Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Prometheus Gift
Download Prometheus Gift full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Prometheus Gift ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Download or read book Prometheus written by Carol Dougherty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Dougherty traces a history of the Prometheus myth from its origins in Ancient Greece to its resurgence in the works of the Romantic era and beyond. Prometheus defied Zeus to steal fire for mankind and his story continues to make an appearance in art and literature to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Captive and the Gift by : Bruce Grant
Download or read book The Captive and the Gift written by Bruce Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands. In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders. Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.
Download or read book Prometheus' Gift written by John Sangster and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill’s life went from monotonous to stimulating in just a week. In that short time, two deadly arson fires put Bill’s skill as a fire fighter to work assisting in the investigation. His involvement in these fires wakes up some purposely buried memories of a broken marriage thirty years ago, a heart break that still affects him years later. While helping with the investigation of these fires, the team Bill is on gets side swiped by an unmannered FBI agent, who seizes all of the team’s efforts at solving the crimes. Determined to give his community closure, Bill and the team continue clandestinely to find the culprit. In the meantime, a young man comes to town and is quickly assimilated into the community. The young man, actually a FBI agent in disguise, soon realizes that what his boss told him about the arson fires was not exactly true. Meanwhile the perpetrator of the arson fires follows a strange calling to return to the area of the deadly arson fires. A series of wildland arson fires hits the area, while a beautiful young woman named Diana starts visiting the town’s favorite bar and starts an affair with the young FBI agent. Wanting a spectacular fire to watch from the camera on board a hexcopter drone, the arsonist picks a perfect setting to start a wildfire, but the fire turns deadly and kills three fire fighters. As the young FBI agent, Bill, and a woman police officer start to zero in on the elusive arsonist, the town becomes embroiled in a deadly battle to save the life of Diana. The town’s people, providing help to the outnumbered law enforcement officers, beat back numerous attempts on Diana’s life by hitmen from Diana’s family. In the midst of fighting, Bill not only becomes a hero twice over, but he learns what happened to his wife and discovers who the arsonist really is.
Download or read book Prometheus' Gift written by Steve Lafler and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prometheus and the Story of Fire by : I. M. Richardson
Download or read book Prometheus and the Story of Fire written by I. M. Richardson and published by Troll Communications Llc. This book was released on 1983 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how the Titan Prometheus created people, gave them fire he stole from the gods, and was horribly punished by Zeus.
Book Synopsis The Philosophical Stage by : Joshua Billings
Download or read book The Philosophical Stage written by Joshua Billings and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, classicist Joshua Billings considers classical Greek drama as intellectual history. Developing an innovative approach to dramatic form as a mode of philosophical thought, Billings recasts early Greek intellectual history as a conversation across types of discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely-shared conceptual questions. He integrates evidence from tragedy, comedy, and satyr play into the development of early Greek philosophy in order to place poetry at the center of Greek thought. He thus offers a substantially new history and map of classical intellectual culture: drama, on his view, appears as our best source for understanding the thought of the fifth century, while at the same time revealing significant tensions and anxieties in the development of philosophy. At the heart of the book is a novel approach to the philosophical qualities of drama. Though dramatists and their works have been considered philosophical in a variety of ways going back to antiquity, scholarly approaches have consistently taken "literature" and "philosophy" as defined categories, tracing more or less direct connections between one and the other. On the contrary, Billings argues that neither "literature" nor "philosophy" were available as stable categories in the fifth century. Rather he describes the way that drama treats issues that would come to be called philosophical, without relying on assumptions concerning what constitutes philosophical method or literary form. Drama develops a kind of method that allows it to pose and pursue conceptual questions in dramatic form which Billings describes as the "philosophical poetics" of drama"--
Download or read book Prometheus Gift - Book 1 written by and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is no longer the same. Gruesome battles were fought throughout ages. Billions of lives lost and ravaged. All for what? A hidden gift, believed to invoke mankind's future, has been proven immoral. An ancient civilization has fallen to amend it. A sinister mastermind is already on the move. The Master Weapon is brewed at last. A mysterious organization, veiled in great depths, that has been breached and defeated, is striving. A young man with a grim past is destined to rise at the precipice of death. An arduous choice is hurled before him. However, a secretive knowledge has to be uncovered to make the choice. The knowledge of life! But it comes with a heavy price, the price of life itself. Is he willing to pay it? The end is now near... Earth will face its worst nightmares. A nail-biting philosophical thriller that ripples through primitive history, delving into answers to one of the most mysterious questions of all ages: What is the purpose of life?
