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Author : Phillip Parotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053271824
Twelve men who once served in the Trojan War tell their stories 50 years later about the war and about the people they knew.
Author : Phillip Parotti
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048711058
"In the manner of Robert Graves, Parotti extrapolates events from Homeric epic and vividly recreates scenes of the Trojan war from the viewpoints of lesser-known players. This companion book to The Greek Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War comprises dramatic monologues in which 10 aged veteran commanders nurse their war wounds in far-flung locations around the Mediterranean, while assessing the fall of Troy. They discuss errors of strategy and bemoan the war's carnage and the loss of loved ones. The style of their retelling echoes Homer, yet the idiom is contemporary. Many offer opinions of Helen, the "Spartan whore." Medon, savoring a cup of bitter Thracian wine, believes that Helen was not the cause; this was really a trade war, waged to wrest control of the sea from Priam. Pyracchmes, former leader of the archers, finds himself mining silver in Mt. Laurion in Attica. Hate, back home in Alybe, says Paris should have been executed as the prophecy had urged. Parotti, professor of English at Sam Houston State University, provides a note on the legends of Bronze Age Troy (whose site is in modern Turkey) and its downfall in 1250-1185 BC There are maps, a glossary and a gazetteer. This book will be especially prized by readers familiar with Greek myth and epic."--Publishers Weekly
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032795
Author : Joseph Roisman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199985845
The Classical Age of Greece produced some of history's best-known generals and commanders. They include the Spartan king Leonidas, who embodied his countrymen's heroic ethos in the battle of Thermopylae; the Athenian leader Themistocles, credited as the architect of Athens' naval power and of the Greek victory over the Persians; the famous democratic leader, Pericles, who prepared Athens and directed its conflict with Sparta, known as the Peloponnesian War; the Athenian general Demosthenes, who deviated from contemporary conventions of warfare with his innovative approach; the Spartan general Lysander, who won the Peloponnesian War for Sparta; Dionysius I of Syracuse, arguably the most innovative and best skilled of the eight generals discussed in this book; and Epaminondas and Pelopidas who together transformed their city, Thebes, into an hegemonic power. The Classical Art of Command gives readers a unique opportunity to examine the variegated nature of Greek generalship through the individual careers of eight prominent commanders. It describes the attributes of these leaders' command, the many facets of their individual careers and stratagems, and the mark they left on Greek history and warfare. It draws attention to the important role that personality played in their leadership. Joseph Roisman investigates how these generals designed and executed military campaigns and strategy, and to what degree they were responsible for the results. The volume also looks at how the Greek art of command changed during the Classical Age, and how adaptable it was to different military challenges. Other questions involve the extent to which a general was a mere leader of the charge, a battle director, or a strategist, and what made both ancient and modern authorities regard these eight generals as outstanding shapers of military history. Filled with original analyses and accessible accounts of legendary battles, The Classical Art of Command will appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient warfare and generalship.
Author : Adam J. Goldwyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319692036
Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.
Author : Helen Norris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0252015401
Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0252016025
Author : Charles East
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252065794
Fourteen stories on old age. In Crazy Heart, an old man reflects on his failed marriage, while Mr. Alello is on the indignity of a lonely death.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCAL:B5094487
Author : Ann Lowry Weir
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252060326
Author : Mark Costello
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252063198
These stories mark the return of Mark Costello's now-legendary creation Michael Murphy, the character who first appeared in the acclaimed collection The Murphy Stories. Joyce Carol Oates wrote in the Washington Post Book World, "Murphy is a Midwestern cousin of Donleavy's Ginger Man, but much more human and troubled. . . . It is a remarkable achievement, the presentation of a complex, suffering, self-conscious, and very lyric personality as he endures his own being."
Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0252018435
Author : Steven Schwartz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 025201815X
Author : Helen Norris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252060415
Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower hires a woman to keep him company...when these two lonely souls meet, the result is a heartwarming and redeeming weekend that will change both of their lives forever. In this and other stories in The Christmas Wife, distinguished author and four-time recipient of the prestigious O. Henry Award Helen Norris expertly blends the poignant and bittersweet in moments that quietly resonate beyond the page. Emotional and moving, Norris's stories masterfully celebrate the heart and soul's triumph over loss, regret, and the nameless longings common to all. With a new introduction by Kaye Gibbons, author of Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman, and more, this edition also includes the DVD of the film The Christmas Wife, starring Academy Award-winning actor Jason Robards and Tony Award-winning actress Julie Harris. Book jacket.
Author : Ted Gup
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307428196
A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country. In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these "nameless stars" might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted through thousands of documents and interviewed over 400 CIA officers in his attempt to bring their long-hidden stories to light. The result of this extraordinary work of investigation is a surprising glimpse at the real lives of secret agents, and an unprecedented history of the most compelling—and controversial—department of the US government.