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The Wrath of Dionysus

Author : E. Nagrodskai︠a︡
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Wrath of Dionysus written by E. Nagrodskai︠a︡ and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ograve;This novel has everything--love, romance, lust, travel, adventure. Yowee!" --Richard Stites "I would describe Nagrodskaia's work as a cross between the novels of Danielle Steele and Marge Piercy." --Beth Holmgren Evdokia Nagrodskaia's novel The Wrath of Dionysus, with its theme of gender roles and sexual identity, became a sensational and controversial bestseller soon after it hit Russian bookstores in 1910. Long before postmodernism suggested that gender was a social construct rather than a biological absolute, Nagrodskaia's novel put this issue before the growing middle-class Russian audience hungry for popular fiction. The Wrath of Dionysus describes the creative life and romantic entanglements of Tatiana Kuznetsova, an artist who temporarily forsakes her longterm lover and soon-to-be-husband for a sexual affair with an Englishman she meets on a train. Narrated by its heroine, the novel reveals a self-sufficient, emancipated woman wrestling with the issue of how to reconcile an artistic career with the demands of love and, eventually, of motherhood. Male beauty (Tatiana's masterpiece, "The Wrath of Dionysus" is a portrait of her English lover, Edgar Stark) and homosexual love (as a "feminine" man, Stark appeals to the "masculine" Tatiana) figure prominently. A consummate story of the search for personal identity, this novel raises issues as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as they were in Russia when the century began.

The Wrath of Dionysus

Author : Evdokia Nagrodskaia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Wrath of Dionysus written by Evdokia Nagrodskaia and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1910 novel on a liberated woman in Russia, a book which was considered avant garde for its day. The heroine is Tatiana Kuznetsova, an artist torn between art and marriage, who ends up as a single mother with two lovers.

Wrath of Dionysus

Author : Evdokia Nagrodskaia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253221322
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Wrath of Dionysus written by Evdokia Nagrodskaia and published by . This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Translation

Author : Pausanias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bull God

Author : Roberta Gellis
Publisher : Belgrave House
ISBN 13 : 1947812424
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Bull God written by Roberta Gellis and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale of ancient Crete that depicts the curse of the Minotaur from its inception to conclusion, as told from the point of view of Ariadne, daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae. Stepping back into this visceral telling of an ancient myth, Crete and the palace of Knossos become vivid with color and life. The royal family, the gods, and Ariadne and the Minotaur are born fully formed, as the goddess Athena from Zeus’ head. It begins when she’s thirteen, on the day she is given by her parents to the shrine of Dionysus, the god of wine, to become his high priestess. Dionysus hears her Call, after generations of neglect, and he comes to her on the altar, promising to bless the island’s vines and grapes, and ignites desperate emotions in powerful people, jealousy, envy, fear—along with her family’s greed, that turn a god’s wrath against them. Thus, the curse of the Minotaur is born, a deformed babe, a monster, and Ariadne’s half-brother. She is the only person who feels the slightest compassion and tenderness towards the poor creature, caring for it when no one else will. He grows into a huge beast with the mind of a child, and the temper of a god, who will only obey Ariadne. Learning the ways of her god Dionysus, and through him the ancient gods of Olympus, Ariadne becomes a powerful force, capable of controlling her beautiful and kind, yet jealous and wrathful god.

Sources for Alexander the Great

Author : Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521432641
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Sources for Alexander the Great written by Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch and Arrian have contributed more than any other ancient authors to our picture of Alexander the Great, but since they wrote four or more centuries after his death the value of what they said depends upon the sources of information on which they themselves drew. In this 1993 book the attempt is made to define and to evaluate those sources in a detailed study, analysing the historians' works section by section and comparing them with other accounts of the same episodes. This volume completes Professor Hammond's study of the five Alexander-historians begun with Three Historians of Alexander the Great (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and lays a basis for work in this area.

