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Author : Carol P. Christ
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015011675595
"The spiritual and intellectual journey of a feminst theologian from Christianity to the goddess."--Cover.
Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520917156
Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task "rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amphora from hundreds of shards—of which more than half are missing." Yet, in his synthesis of historical evidence and ebullient invention, Green produces a seamless, moving, and persuasive portrait. He recreates Sappho's life by interweaving her surviving poetry into the narrative, not as quotations, but as her own imagined speeches and thoughts. Sappho's life spanned one of the most exciting periods in Greek history. Green's novel, full of details about daily life on ancient Lesbos, draws the reader into the political and social climate of her world: the civil strife accompanying the transition from aristocracy to mercantilism, the household relations between slave and aristocrat, the details of sea travel in the Aegean. Green wrote the novel while living on Lesbos, and his graceful rendering of the landscape, the rhythms of the seasons, and the varied flora of Sappho's island pervades the narrative. Sappho's poetry reveals a direct, spontaneous woman who eschewed artifice and embellishment. Green's extraordinary talent captures those qualities and brings this woman of unflinching honesty very much to life.
Author : Flora A. Keshgegian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Feminist spirituality
ISBN : OCLC:1296025456
Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : OCLC:222449242
Author : Jason Felch,Ralph Frammolino
Publisher : HMH
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780547538020
A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting
Author : Trista Mateer
Publisher : Central Avenue Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771681759
Voted one of the best poetry collections of 2019 by readers on Goodreads! Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer takes a magical approach to self-care with her new collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering and feminist retelling, Mateer transforms the mythology of the goddess into 224 pages of modern poetry and full-color artwork. Broken into sections alternating between the perspective of The Poet and Aphrodite herself, the work within tackles the timeless topic of love--romantic, platonic, and self-love. The collection addresses issues like heartbreak, sexuality, womanhood, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore, speaking your truths, and rewriting your origin story. If you let her, by the end of this book, Aphrodite will make you believe in the possibility of your own healing. "If you were only made to be beautiful, we wouldn't have put you down here in the dirt."Perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace, Nikita Gill, Rupi Kaur, Elizabeth Acevedo, Rick Riordan, and Madeline Miller; or anyone interested in Greek myths, tarot, and Instagram poetry. This is the first book in the Myth & Magick series, which also includes Artemis Made Me Do It and Persephone Made Me Do It.
Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:709987927
Author : Margaret Alexiou
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474403801
Explores the range and complexity of human emotions and their transmission across cultural traditionsWhat makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music?Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears. With a focus on the tragic, the comic and the tragicomic dimensions of laughter and tears in art, literature and performance, as well as on their emotional, socio-cultural and religious significance, it breaks new ground in the study of ancient and Byzantine affectivity.Key featuresIncludes an international cast of 25 distinguished contributors Prominence is given to performative arts and to interactions with other cultures Transitions from Late Antiquity to Byzantium, and from Byzantium to the Renaissance, form focal points from which contributors look backwards, forwards and sidewaysHighlights the variety, audacity and quality of the finest Byzantine works and the extent to which they anticipated the renaissance
Author : Carol P. Christ,Judith Plaskow
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506401195
In Goddess and God in the World, leading theologians Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow debate the nature of divinity, proposing a new method called embodied theology. They agree that the transcendent, omnipotent male God of traditional theology must be reimagined. Carol proposes that Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is in all being. Judith counters that God is an impersonal power of creativity that includes both good and evil. Rooting their views in experience and questioning each other, they offer a fruitful model of theological conversation across difference.
Author : Kelly Balch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798218022143
Petra Ambrosi is a Goddess with empathic abilities, though she is emotionless herself. She is overconfident and stubborn until she is sent down to Earth to live with mortals. Everything she believed she knew about the world turns upside down when she meets a young woman who unleashes emotions that have remained dormant in her for a century. Petra must now cope with a new vulnerability, as well as learn the hard way that the path to true love isn't always easy. She is challenged at every turn as she discovers her true self and feelings towards a mortal girl.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : 067437939X
Author : Tamar Rudavsky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814774533
Demonstates through different essays Jewish Womens movement rides the fine line between tradition and transformation.
Author : Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534431119
Join little Aphrodite for a sweet adventure in this third Little Goddess Girls story—part of the Aladdin QUIX line! Aphrodite is excited to be on an adventure to Sparkle City with her new friends, Athena, Persephone, and Artemis. After being rescued from her magical sea shell, Aphrodite hopes the super-duper powerful Zeus can give her the gift of likeability. Aphrodite knows that will make her be a better friend, especially to the girls she met on the Hello Brick Road. But when she finds a magical, gold apple along the way, something makes her keep it a big secret from the others. Will those magical powers help Aphrodite with her big ask for Zeus? Or will Aphrodite discover a very different kind of magic—the magic of friendship—is most important of all?
Author : Marie Phillips
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371270
A highly entertaining novel set in North London, where the Greek gods have been living in obscurity since the seventeenth century. Being immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Life’s hard for a Greek god in the twenty-first century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn’t respect you, and you’re stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there’s no way out... until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives and turn the world upside down. Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies the head and the heart.
Author : Gillian Bouras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Australians
ISBN : 0869143166
Tells of the life of a Greek matriarch in a village in the Peloponnese and of her difficult relationship with the author, her daughter-in-law. Follows on from 'A Foreign Wife' and 'A Fair Exchange.' The author has also written for various newspapers magazines and journals, in Australia and overseas.