The Jason Voyage
Author | : Timothy Severin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Timothy Severin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Argonauts (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jason Colavito |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476615667 |
The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia. From the Bronze Age to the Classical Age, from the medieval world to today, the Jason story has been told and retold with new stories, details and meanings. This book explores the epic history of a colorful myth and probes the most ancient origins of the quest for the Golden Fleece--a quest that takes us to the very dawn of Greek religion and its close relationship with Near Eastern peoples and cultures.
Author | : Mary Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0810126060 |
As in her Tony Award–winning Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman transforms Greek mythology—here the story of Jason and the Argonauts—into a mesmerizing piece of theater. Encountering an array of daunting challenges in their “first voyage of the world,” Jason and his crew illustrate the essence of all such journeys to follow—their unpredictability, their inspiring and overwhelming breadth of emotion, their lessons in the inevitability of failure and loss. Bursts of humor and fantastical creatures enrich a story whose characters reveal remarkable complexity. Medea is profoundly sympathetic even as the seeds are sown for the monstrous life ahead of her, and the brute strength of Hercules leaves him no less vulnerable to the vicissitudes of love. Zimmerman brings to Argonautika her trademark ability to encompass the full range of human experience in a work as entertaining as it is enlightening.
Author | : Apollonius of Rhodes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0143106864 |
The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in the third century B.C., this epic story of one of the most beloved heroes of Greek mythology, with its combination of the fantastical and the real, its engagement with traditions of science, astronomy and medicine, winged heroes, and a magical vessel that speaks, is truly without parallel in classical or contemporary Greek literature and is now available in an accessible and engaging translation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Timothy Severin |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Aegean Sea |
ISBN | : 9780099461807 |
Author | : Ken Catran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : 9781894965439 |
The legend of Jason and Hercules and all the argonauts who dared the unknown seas for gold and glory.
Author | : Timothy Severin (Reiseschriftsteller, Grossbritannien, Irland) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Boats, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Timothy Severin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Aegean Sea |
ISBN | : |
When Jason and the Argonauts set out in search of the Golden Fleece, their journey took them from present-day Greece across the Aegean Sea, through the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara; then via the Bosphorus, into the Black Sea, and along the north coast of Turkey to Georgia. The author proves that the journey could have been made in an oared galley. Along the route he investigates many of the adventures attributed to the Argonauts.
Author | : Padraic Colum |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Argonauts (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : |
Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, as well as the tales of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, Theseus and the Minotaur, etc.