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Author : Homer,William Lucas Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3QA2
Author : Homer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375039134
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.
Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691218656
"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical commentary by Alan Jacobs: a preface to provide historical and publishing context; a longer introduction to orient the reader to the poems themselves; and detailed notes on words or passages in need of clarification for contemporary readers. Jacobs, who has edited two previous critical editions of Auden's poetry, argues that this was the most important single collection of poems Auden published, and also the most coherent of his collections. The two poetic sequences, "Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae," bookend a remarkable set of lyrics, with "The Shield of Achilles" itself at the heart. One of Auden's last long poems, it refers to moment in The Iliad in which Thetis, mother of Achilles, asks Hephaestus to forge a shield for her son. Auden re-imagines how the shield of Achilles would look in the modern age, when the rules of war and the role of the hero have been rewritten. While the volume was widely praised, it is now out of print (although the title poem is included in larger collections of Auden's poetry). A critical edition allows readers to better understand and appreciate one of Auden's most important later poetic works, written in what Jacobs describes as "a poetic idiom that differs quite significantly from what anyone else at the time was doing. . . . it is, in a vital sense, public poetry and it can be enjoyed, understood, and profited from. This edition is meant to make that enjoyment, understanding, and profit easier of access.""--
Author : Homer,Alexandros Palles
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0530897423
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Author : Homer,Agnes Spofford Cook Gale
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341770744
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9357001220
Odysseus, one of the war heroes, has still not arrived in his home country of Ithaca ten years after the Trojan War and the Fall of Troy. Odysseus is presumed dead, leaving his wife Penelope and son Telemachus to deal with a gang of wild suitors vying for Penelope's hand in marriage who have overtaken his palace and pillaged his country. Odysseus, however, is still alive and being held captive on the island of Ogygia by Calypso, who is madly in love with him and longs to make him her everlasting husband. How is Odysseus going to get home? Will he find his beloved Penelope again? The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus' "nostos" trip back home, expanding Homer's vibrant image of everyman's journey through life. It is the second-oldest piece of still-existing Western literature.
Author : Victor Davis Hanson,John Heath
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781893554269
With advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, this title shows how we might save classics and the Greeks. It is suitable for those who agree that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.
Author : Jonathan Shay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439124925
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).
Author : Karin Sisti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Legends
ISBN : 0600310612
Author : Homer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520966871
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green’s version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer’s epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627931458
The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy staring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey: Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn. Having been away for twenty years, little does he know what awaits him when he finally makes his way home. These two books are some of the most import books in the literary cannon, having influenced virtually every adventure tale ever told. And yet they are still accessible and immediate and now you can have both in one binding.
Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571258338
The Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. For a hundred generations, poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events described in this martial epic, even when direct knowledge of it was lost. Various empires have admired it as a book that in telling the story of the siege of Troy also extols the warrior ethic, and teaches the young how to die well. Yet the figure at the heart of the epic, the consummate warrior Achilles, is a brooding, controversial hero. He is a fierce critic of those who have started this war and allowed it to drag on, consuming soldiers and civilians alike. Disconcertingly, The Iliad portrays war as a catastrophe that destroys cities, orphans children and wrecks whole societies. Caroline Alexander's extraordinary book is not about any of the traditional concerns that have occupied classicists for centuries. It is simpler and more radical than that. In her words, 'This book is about what the Iliad is about; this book is about what the Iliad says of war.'
Author : Robert J. Rabel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature
ISBN : 0472107682
Argues that Homer, the poet of the Iliad, may be fully distinguished from the narrator of Homeric poetry
Author : Gareth Hinds
Publisher : Gareth Hinds
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781893131620
More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer’s legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. This stunning graphic novel captures all the grim glory of Homer’s epic. Dynamic illustrations take readers directly to the plains of Troy, into the battle itself, and lay bare the complex emotions of the men, women, and gods whose struggles fueled the war and determined its outcome.
Author : Mary White Rowlandson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387002805
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
