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The Complete Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195373405
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Euripides written by Euripides and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated mythical figures; and The Phoenician Women, translated by Peter Burian and Brian Swamm, a disturbing interpretation of the fate of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus. These three tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

Penguin Classics

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101578149
Total Pages : 941 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Penguin Classics written by Anonymous and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete Annotated Listing More than 1,500 titles in print Authoritative introductions and notes by leading academics and contemporary authors Up-to-date translations from award-winning translators Readers guides and other resources available online Penguin Classics on air online radio programs

Phoenician Women (Penguin Classics)

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Phoenician Women (Penguin Classics) written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bacchae and Other Plays

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780199540525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Bacchae and Other Plays written by Euripides, and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Lastly, Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, is a thrilling, action-packed Iliad in miniature, dealing with a grisly event in the Trojan War.

The Penguin Classics Book

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0141990937
Total Pages : 1904 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Classics Book written by Henry Eliot and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 1904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year** The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.

Inlets of the Soul

Author : Pierre François
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484949
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Inlets of the Soul written by Pierre François and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship of myth to literature has largely been overshadowed in contemporary theory by perspectives of a linguistic or sociological orientation and by relativist, sometimes negatory, stances on all searches for meaning. This book attempts to show that myth criticism and critical theories of more recent provenance are not irreconcilable. While taking into consideration some of the more influential tenets of structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist and feminist theory, it applies a post-Jungian ('archetypal') approach to illustrating the perennial nature of a particular myth (the Fall of Man) in two main traditions (Mesopotamian and Christian) and in the contemporary novel in English. The discussions of five major novels by William Golding, Patrick White, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Wilson Harris not only serve to expand the mythological insights achieved in the first part of the book; they also suggest the incommensurability of imaginal, novelistic life with mythology's age-old intuitions about the human condition. Myth criticism emerges from this book as an irreplaceable vantage-point from which man's lapsarian predicament can be scrutinized synchronically as archaic wisdom, contemporary anxiety, and post-colonial commitment to the building of a new human city.

A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths

Author : Stephen P. Kershaw
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472107543
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths written by Stephen P. Kershaw and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings of the Trojan heroes. All the familiar narratives are here, along with some less familiar characters and motifs. In addition to the tales, the book explains key issues arising from the narratives, and discusses the myths and their wider relevance. This long-overdue book crystallises three key areas of interest: the nature of the tales; the stories themselves; and how they have and might be interpreted. For the first time, it brings together aspects of Greek mythology only usually available in disparate forms - namely children's books and academic works. There will be much here that is interesting, surprising, and strange as well as familiar. Experts and non-experts, adults, students and schoolchildren alike will gain entertainment and insight from this fascinating and important volume.

Penguin Classics

Author : Penguin (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780147715975
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Penguin Classics written by Penguin (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek Tragedy

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961716
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Aeschylus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.

Six Tragedies

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192807064
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Six Tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths

Author : Jennifer March
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920599
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Classical Myths written by Jennifer March and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figures and events of classical myths underpin our culture and the constellations named after them fill the night sky. Whether it’s the raging Minotaur trapped in the Cretan labyrinth or the twelve labours of Hercules, Aphrodite’s birth from the waves or Zeus visiting Danae as a shower of gold, the mythology of Greece and Rome is full of unforgettable stories. All the stories of the Greek tragedies – Oedipus, Medea, Antigone – are there; all the events of the Trojan wars and of Odysseus and Aeneas’ epic journeys; the founding of Athens and of Rome... These are the strangest tales of love, war, betrayal and heroism ever told and, while brilliantly retelling them, this book shows how they echo through the works of much later writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Camus and Ted Hughes. Full of attractive illustrations and laid out in eighteen clear chapters (the titles include ‘Dangerous Women’ and ‘Heroes’), Dr Jennifer March has written a fascinating guide to the myths of classical civilization that is as readable as a novel.

