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Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429639171 |
Download Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, and The Pumpkinification of the Emperor Claudius. Bringing this diverse material together for the first time, Anderson widens readers’ perspectives on the realm of fantasy in ancient literature, including topics such as dialogues with the dead, Utopian communities and fantastic feasts. Going beyond the more familiar world of myth, his examples range from The Golden Ass to the Late Antique Testament of a Pig. The volume also explores ancient resistance to the world of make-believe. Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature is an invaluable resource not only for students of classical and comparative literature, but also for modern writers on fantasy who want to explore the genre’s origins in antiquity, both in the more obvious and in lesser-known texts.
Author | : Emma Scioli |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-06-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0299303845 |
Download Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The elegists, ancient Rome's most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Emma Scioli examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics of visual representation to share with readers the intensely personal experience of dreaming.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004298606 |
Download The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature: Heroes and Eagles investigates the varying receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome in children’s literature, covering the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories and classical mythology, and considering the ideological manipulations in these works.
Author | : Karen ní Mheallaigh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108483038 |
Download The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch's mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata.
Author | : Caroline B. Cooney |
Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-01-21 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307485498 |
Download Goddess of Yesterday Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Anaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter, Princess Callisto. Six years later, her new island is sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Alone with only her Medusa figurine, she reinvents herself as Princess Callisto when Menelaus, great king of Sparta, lands with his men. He takes her back to Sparta with him where Helen, his beautiful wife, does not believe that the red-headed child is Princess Callisto. Although fearful of the half-mortal, half-goddess Helen, Anaxandra is able to stay out of harm’s way—until the Trojan princes Paris and Aeneas arrive. Paris and Helen’s fascination with each other soon turns to passion and plunges Sparta and Troy into war. Can Anaxandra find the courage to reinvent herself once again, appease the gods, and save herself? In Caroline B. Cooney’s epic tale of one girl’s courage and will to survive, Anaxandra learns that home is where you make it and identity goes deeper than just your name.
Author | : Rjurik Davidson |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429948388 |
Download Unwrapped Sky Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A hundred years ago, the Minotaurs saved Caeli-Amur from conquest. Now, three very different people may hold the keys to the city's survival. Once, it is said, gods used magic to create reality, with powers that defied explanation. But the magic—or science, if one believes those who try to master the dangers of thaumaturgy—now seems more like a dream. Industrial workers for House Technis, farmers for House Arbor, and fisher folk of House Marin eke out a living and hope for a better future. But the philosopher-assassin Kata plots a betrayal that will cost the lives of godlike Minotaurs; the ambitious bureaucrat Boris Autec rises through the ranks as his private life turns to ashes; and the idealistic seditionist Maximilian hatches a mad plot to unlock the vaunted secrets of the Great Library of Caeli-Enas, drowned in the fabled city at the bottom of the sea, its strangeness visible from the skies above. In a novel of startling originality and riveting suspense, these three people, reflecting all the hopes and dreams of the ancient city, risk everything for a future that they can create only by throwing off the shackles of tradition and superstition, as their destinies collide at ground zero of a conflagration that will transform the world . . . or destroy it. Unwrapped Sky is a stunningly original debut by Rjurik Davidson, a young master of the New Weird. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113456046X |
Download Fairytale in the Ancient World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including: * a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella * a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis * a Pied Piper at Troy. He puts forward many previously unsuspected candidates as classical variants of the modern fairytale and argues that the degree of violence and cruelty in the ancient tales means they must have been meant for adults.
Author | : Brett M. Rogers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0190610069 |
Download Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy presents fifteen all-new essays on how fantasy draws on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice.
Author | : B. P. Reardon |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400861845 |
Download The Form of Greek Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of life, this form of literature emerged long after the other genres and, until recently, seemed hardly worthy of critical attention. Here B. P. Reardon addresses the growing interest in ancient fiction by providing a literary and cultural framework in which to understand Greek romance, and by demonstrating its importance as an artistic and social phenomenon. Beginning with a discussion of Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe, Reardon sets out the generic characteristics of the romance. He then moves through a wide range of works, including those of Longus and Heliodorus, and reveals their sophistication in terms of social observation, technique within a convention, and the stance adopted by the authors toward their own creations. Although antiquity left behind little discussion of the genre, Reardon shows how romance can be assessed within its time period by considering the practice of narrative in other Greek literature and the concept of fiction in antiquity. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Arkady Roytman |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0486469956 |
Download Greek and Roman Gods Stained Glass Coloring Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sparkling way to color powerful gods of popular mythology, these 16 stained glass designs include Poseidon, the king of the sea; Zeus, the ruler of the sky whose weapon was a thunderbo