tragedy and oratory, Forsdyke shows how exile served as an important term in the debate about the best form of rule.

Odes for Victorious Athletes

Author : Pindar
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899176
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Odes for Victorious Athletes written by Pindar and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs. The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as entertainment. In their essential effect, these songs transform a physical triumph, as experienced by one man, into a sense of elation shared by his peers—men who have gathered to dine and to drink. Athletic odes were presented by small bands of dancing singers, influencing the audience with music and dance as well as by words. These translations respect the form of the originals, keeping the stanzas that shaped repeating melodies and danced figures and using rhythms meant to suggest performers in motion. Pindar's songs were meant to entertain and exalt groups of drinking men. These translations revive the confident excitement of their original performances.

Hero and Exile

Author : Greenfield,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826443400
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Hero and Exile written by Greenfield, and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, bibliographer and literary critic, Stanley Brian Greenfield, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, one of the founders of the annual Anglo-Saxon England and of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, died in 1987. He wrote primarily on Anglo-Saxon topics as well as later English poetry. He deeply explored the Old English poetic corpus, pointing out important meanings and qualities in insightful and sensitive readings. Hero and Exile brings together some of his most important essays, divided into three sections - Beowulfian Studies, The Old English Elegies and The Theme of Exile - attesting to his long and fruitful engagement with Old English literature.

The Mind in Exile

Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232571
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Mind in Exile written by Stanley Corngold and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the greatest living man of letters,” Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for nearly three years, he was stunningly productive as a novelist, university lecturer, and public intellectual. In The Mind in Exile, Stanley Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann’s journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to ardent social democrat. On the knife-edge of an exile that would last fully fourteen years, Mann declared, “Where I am, there is Germany. I carry my German culture in me.” At Princeton, Mann nourished an authentic German culture that he furiously observed was “going to the dogs” under Hitler. Here, he wrote great chunks of his brilliant novel Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns); the witty novella The Transposed Heads; and the first chapters of Joseph the Provider, which contain intimations of his beloved President Roosevelt’s economic policies. Each of Mann’s university lectures—on Goethe, Freud, Wagner—attracted nearly 1,000 auditors, among them the baseball catcher, linguist, and O.S.S. spy Moe Berg. Meanwhile, Mann had the determination to travel throughout the United States, where he delivered countless speeches in defense of democratic values. In Princeton, Mann exercised his “stupendous capacity for work” in a circle of friends, all highly accomplished exiles, including Hermann Broch, Albert Einstein, and Erich Kahler. The Mind in Exile portrays this luminous constellation of intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.

Stasis and Stability

Author : Benjamin David Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198729774
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Stasis and Stability written by Benjamin David Gray and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continued vitality of the Greek city (polis) in the centuries after the Peloponnesian War has now been richly demonstrated by historians. But how does that vitality relate to the prominence in the same period of both civic unrest, or stasis, and utopian political thinking? In order to address this question, this volume uses exile and exiles as a lens for investigating the later Classical and Hellenistic polis and the political ideas which shaped it. The issue of the political and ethical status of exile and exiles necessarily raised fundamental questions about civic inclusion and exclusion, closely bound up with basic ideas of justice, virtue, and community. This makes it possible to interpret the varied evidence for exile as a guide to the complex, dynamic ecology of political ideas within the later Classical and post-Classical civic world, including both taken-for-granted political assumptions and more developed political ideologies and philosophies. In the course of its investigation, Stasis and Stability discusses the rich evidence for varied forms of expulsion and reintegration of citizens of poleis across the Mediterranean, analysing the full range of relevant civic institutions, practices, and debates. It also investigates civic activity and ideology outside the polis, addressing the complex and diverse political organization, agitation, and ideas of exiles themselves. Using this evidence, the volume develops an argument that the rich Greek civic political culture and political thought of this period were marked by significant extremes, contradictions, and indeterminacies in ideas about the relative value of solidarity and reciprocity, self-sacrifice and self-interest. Those features of the polis' political culture and political thought are integral to explaining both civic unrest and civic flourishing, both stasis and stability.

Greek Colonisation

Author : G.R. Tsetskhladze
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904744244X
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Greek Colonisation written by G.R. Tsetskhladze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3-volume handbook is dedicated to one of the most significant processes in the history of ancient Greece - colonisation. Greeks set up colonies and other settlements in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north-east. In this colonial world Greek and local societies met, influenced and enriched each other. The handbook brings together historians and archaeologists, all world experts, to present the latest ideas and evidence. The principal aim is to present and update the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. The work is dedicated to the late Prof. A.J. Graham. This second volume contains chapters on Central Greece on the eve of the colonisation movement, foundation stories, colonisation in the Classical period, the Adriatic, the northern Aegean, Libya and Cyprus.

Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece

Author : Carol Dougherty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352440
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece written by Carol Dougherty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays by archaeologists, historians, and literary scholars in a comprehensive examination of the Greek archaic age. A time of dramatic and revolutionary change when many of the institutions and thought patterns that would shape Greek culture evolved, this period has become the object of renewed scholarly interest in recent years. Yet it has resisted reconstruction, largely because its documentation is less complete than that of the classical period. In order to read the text of archaic Greece, the contributors here apply new methods--including anthropology, literary theory, and cultural history--to central issues, among them the interpretation of ritual, the origins of hero cult and its relation to politics, the evolving ideologies of colonization and athletic victory, the representation of statesmen and sages, and the serendipitous development of democracy. With their interdisciplinary approaches, the various essays demonstrate the interdependence of politics, religion, and economics in this period; the importance of public performance for negotiating social interaction; and the creative use of the past to structure a changing present. Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece offers a vigorous and coherent response to the scholarly challenges of the archaic period.

The Greek Exile

Author : Christophoros Plato Castanis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Exile written by Christophoros Plato Castanis and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Olympic Games

Author : Judith Swaddling
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292777514
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Olympic Games written by Judith Swaddling and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games. Judith Swaddling traces the mythological and religious origins of the games and describes the events, religious ceremony, and celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. The book also features a large, detailed model of the site of ancient Olympia, where, alongside religious and civic buildings, there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool, and a race course. For this revised edition, three new chapters have been added, covering the diet and medical treatment of athletes; sponsorship, patronage, and propaganda; and revivals of the games. Superbly illustrated with vases, sculpture, and other works of ancient art, and with new views of the site, the new edition of this indispensable account of Ancient Olympia and the games now includes color reproduction for over half the illustrations, as well as many additional pictures.