A Woman Of Lemnos

Author : Patrick Yaggy
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781610410472

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The Thebaid of Statius by Patrick Yaggy Pdf

The Thebaid of Statius: The Women of Lemnos presents the story of Hypsipyle and the women of Lemnos in a student-friendly reader designed to facilitate the reading, comprehension, and enjoyment of this high-interest tale. Discussion Questions encourage careful reading of and thoughtful reflection on the text, while Connections to the Aeneid questions prompt students who are familiar with Vergil's epic to explore the relationship of the Thebaid to its literary predecessor. This text provides the unadapted Latin text of the Thebaid Book 5.1–637.

Author : Maria Lampadaridou-Pothou
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1550711202

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A Woman of Lemnos by Maria Lampadaridou-Pothou Pdf

This first English publication of Maria Lampadaridou Pothou's work is a collection of her critically acclaimed writing. It includes a revisionist version of a Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone or The Nostalgia of Tragedy, which was written to protest Greek dictatorship. Praised by Samuel Beckett, Pothou wrote the other two featured plays, The Glass Box and Bidding You Farewell, in the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd. Also included are poems from The Mystic Passage.

Author : Lauren K. Taaffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317700159

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Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) by Lauren K. Taaffe Pdf

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

Author : Elisabeth Brooke
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781911597865

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A Woman's Book of Shadows by Elisabeth Brooke Pdf

The irresistible, definitive guide to the magical practices of contemporary women. Beginning with a brief history of witchcraft, it explores the huge range of beliefs, festivals, skills and lore, including:- goddesses, priestesses, witches- reincarnation, karma, magic, power- the aura, the chakras, psychic awareness, astral travelling, pathworking, dreamwork, healing- covens, initiations, collectives, lone witches- the circle, the altar, wands, robes, chalices, incenses, oils, candles- the moon, the planets- sabbats, esbats, solstices, equinoxes, Samhain, Candlemas, Beltane, Lammas- tarot, scrying, starcraft, herbal loreGathering together all the disciplines of European witchcraft and giving rituals and spells for use in our lives, A Woman's Book of Shadows, first published in 1993, is a remarkable compendium of magical lore, psychic skills and women's mysteries.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780856687082

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Ecclesiazusae by Aristophanes Pdf

Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic.

Author : Rachel S. McCoppin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476649344

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The Legacy of the Goddess by Rachel S. McCoppin Pdf

It is often assumed that the female characters found in popular folk and fairy tales are little more than inconsequential stereotypes--mostly serving as hapless victims in need of rescue, boring one-dimensional princesses, or egotistical and conniving villains. This book presents more fully-realized portraits of these female characters and the ways in which they actually represent bold and powerful connections to the goddesses of classic mythic narratives. The rich legacy of female goddesses, shamans, queens, and priestesses is in fact preserved and celebrated through these more modern representations, whether as brides who can transform into animals, wise old women who live alone in the deep wilderness, strong warrior maidens, or witches who can conquer and command the elements of nature. In contemplating this revised analysis of female characters within global folktales and fairy tales, readers can see that the goddesses of old have never truly been forgotten.

Author : Kevin Osborn,Dana Burgess
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0028623851

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Mythology by Kevin Osborn,Dana Burgess Pdf

An introduction to Greek and Roman mythology provides explanations of all the gods and their roles, origins of the myths and theories on who wrote them, and the function of myths in society

Author : Pierre Bayle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Biography
ISBN : UOM:39015009222855

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The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle by Pierre Bayle Pdf

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : NYPL:33433081584983

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In the Levant by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732644582

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In the Levant by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Reproduction of the original: In the Levant by Charles Dudley Warner

Author : Michael Lloyd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199265251

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Aeschylus by Michael Lloyd Pdf

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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Women
ISBN : UCBK:B000895493

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The Legend of Good Women by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451609981

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Oh My Gods by Philip Freeman Pdf

A professor of classics and visiting scholar at the Harvard Divinity school presents modern interpretations of traditional Greek and Roman myths that render classic themes accessible to a new generation of readers.

Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312139718

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Jason and the Argonauts: A Retelling in Prose of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica by David Bruce Pdf

Author : Mary Zimmerman,Peter Green,David R. Slavitt
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810126060

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Argonautika by Mary Zimmerman,Peter Green,David R. Slavitt Pdf

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.