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Author : Desmond Cory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333575550
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (755 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Zeus written by Desmond Cory and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pan Macmillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330326049
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Mask of Zeus written by Pan Macmillan and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexa Piqueux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192660330
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE written by Alexa Piqueux and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various connections between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily (the so-called 'phlyax vases'). After introducing comic texts and comedy-related vase-paintings in the regional contexts, The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE considers the generic features of the comic body, characterized as it is by a specific ugliness and a constant motion. It also explores how costumes —masks, padding, phallus, clothing, accessories— and gestures contribute to the characters' visual identity in relation with speech : it analyzes the cultural, social, aesthetic, and theatrical conventions by which spectators decipher the body. This study thus leads to a re-examination of the modalities of comic mimesis, in particular when addressing sexual codes in cross-dressing scenes which reveal the artifice of the fictional body. It also sheds light on how comic poets make use of the scenic or imaginary representations of the bodies of those who are targets of political, social, or intellectual satire. There is a particular emphasis on body movements, where the book not only deals with body language and the dramatic function of comic gesture, but also with how words confer a kind of poetic and unreal motion to the body.
Author : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108841031
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Hera of Zeus written by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinks the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the goddess Hera in her complex relationship to Zeus.
Author : Franz von Reber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Ancient Art written by Franz von Reber and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Copland Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Casts from the Antique in the South Kensington Museum written by Walter Copland Perry and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296298
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-06-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarry - Garcia Lorca - Satre - Camus - Beckett - Ritual theatre and Jean Genet - Fringe theatre in Britain__
Author : Mary Renault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553228830
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (288 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Apollo written by Mary Renault and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Celestial Duck
Publisher : Celestial Duck
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Celestials Prison: Envoy of the Damned written by Celestial Duck and published by Celestial Duck. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Trigger warning: Harsh Language, Abuse, Slavery, Excessive Violence, Injustice) The Celestial is a symbol of the divine, a pillar stretching high into the heavens. It is worshipped for the blessings it brought upon the world; extraordinary power, revolutionary tools, and beings beyond understanding. Bearing its power will not only change your fate, but the fate of the world. Grelt has existed within a struggle for power for over a century. A war between Angels and Demons ravaged the land, but only ended with the formation of the hybrid alliance between the angels, non-unified, and Hirians. The non-unified race did not receive the divine gifts of the Celestial, they were not worthy. As beings who were deemed unworthy by the great Celestial, they have no choice but to bow before the hybrids alliance. Jack Eldritch It has been a week since the execution of Jacks parents, and he has taken their place as a miner in the small non-unified town of Logos. He is beginning to feel the despair living the rest of his life under the hybrid alliance, and seeks to change the world he was born into.
Author : Kathleen A. Burt
Publisher : Genoa House
ISBN 13 : 1926975081
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Mask written by Kathleen A. Burt and published by Genoa House. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Combined Edition) Original 2 books combined into a large page edition! Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign Parts 1 & 2 by Katheen Burt “Beyond the Mask will speak deeply to many–to astrologers and lovers of astrology at every level, archetypally minded people, depth psychologists and seekers from many walks of life.” –Monika Wikman Ph.D., Jungian Analyst and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness Well known and respected internationally for her ground breaking work in Archetypes of the Zodiac, Kathleen Burt now offers us a phenomenal distillation of her life work in: Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign – Part 1 & Part 2. Midlife urgings bring forth cycles of death and rebirth. Antiquated identities and roles must die, old ‘masks’ must be pealed away before we can discover a new path in life. Kathleen Burt addresses specifically how the twelve rising sign patterns guide us into new life and fresh experiences. With the keen eye of an astrologer examining the biography of creative writers and inspired people, Kathleen Burt brings a depth of understanding to the Rising Sign. This unique volume of wisdom offers decades of scholarly study and practical experience in esoteric astrology, psychology, mythology, and biography and examines the underlying archetypal patterns inherent in our lives.