Book Synopsis The Gift of Prometheus by : Douglas M. Grillo
Download or read book The Gift of Prometheus written by Douglas M. Grillo and published by . This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prometheus and the Gift of Fire by : Rishi Rathi
Download or read book Prometheus and the Gift of Fire written by Rishi Rathi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the extraordinary tale of the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, who defied the mighty Zeus to bestow the divine gift of fire upon humanity. Witness how this audacious act sparks a transformation in the mortal realm, igniting a flame of progress and enlightenment that forever shapes human history. This captivating retelling of the Greek myth explores the power of compassion, bravery, and the enduring bond between gods and mortals in a timeless narrative that will leave readers inspired and enthralled.
Book Synopsis The Captive and the Gift by : Bruce Grant
Download or read book The Captive and the Gift written by Bruce Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders.Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.
Download or read book Prometheus written by Carol Dougherty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comparative approach, including visual material and film, this much-needed book provides an essential introduction to the Promethean myth and locates the nature of this compelling tale's continuing relevance through history, from its origins in ancient Greece, to its appearance in Romantic age works and twentieth-century films.
Book Synopsis Inside Paradise Lost by : David Quint
Download or read book Inside Paradise Lost written by David Quint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint’s comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of Paradise Lost—its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice. Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam’s decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of this Paradise Lost is a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton’s masterpiece, Paradise Lost reveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.
Book Synopsis Mythic Voices by : Michael Starsheen
Download or read book Mythic Voices written by Michael Starsheen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the stories of the Greek Gods and Goddesses from their own unique points of view, allowing their archetypal energies to manifest from within the cultural unconscious of our modern world. These are not stories for children, although told in poetic form. They are intended for an mature audience, who choose to better understand where they've come from and where they are going in this modern world. Western culture is largely based on Greco-Roman archetypes, and these myths speak directly to behaviors that manifest in our modern world. This book is intended for ages 16+.
Download or read book Bound to Act written by Valeria Wagner and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette étude porte sur le motif de l'impossibilité d'agir, récurrent dans la littérature dramatique et philosophique occidentale depuis "Hamlet" à nos jours. Hamlet n'est en effet pas seul à avoir des difficultés à passer à l'acte : il en est de même pour le Faust de Marlowe, le Samson de Milton, le Prométhée de Shelley, et Estragon et Vladimir dans "En attendant Godot". L'analyse de l'inaction de ces personnages éclaire les modèles d'action déployés dans les textes philosophiques en question : certains essais de Donald Davidson, les "Deux traités sur le gouvernement" de Locke, "La naissance de la tragédie" de Nietzsche, "Auteur et héros en activité esthétique" de Bakhtin, "Les investigations philosophiques" de Wittgenstein, les essais sur la guerre du Golfe de Baudrillard et Lyotard. Le théâtre d'Aeschylle et la conception aristotélicienne de l'action permettent d'évaluer les limites introduites par la catégorie du sujet dans le modèle d'action qui prédomine dans la modernité.
Book Synopsis Bernard Evslin's Greek Mythology by : Bernard Evslin
Download or read book Bernard Evslin's Greek Mythology written by Bernard Evslin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods, heroes, and monsters made accessible by “one of the most widely published authors of classical mythology in the world” (The New York Times). With over ten million copies of his books sold worldwide, Bernard Evslin’s modern takes on Greek myths have captured the imaginations of countless readers. Collected here in one volume are nine books of timeless action and adventure surrounding such legendary figures as Zeus and the Olympians; heroes such as Perseus, who slew the hideous Medusa; the epic struggles of the Trojan War; and much, much more . . . This ebook includes Gods, Demigods and Demons; Hercules; Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths; Jason and the Argonauts; Monsters of Greek Mythology Volume One; Monsters of Greek Mythology Volume Two; The Adventures of Ulysses; The Dolphin Rider; and The Trojan War.
Book Synopsis From Protagoras to Aristotle by : Heda Segvic
Download or read book From Protagoras to Aristotle written by Heda Segvic and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new arguments about the nature of Socratic intellectualism and the intellectual influences that shaped Aristotle's ideas. Segvic had been working for some time on a monograph on practical knowledge that would interpret Aristotle's ethical theory as a response to Protagoras. The essays collected here are those on which her reputation rests, including some that were intended to form the backbone of her projected monograph. The papers range from a literary study of Homer's influence on Plato's Protagoras to analytic studies of Aristotle's metaphysics and his ideas about deliberation. Most of the papers reflect directly or indirectly Segvic's idea that both Socrates' and Aristotle's universalism and objectivism in ethics could be traced back to their opposition to Protagorean relativism. The book represents the considerable achievements of one of the most talented scholars of ancient philosophy of her generation.
Book Synopsis Greek Mythology: Tales of the Gods Gr. 7-8 by :
Download or read book Greek Mythology: Tales of the Gods Gr. 7-8 written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
