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Author : Jean Betts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : New Zealand drama
ISBN : 0958339368
Based on A Midsummer Nights Dream, with the mechanicals as a female theatre troupe and Oberon falling for a hard line feminist Easter bunny. (5 male, 12 female).
Author : Antony Augoustakis,Monica S. Cyrino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350144255
This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The series is commended for the thought-provoking way it handles important issues arising from the Trojan War narrative that continue to impact our society today. With discussions centered on epic narrative, cast and character, as well as tragic resonances, the contributors tackle gender roles by exploring the innovative ways in which mythological female figures such as Helen, Aphrodite and the Amazons are depicted in the series. An examination is also made into the concept of the hero and how the series challenges conventional representations of masculinity. We encounter a significant investigation of race focusing on the controversial casting of Achilles, Patroclus, Zeus and other series characters with Black actors. Several essays deal with the moral and ethical complexities surrounding warfare, power and politics. The significance of costume and production design are also explored throughout the volume.
Author : Penrose Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191088032
Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity of the Amazon myth, and there have been few concessions between the two schools of thought since. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in the ancient world, bridging the gap between myth and historical reality and expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype. By shifting the centre of debate to the periphery of the world known to the Greeks, the startling conclusion emerges that the ancient Athenian conception of women as weak and fearful was not at all typical of the world of that time, even within Greece. Surrounding the Athenians were numerous peoples who held that women could be courageous, able, clever, and daring, suggesting that although Greek stories of Amazons may be exaggerations, they were based upon a real historical understanding of women who fought. In re-examining the sources of the Amazon myth, this compelling volume resituates the Amazons in the broader context from which they have been extracted, illustrating that although they were the quintessential example of female masculinity in ancient Greek thought, they were not the only instance of this phenomenon: masculine women were masqueraded on the Greek stage, described in the Hippocratic corpus, took part in the struggle to control Alexander the Great's empire after his death, and served as bodyguards in ancient India. Against the backdrop of the ongoing debates surrounding gender norms and fluidity, it breaks new ground as an ancient history of female masculinity and demonstrates that these ideas have a much longer and more durable heritage than we may have supposed.
Author : Sarah P. Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691241944
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.
Author : Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781576074886
Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology presents over 1,400 comprehensive A–Z entries of the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome. The entries are cross-referenced where appropriate, and an extensive bibliography is provided. Entries include Heracles and Alexander the Great, and geographical features such as the islands of the Blessed and Dardanelles. An unusual feature of this dictionary is the inclusion of astronomical data, linking the myths and legends to the celestial objects named after them. Diverse characters and events from related traditions—Greco-Egyptian, Roman-Celtic, and more—round out the volume. Students of classical Greek and Roman traditions, librarians, and general readers will turn to this volume again and again for authoritative information on the myths and legends of these ancient cultures.
Author : Harold T. Wilkins
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781605203218
Monstrous beasts, lost worlds, vanished civilizations, Amazon warriors, even Atlantis and Noahs ark figure in this wondrous and rare book. Hard to find in print before now, this obscure 1952 work is an artifact itself, of the postwar fascination with all things mysterious, from flying saucers to ancient astronauts to the third eye. In this wildly entertainingand more than a little bit preposterousdocument, Wilkins takes us from mountain jungles to unexplored swamps on a search for the hidden secrets of old South America. Seekers after the arcane and fans of the paranormal will delight in this odd and extraordinary volume. British journalist and historian HAROLD T. WILKINS (18911960) is also the author of Mysteries of Ancient South America (1945) and Mysteries of Time and Space (1958).
Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553897715
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steven Pressfield's The Profession. The author of the international bestsellers Gates of Fire and Tides of War delivers his most gripping and imaginative novel of the ancient world–a stunning epic of love and war that breathes life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons. Steven Pressfield has gained a passionate worldwide following for his magnificent novels of ancient Greece, Gates of Fire and Tides of War. In Last of the Amazons, Pressfield has surpassed himself, re-creating a vanished world in a brilliant novel that will delight his loyal readers and bring legions more to his singular and powerful restoration of the past. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens (an actual historical figure), set sail on a journey that brought him into the land of tal Kyrte, the “free people,” a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called “Amazons.” The Amazons, bound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of “civilization.” So when the great war queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled with the Greeks, the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage. Last of the Amazons is not merely a masterful tale of war and revenge. Pressfield has created a cast of extraordinarily vivid characters, from the unforgettable Selene, whose surrender to the Greeks does nothing to tame her; to her lover, Damon, an Athenian warrior who grows to cherish the wild Amazon ways; to the narrator, Bones, a young girl from a noble family who was nursed by Selene from birth and secretly taught the Amazon way; to the great Theseus, the tragic king; and to Antiope, the noble queen who betrayed tal Kyrte for the love of Theseus. With astounding immediacy and extraordinary attention to military detail, Pressfield transports readers into the heat and terror of war. Equally impressive is his creation of the Amazon nation, its people, its rituals and myths, its greatness and savagery. Last of the Amazons is thrilling on every page, an epic tale of the clash between wildness and civilization, patriotism and love, man and woman.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6M9A
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1853267945
Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North's translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the Lives whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch's writing.
Author : LCDR John W. Hedegor, U.S. Navy (ret'd)
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648045202
Bound Away: Volume One By: LCDR John W. Hedegor, U.S. Navy (ret'd) In John Hedegor’s sci-fi series, the first volume tells of Drew’s journey to another world, another time. After seeking shelter in a barn from a storm, Drew wakes up to realize that although it is the same barn he went to sleep in, everything else has changed drastically. In Bound Away, where science is true, Drew cannot return home until he has fulfilled his mission.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019341700
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600094223
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Greece
ISBN : OXFORD:302121977
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2GDG
Author : Keith Moser,Ananta Ch. Sukla
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004436350
This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise Imagination and Art propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms.
