The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
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Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
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Author | : Homère |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1892 |
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Author | : W. H. Auden |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2024-05-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0691256586 |
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108594492 |
Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. It describes the reaction of the hero Achilles to the death of his closest friend, and his decision to re-enter the conflict even though it means he will lose his own life. The book also includes the forging of the marvellous shield for the hero by the smith-god Hephaestus: the images on the shield are described by the poet in detail, and this description forms the archetypal ecphrasis, influential on many later writers. In an extensive introduction, R. B. Rutherford discusses the themes, style and legacy of the book. The commentary provides line-by-line guidance for readers at all levels, addressing linguistic detail and larger questions of interpretation. A substantial appendix considers the relation between Iliad 18 and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, which has been prominent in much recent discussion.
Author | : Karin Sisti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : 9780600310617 |
Author | : Lisa Morton |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-10-10 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1789142814 |
From Halloween expert Morton, a level-headed and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead. Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism—when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born. Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by “spirit rappings”; Daniel Dunglas Home, the “greatest medium of all time”; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft proved more popular to the public than news about the war. The book also considers Ouija boards, modern psychics, and paranormal investigations, and is illustrated with engravings, fine art (from beyond), and photographs. Hugely entertaining, it begs the question: is anybody there . . . ?
Author | : Philostratus (the Athenian) |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004127012 |
This English translation, with introduction and notes, an extensive glossary, maps, and topical bibliographies, explores religious authority and revealed knowledge and is indispensable for the study of Homer, heroes, literature, religion, and culture in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
Author | : Steven Runciman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1987-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521347709 |
Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521878845 |
The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.
Author | : Simone Weil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
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