Plots of Epiphany

Author : John B. Weaver
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110915618
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Plots of Epiphany written by John B. Weaver and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past scholarship on the prison-escapes in the Acts of the Apostles has tended to focus on lexical similarities to Euripides' Bacchae, going so far as to argue for direct literary dependence. Moving beyond such explanations, the present study argues that miraculous prison-escape was a central event in a traditional and culturally significant story about the introduction and foundation of cults - a story discernable in the Bacchae and other ancient texts. When the mythic quality and cultural diffusion of the prison-escape narratives are taken into account, the resemblance of Lukan and Dionysian narrative episodes is seen to depend less on specific literary borrowing, and more on shared familiarity with cultural discourses involving the legitimating portrayal of new cults in the ancient world.

Pausanias's Description of Greece: Translation

Author : Pausânias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pausanias's Description of Greece: Translation written by Pausânias and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity

Author : Monica D'Agostini
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789255015
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity written by Monica D'Agostini and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great’s life. The affective ties of the protagonists of Alexander’s Empire nurtured the interest of the ancient authors, as well as the audience, in the personal life of the most famous men and women of the time. These relations echoed through time in art and literature, to become paradigm of positive or negative, human behavior. By rejecting the perception of the Macedonian monarchy as a positivist king-army based system, and by looking for other political and social structures Elizabeth Carney has played a crucial role in prompting the current re-appraisal of the Macedonian monarchy. Her volumes on Women and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great (Routledge, 2006), Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (Oxford University Press, 2013) have been game-changers in the field and has offered the academic world a completely new perspective on the network of relationships surrounding the exercise of power. By examining Macedonian and Hellenistic dynastic behavior and relations, she has shown the political yet tragic, heroic thus human side, thus connecting Hellenistic political and social history. Building on the methodological approach and theoretical framework engendered by Elizabeth Carney’s research, this book explores the complex web of personal relations, inside and outside the oikos (family), governing Alexander’s world, which sits at the core of the inquiry into the human side of the events shedding light light on the personal dimension of history. Inspired by Carney’s seminal work on Ancient Macedonia, the volume moves beyond the traditionally rationalist and positivist approaches towards Hellenistic antiquity, into a new area of humanistic scholarship, by considering the dynastic bloodlines as well as the affective relations. The volume offers a discussion of the intra and extra familial network ruling the Mediterranean world at the time of Philip and Alexander. Building on present scholarship on relations and values in Hellenistic Monarchies, the book contributes to a deeper historical understanding of the mutual dialogue between the socio-cultural and political approaches to Hellenistic history.

Pausanias's Description of Greece

Author : Pausanias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pausanias's Description of Greece written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Keys to Happiness

Author : Laura Engelstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721291
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Keys to Happiness written by Laura Engelstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances, in the staid assemblies of physicians, psychiatrists, and legal men—the talk everywhere was of sex. This eagerly awaited book, echoing the title of a pre-World War I bestseller, The Keys to Happiness, marks the first serious attempt to understand the intense public interest in sexuality as a vital dimension of late tsarist political culture. Drawing on a strong foundation of historical sources—from medical treatises and legal codes to anti-Semitic pamphlets, commercial fiction, newspaper advertisements, and serious literature—Laura Engelstein shows how Western ideas and attitudes toward sex and gender were transformed in the Russian context as imported views on prostitution, venereal disease, homosexuality, masturbation, abortion, and other themes took on distinctively Russian hues. Engelstein divides her study into two parts, the first focusing on the period from the Great Reforms to 1905 and on the two professional disciplines most central to the shaping of a modern sexual discourse in Russia: law and medicine. The second part describes the complicated sexual preoccupations that accompanied the mobilization leading up to 1905, the revolution itself, and the aftermath of continued social agitation and intensified intellectual doubt. In chapters of astonishing richness, the author follows the sexual theme through the twists of professional and civic debate and in the surprising links between high and low culture up to the eve of the First World War. Throughout, Engelstein uses her findings to rethink the conventional wisdom about the political and cultural history of modern Russia. She maps out new approaches to the history of sexuality, and shows, brilliantly, how the study of attitudes toward sex and gender can help us to grasp the most fundamental political issues in any society.