Three Plays

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961961
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Euripides and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484-406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity, and in their use of the gods as symbols of human nature. The three plays in this collection show his abilities as the sceptical questioner of his age. Alcestis, an early drama, tells the tale of a queen who offers her own life in exchange for that of her husband; cast as a tragedy, it contains passages of satire and comedy. The tragicomedy Iphigenia in Tauris melodramatically reunites the ill-fated children of Agamemnon, while the pure tragedy of Hippolytus shows the fatal impact of Phaedra's unreasoning passion for her chaste stepson. All three plays explore a deep gulf that separates man from woman, and all depict a world dominated by amoral forces beyond human control.

Borges, Buddhism and World Literature

Author : Dominique Jullien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030047172
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Borges, Buddhism and World Literature written by Dominique Jullien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants, Borges’s essays formulated a 'morphological' conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe), whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of a finite number of 'archetypes'. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a powerful political story, setting up a confrontation between power and authority; Borges’s own political predicament is explored against the rich background of truth-telling renouncers. In its poetic variant, the renunciation archetype morphs into stories about art and artists, with renunciation a key requirement of the creative process: the discussion weaves in and out of Borges to highlight modern writers’ debt to asceticism. Ultimately, the enigmatic appeal of the renunciation story aligns it with the open-endedness of modern parables.

Wit's Treasury

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299876
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Wit's Treasury written by Stephen Orgel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners—indeed, the whole national style—through adapting the classics. But how could English literature, art, and culture, become "classical," not only in imitating the ancients, but in the sense subsequently applied to music: "classical" as opposed to popular, as formal, serious, and therefore as good? For several decades in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Stephen Orgel writes, the return to the classics held out the promise of refinement and civility. Poetry was to be modeled on Greek and Roman examples rather than on the great English medieval works, which though admirable, lacked "correctness." More than poetry was at stake, however, and the transition would not be easy. Classical rules seemed the wave of the future, rescuing England from what was seen as the crudeness and the sheer popularity of its native traditions, but advocacy was tempered with a good deal of ambivalence: classical manners and morals were often at variance with Christian principles, and the classicism of the age would need to be deeply revisionist. "Christian humanism" was never untroubled, Orgel writes, always an unstable or even paradoxical amalgam. In Wit's Treasury, one of our foremost interpreters of Renaissance literature and culture charts how this ambivalence yielded the rich creative tension out of which emerged an unprecedented flowering of drama, lyric, and the arts. Orgel has here written a book that will appeal to anyone interested in English Renaissance art and literature, and particularly in the cultural ferment that produced Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Jonson, and Milton.

Woman Ruler

Author : Elin Sand
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475902565
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Woman Ruler written by Elin Sand and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-22 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: please find in Description.doc

The Courage of Truth

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250009103
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Courage of Truth written by Michel Foucault and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered in a series of lectures from 1970 to 1984 at the Collège de France. Here, Foucault continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditions based on courage and conviction. His death, on June 25th, 1984, tempts us to detect the philosophical testament in these lectures, especially in view of the prominence they give to the themes of life and death.

Phoenician Secrets

Author : Sanford Holst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983327905
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Phoenician Secrets written by Sanford Holst and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious Phoenicians and the ancient Mediterranean are experienced in richer detail than ever before in this well researched and intriguing narrative. Instead of seeing darkness in the years before classical Greece, we now see glimmers of light revealing a continuous parade of remarkable societies, great leaders and epic events. Drawing back the veil of secrecy surrounding the Phoenicians uncovers new glimpses of Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and people of other societies. Sanford Holst is one of the world's leading authorities on the Phoenicians, and appears in the BBC series Ancient Worlds. Elected a member of the prestigious Royal Historical Society for his work in this field, Holst has presented academic papers on the Phoenicians at universities around the world. Working with respected experts, often on-site, he has added photos, sources, and five years of additional research to his previous work. This is a walk through the idyllic ancient Mediterranean you will long remember.