Jocasta Wife And Mother

Author : Victoria Grossack,Alice Underwood
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145632781X

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Jocasta by Victoria Grossack,Alice Underwood Pdf

Young and beautiful, born to a powerful family, Jocasta is destined to become Queen of Thebes... trapped in a loveless marriage, she cannot save her firstborn child from her husband's wrath... left alone on the throne after her husband's death, she must contend with the dangerous Sphinx and contrive a plan to protect her city...charmed by a foreign prince, she does not know she is falling in love with her own son...A vibrant tale set in Bronze Age Greece, Jocasta has garnered rave reviews from university faculty, publications such as Historical Novels Reviews Online, and numerous readers. A Greek-language version of Jocasta was released by Kedros Publishers of Athens in 2006.

Author : Victoria Grossack,Alice Underwood
Publisher : Publish America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Jocasta (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 1413726755

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Iokaste by Victoria Grossack,Alice Underwood Pdf

For millennia the story of Oedipus - who, despite all efforts to avoid his fate, killed his father and married his mother - has captivated imaginations. Even more compelling are the experiences of his wife and mother, Iokaste. In Iokaste, she finally tells her story. As the book opens, Iokaste's brother Kreon tells his sister she must die. The sacrilege of her unnatural marriage is revealed; the queen of Thebes can either take her own life or be torn to pieces by an angry mob. She has until dawn to choose the means of her death. Horrified, Iokaste's daughter asks: How much of the truth did you know? And when did you know it? Iokaste answers these questions. Through the disappointment of her first marriage and the loss of her firstborn child, Iokaste learns the sacrifices demanded of a queen. When her husband dies, Iokaste and her brother contend with the dangerous Sphinx and contrive a plan to protect their city. Then the prince of Korinth claims the heart of the queen, and Iokaste finds herself involved in a relationship richer and more complex and than she ever imagined possible - but this very love threatens the destruction of all she holds dear.

Author : Natalie Haynes
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609454814

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The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes Pdf

“[A] dark, elegant novel” of two women in ancient Greece, based on the great tragedies of Sophocles (Publishers Weekly). Thebes is a city in mourning, still reeling from a devastating plague that invaded every home and left the survivors devastated and fearful. This is the Thebes that Jocasta has known her entire life, a city ruled by a king—her husband-to-be. Jocasta struggles through this miserable marriage until she is unexpectedly widowed. Now free to choose her next husband, she selects the handsome, youthful Oedipus. When whispers emerge of an unbearable scandal, the very society that once lent Jocasta its support seems determined to destroy her. Ismene is a girl in mourning, longing for the golden days of her youth, days spent lolling in the courtyard garden, reading and reveling in her parents’ happiness and love. Now she is an orphan and the target of a murder plot, attacked within the very walls of the palace. As the deadly political competition swirls around her, she must uncover the root of the plot—and reveal the truth of the curse that has consumed her family. The novel is based on Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, two of Classical Greece’s most compelling tragedies. Told in intersecting narratives, this reimagining of Sophocles’s classic plays brings life and voice to the women who were too often forced to the background of their own stories. “After two and a half millennia of near silence, Jocasta and Ismene are finally given a chance to speak . . . Haynes’s Thebes is vividly captured. In her excellent new novel, she harnesses the mutability of myth.” —The Guardian

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522715991

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles Pdf

Oedipus the King is the first tragic play in Sophocles' classic Oedipus trilogy. The plays tells the story of a man who eventually becomes the King of Thebes while fulfilling an extremely tragic prophecy.

