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Author : Francesca Zardini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos written by Francesca Zardini and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Fontenrose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312767
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Python written by Joseph Fontenrose and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1959.
Author : Emma Stafford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136519270
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Herakles written by Emma Stafford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, concerning his life and death as well as his battles with myriad monsters and other opponents. In literature, he appears in our earliest Greek epic and lyric poetry, is reinvented for the tragic and comic stage, and later finds his way into such unlikely areas as philosophical writing and love poetry. In art, his exploits are amongst the earliest identifiable mythological scenes, and his easily-recognisable figure with lionskin and club was a familiar sight throughout antiquity in sculpture, vase-painting and other media. He was held up as an ancestor and role-model for both Greek and Roman rulers, and widely worshipped as a god, his unusual status as a hero-god being reinforced by the story of his apotheosis. Often referred to by his Roman name Hercules, he has continued to fascinate writers and artists right up to the present day. In Herakles, Emma Stafford has successfully tackled the ‘Herculean task’ of surveying both the ancient sources and the extensive modern scholarship in order to present a hugely accessible account of this important mythical figure. Covering both Greek and Roman material, the book highlights areas of consensus and dissent, indicating avenues for further study on both details and broader issues. Easy to read, Herakles is perfectly suited to students of classics and related disciplines, and of interest to anyone looking for an insight into ancient Greece’s most popular hero.
Author : George W. Cox
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Mythology of the Aryan Nations written by George W. Cox and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book The Mythology of the Arian Nations by George W. Cox written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book The Mythology of the Aryan Nations in Two Volumes by George W. Cox written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark William Padilla
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Myths of Herakles in Ancient Greece written by Mark William Padilla and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myths of Herakles in Ancient Greece surveys the rich legacy of Herakles's representations during the Archaic and Early Classical periods and joins to this survey a scholarly apparatus that summarizes and refers to a good portion of the work completed on the meanings and descriptions of these manifestations. Organized into complementing 'synchronic' and 'diachronic' perspectives, the Greeks' most popular but also most complex 'hero-god' emerges to the reader in a straightforwardly written appreciation.
Author : Emma Aston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1835536824
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Blessed Thessaly written by Emma Aston and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thessaly was a region of great importance in the ancient Greek world, possessing both agricultural abundance and a strategic position between north and south. It presents historians with the challenge of seeing beyond traditional stereotypes (wealth and witches, horses and hospitality) that have coloured perceptions of its people from antiquity to the present day. It also presents a complex and illuminating interaction between polis and ethnos identity. In daily life, most Thessalians primarily operated within, and identified with, their specific polis; at the same time, the regional dimension – being Thessalian – was rarely out of sight for long. It manifested itself in stories told, in deities worshipped, in modes of political co-operation, in language, rituals, sites and objects. Chapter by chapter, this book follows the emergence, development and adaptation of Thessalian regional identity from the Archaic period to the early second century BC. In so doing, rather than rejecting ancient stereotypes as a mere inconvenience for the historian, it considers the constant dialogue between Thessalian self-presentation and depictions of the Thessalian character by other Greeks. It also confronts some of the prejudices and assumptions still influencing modern approaches to studying the region. All in all, the reader is invited to see Thessaly not as a region of marginal significance in Greek history, but as occupying a central role in many aspects of ancient cultural and political discourse.
Author : T. H. Carpenter
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500776059
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Art and Myth in Ancient Greece written by T. H. Carpenter and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or offer alternative, unfamiliar tellings. In some cases visual art provides our only evidence, as there is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of such important stories as the Fall of Troy, or Theseus and the Minotaur. T. H. Carpenters book is the first comprehensive, scholarly yet succinct survey of myth as it appears in Greek art. Copiously illustrated, it is an essential reference work for everybody interested in the art, drama, poetry or religion of ancient Greece. With this handbook as a guide, readers will be able to identify scenes from myth across the full breadth of archaic and classical Greek art.
Author : Stephen P. Kershaw
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472107543
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
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.
Author : George W. Cox
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846052094
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Mythodology of The Aryan Nations written by George W. Cox and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Author : Jenny March
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920599
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Classical Myths written by Jenny March and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 624 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.
Author : Ken Dowden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118785169
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Greek Mythology written by Ken Dowden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts Includes coverage of Greek myth’s intersection with history, philosophy and religion Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece
Author : Clemente Marconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521857970
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World written by Clemente Marconi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Robert L. Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198147414
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Early Greek Mythography written by Robert L. Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 is a detailed commentary on the texts of Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1, a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this genre from the late 6th to early 4th centuries BC. Volume 2 provides a mythological commentary of the original works, as well as a philological commentary on separate authors.
Author : Christa Davis Acampora
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226821013
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Contesting Nietzsche written by Christa Davis Acampora and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche’s philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche. Though existence—viewed through the lens of Nietzsche’s agon—is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche recognized as the agon’s generative benefits. It imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche’s elaborations of agonism—his remarks on types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in which either may thrive or deteriorate—she demonstrates how much the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession catalyzed so many diverse interests, Contesting Nietzsche sheds fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher’s most difficult and paradoxical ideas.
Author : New Orleans Museum of Art
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art, Myth, and Culture written by New Orleans Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