Author : Edwin Amenta
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226016684
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Professor Baseball written by Edwin Amenta and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens every summer: packs of beer-bellied men with gloves and aluminum bats, putting their middle-aged bodies to the test on the softball diamond. For some, this yearly ritual is driven by a simple desire to enjoy a good ballgame; for others, it’s a way to forge friendships—and rivalries. But for one short, wild-haired, bespectacled professor, playing softball in New York’s Central Park means a whole lot more. It's one last chance to heal the nagging wounds of Little League trauma before the rust of decline and the relentless responsibilities of fatherhood set in. Professor Baseball is the coming-of-middle-age story of New York University professor and Little League benchwarmer Edwin Amenta. As rookie manager of the Performing Arts Softball League’s doormat Sharkeys, he reverses softball’s usual brawn-over-brains formula. He coaxes his skeptical teammates to follow his sabermetric and sociological approach, based equally on Bill James and Max Weber, which in the heady days of early success he dubs “Eddy Ball.” But Amenta soon learns that his teammates’ attachments to favorite positions and time-honored (if ineffective) strategies are hard to break—especially when the team begins losing. And though he rejects the baseball-as-life metaphor, life keeps intruding on his softball season. Amenta here comes to grips with the humiliation of assisted reproduction, suffers mysterious ailments, and finds himself lingering at the sponsor’s bar, while his partner, a beautiful but baseball-challenged professor, second-guesses his book in the making. Can he turn his team—and his life—around? Packed with colorful personalities, dramatic games, and the bustle of New York life, Professor Baseball will charm anyone who has ever root, root, rooted for the underdog.
Author : Paul Zanker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520310012
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Socrates written by Paul Zanker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials, including Greco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, coupled with artistic renderings, Paul Zanker forges the first comprehensive history of the visual representation of Greek and Roman intellectuals. He takes the reader from the earliest visual images of Socrates and Plato to the figures of Christ, the Apostles, and contemporaneous pagan and civic dignitaries. Through his interpretations of the postures, gestures, facial expressions, and stylistic changes of particular pieces, we come to know these great poets and philosophers through all of their various personas—the prophetic wise man, the virtuous democratic citizen, or the self-absorbed bon vivant. Zanker's analysis of how the iconography of influential thinkers and writers changed demonstrates the rise and fall of trends and the movement of schools of thought and belief, each successively embodying the most valued characteristics of the period and culture. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Author : Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292749732
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Masks of Tragedy written by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What matters about a play is not the extent to which it is like any other play, but the way in which it is different," writes Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. "This is, I suggest, how the ancient audiences received the performances.... My purpose, then, in writing these essays is twofold: ... to devote enough space to the discussion of each play to allow its special tone and texture to emerge without hindrance and at leisure ... and to include in one collection analyses of plays so different from one another that the accent will come to rest on the variety of the tragic experience rather than on any one narrowly defined norm." Greek tragedy is a vehicle for many different ideas and many different intentions. From the wealth of material that has come down to us the author has chosen six plays for analysis. He reminds us that the plays were written to be seen and heard, and only secondarily to be studied. The listeners expected each play to have a specific objective, and to exhibit its own mood. These the author attempts to recover for us, by listening to what each play, in its own right, has to say. His principal concern is with the tragic diction and the tragic ideas, designed to release certain massive responses in the large theater-going group of ancient Athens. In exploring the characters and the situations of the plays he has chosen, the author transports his reader to the world of fifth-century B.C. Greece, and establishes the relevance of that world to our own experience. The essays are not introductory in nature. No space is given, for instance, to basic information about the playwrights, the history of Greek drama, or the special features of the Attic stage. Yet the book addresses itself to classicists and nonclassicists alike. The outgrowth of a series of lectures to nonspecialists, its particular appeal is to students of literature and the history of Western thought. Parallels are drawn between the writings of the philosophers and the tragedies, and attention is paid to certain popular Greek beliefs that colored the tragic formulations. Ultimately, however, the approach is not historical but critical; it is the author's intention to demonstrate the beauty and the craftsmanship of the plays under discussion.
Author : Mary Renault
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 140552619X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Apollo written by Mary Renault and published by Virago. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theatre's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the centre of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two unleashes all the pent-up violence in the city.
Author : Jean-Philippe Fontanille
Publisher : Israel Numismatic Society
ISBN 13 : 9657849004
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Yehud Coinage written by Jean-Philippe Fontanille and published by Israel Numismatic Society. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a die study of the provincial silver coinage of Judah in the late Persian, Macedonian, and early Hellenistic periods. It offers correct descriptions of the coins, their designs, and their inscriptions; enumerates the obverse and reverse dies identified for each of the 44 recorded types; and explains the probable sequence of the issues as deduced from iconographic associations and die links. The iconography of the coin types is examined in depth, with comparisons to motifs in Greek, Persian, and ancient Near Eastern art, including other local coinages and sources in Judahite material culture. The monograph also analyzes data relating to the metrology, metal content, and circulation of the coinage. Overall, the study attempts to place the Yehud coinage in its historical context and to define its role in the economy of the ancient province of Judah.
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Greece written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book History of Greece, and of the Greek People written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