Element 79

Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473210836
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Element 79 written by Fred Hoyle and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can immortal man ever outwit the airlines? What if dumb animals could be trained to 'appreciate' the communications media of the human world? How does Number 38, Zone 11, respond when he sees a U.F.O? What happens to Slippage City when the Devil decides to think big? These - plus a remarkable sex comedy - are some of the intriguing themes of Element 79, the new Hoyle galaxy that ranges the full scientific spectrum and beyond into the furthest reaches of the imagination. Author Fred Hoyle is an internationally renowned astronomer and much of his fiction is rooted in the realm of what is possible - scientifically and psychologically - on earth and in space, in the present and the future. His visions of his fellow humans is disquieting, hilarious, and sometimes frightening; his social commentary is often etched in acid. In Element 79 Mr Hoyle steps forward to take a backward glance at the world - deftly balancing his followers between the unreal and the real, between a chuckle and a shudder.

Russia at Play

Author : Louise McReynolds
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501728776
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Russia at Play written by Louise McReynolds and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational crimes jump from city streets onto the screen almost before the pistols have had a chance to cool. Paris in the Twenties? Fitzgerald's New York? Early Hollywood? No, tsarist Russia in the last decades before the Revolution. In Russia at Play, Louise McReynolds recreates a vibrant, rapidly changing culture in rich detail. Her account encompasses the "legitimate" stage, vaudeville, nightclubs, restaurants, sports, tourism, and the silent movie industry. McReynolds reveals a pluralist and dynamic society, and shows how the new icons of mass culture affected the subsequent gendering of identities. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of the late tsarist period spawned dramatic social changes—an urban middle class and a voracious consumer culture demanded new forms of entertainment. The result was the rapid incursion of commercial values into the arts and the athletic field and unprecedented degrees of social interaction in the new nightclubs, vaudeville houses, and cheap movie houses. Traditional rules of social conduct shifted to greater self-fulfillment and self-expression, values associated with the individualism and consumerism of liberal capitalism. Leisure-time activities, McReynolds finds, allowed Russians who partook of them to recreate themselves, to develop a modern identity that allowed for different senses of the self depending on the circumstances. The society that spawned these impulses would disappear in Russia for decades under the combined blows of revolution, civil war, and collectivization, but questions of personal identity are again high on the agenda as Russia makes the transition from a collectivist society to one in which the dominant ethos remains undefined.

The Creation of Anne Boleyn

Author : Susan Bordo
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547999526
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of Anne Boleyn written by Susan Bordo and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating history examines the life and many legends of the 16th century Queen who was executed by her husband, King Henry VIII. Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne’s life and a revealing look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is her story so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? Was she the flaxen-haired martyr of Romantic paintings or the raven-haired seductress of twenty-first-century portrayals? (Answer: neither.) But the most provocative question of all concerns Anne’s death: How could Henry order the execution of a once beloved wife? Drawing on scholarship and critical analysis, Bordo probes the complexities of one of history’s most infamous relationships. She then demonstrates how generations of polemicists, biographers, novelists, and filmmakers have imagined and re-imagined Anne: whore, martyr, cautionary tale, proto “mean girl,” feminist icon, and everything in between. In The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Bordo steps off the well-trodden paths of Tudoriana to tease out the human being behind the competing mythologies, paintings, and on-screen portrayals.

A Study Guide for Euripides's "The Bacchae"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410340791
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Euripides's "The Bacchae" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Euripides's "The Bacchae," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

The Crimson Thread

Author : Kate Forsyth
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Crimson Thread written by Kate Forsyth and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation, finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks, and kitchen knives. During the bloody eleven-day battle, Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two Australian soldiers. Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. They are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering White Mountains. Both are among the seven thousand Allied soldiers left behind in the desperate evacuation from Crete’s storm-lashed southern coast. Alenka hides Jack and Teddy at great risk to herself. Her brother Axel is a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator and spies on her movements. As Crete suffers under the Nazi jackboot, Alenka is drawn into an intense triangle of conflicting emotions with Jack and Teddy. Their friendship suffers under the strain of months of hiding and their rivalry for her love. Together, they join the resistance and fight to free the island, but all three will find themselves tested to their limits. Alenka must choose whom to trust and whom to love and, in the end, whom to save.

Entertaining Tsarist Russia

Author : James Von Geldern
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211958
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Tsarist Russia written by James Von Geldern and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion disc features recordings of popular songs and vaudeville skits performed by some of Russia's most famous singers and comics of early twentieth century.