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110301

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Favorite Greek Myths by Bob Blaisdell Pdf

Adventures, calamities, and conquests abound in stirring tales about Pandora's box, King Midas and his golden touch, the dreaded Cyclops, Narcissus and Echo, and many other familiar figures.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781504062831

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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles Pdf

The ancient Greek tragedy about the exiled king’s final days—and the power struggle between his two sons. The second book in the trilogy that begins with Oedipus Rex and concludes with Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus is the story of an aged and blinded Oedipus anticipating his death as foretold by an earlier prophecy. Accompanied by his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he takes up residence in the village of Colonus near Athens—where the locals fear his very presence will curse them. Nonetheless they allow him to stay, and Ismene informs him his sons are battling each other for the throne of Thebes. An oracle has pronounced that the location of their disgraced father’s final resting place will determine which of them is to prevail. Unfortunately, an old enemy has his own plans for the burial, in this heart-wrenching play about two generations plagued by misfortune from the world’s great ancient Greek tragedian.

Author : Brian Wilson Aldiss
Publisher : Friday Project
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city)
ISBN : 0007482140

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Jocasta: Wife and Mother by Brian Wilson Aldiss Pdf

Brian Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes, furies, hermaphroditic philosophers, ghostly apparitions and ambivalent gods.

Author : Nancy Huston
Publisher : McArthur Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Jocasta (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 1552788709

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Jocasta Regina by Nancy Huston Pdf

To write Jocasta Regina, Nancy Huston slipped into the two fables of Oedipus and gave a voice to Oedipus Rex’s wife, Jocasta, who has been silent for more than two thousand years. She shows us a Jocasta amidst her own people. Jocasta the wife, the mother of four children, the queen, she who cares for a city struck by plague. She is passionately in love with her husband Oedipus. Jocasta’s voice is heard through the women of the play: her daughters and her servant woman. She confides to them the family secrets carried by all women. Through the warmth and intimacy of a modern Jocasta, Nancy Huston summons the themes most dear to her - eroticism, motherhood, love, creation, and makes a tender tribute to this woman, a symbol of the fullness and invincible nature of maternal love. A piece composed as a huge poem, in which tragedy and comedy alternate, Jocasta Regina invites us to observe our own compulsions, and to identify what makes us so compulsive ...

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547011286

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Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles Pdf

Plays of Sophocles is a set of three plays by Sophocles, an ancient Greek tragedian whose plays have survived until modern times. Included are Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone.

Author : Thomas Singer,Jules Cashford,Craig San Roque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429860157

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When the Soul Remembers Itself by Thomas Singer,Jules Cashford,Craig San Roque Pdf

Do the ancient Greek poets, playwrights, philosophers and mythologies have anything to say to modern human beings? Is their time finished, or do their insights have as much relevance to the human condition as they did 2,500 years ago? When the Soul Remembers Itself continues the exploration of the connections between ancient and modern psyche with a resounding affirmation of its ongoing relevance. Uniquely combining poetry, drama and storytelling in a pioneering collection, an international selection of contributors each explore a character, myth or theme from ancient Greece in the context of its relevance to the modern psyche. Each author enters an imaginative dialogue that pieces and bridges together fragments of the past with the present, exploring themes such as initiation, war, love, paranoia, tragedy and the soul’s journey through the vicissitudes of life on earth, through characters such as Ajax, Persephone, Orpheus, Electra, the Apostle Paul, Perpetua and Jocasta. Understanding myth is crucial in Jungian analysis, and by connecting the modern person with the age-old questions of life and death, the contributors bring truly archetypal narratives to life and speak to the human condition throughout the ages. When the Soul Remembers Itself will be of great interest to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, classics, ancient religion, archetypal studies and mythology. As the contributors’ conclusions apply to both contemporary theory and clinical practice, it will also appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in practice and training.

Author : Christiane Olivier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : MINN:319510024741499

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Jocasta's Children by Christiane Olivier Pdf

A major revision of Freudian theory: exposes the degree to which Freud - attuned to the inner world of the male - could do no more than guess at that of the female. A bestseller in France for more than a decade.

Author : Cecelia Eaton Luschnig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329799

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The Gorgon's Severed Head by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig Pdf

The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B62385

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Oedipus the king by Sophocles Pdf

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780195070071

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Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus Pdf

The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters.

Author : Brian Aldiss
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007482153

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Jocasta: Wife and Mother by Brian Aldiss Pdf

A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds. Part of the Brian Aldiss Collection.