The Hills Of Adonis

Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446483664

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The Hills Of Adonis by Colin Thubron Pdf

For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country, but a quest for the gods and divinities who held the secrets of death and rebirth in the land's ancient cults. He visited almost every place of cultural importance, and lived with the people along his way, recording a country of outstanding natural scenery, rich with a unique medley of races and religions. The Hills of Adonis is both a travel book and a personal journal; for the quest is the search for meaning, a reflection on faith and reason and a poem on the joy and complexity of living.

Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Aphrodite (Greek deity)
ISBN : LCCN:69013574

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The Hills of Adonis by Colin Thubron Pdf

Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Lebanon
ISBN : 0140124071

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The Hills of Adonis by Colin Thubron Pdf

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1067512351

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˜Theœ flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff Pdf

Author : Fouad Ajami
Publisher : Bombardier Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781637581766

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When Magic Failed by Fouad Ajami Pdf

As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami’s sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s. The time was a transitional one—not only for the Middle East, but for America and the world. Lebanon in this era was just coming into its own as a cosmopolitan destination of the international jet set as well as earnest American educators seeking to modernize Arab society. The disruptive forces of the Middle East—the Cold War, the Palestinian conflict, religious extremism, the money and oil of the Gulf—were only just beginning to appear. In this haunting and beautifully written memoir of his Lebanese childhood, the late Middle East scholar, Fouad Ajami, casts a discerning light into the corners and alleyways of an Arab reality that would later erupt into full view.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082500532

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Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3172786-20

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Poetical Translations: Cook's Hesiod by Anonim Pdf

Author : William James Linton,Richard Henry Stoddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433074846175

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English Verse by William James Linton,Richard Henry Stoddard Pdf

Author : William James Linton,Richard Henry Stoddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090282823

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Translations by William James Linton,Richard Henry Stoddard Pdf

Author : Watson Kirkconnell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487590895

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Awake the Courteous Echo by Watson Kirkconnell Pdf

This Miltonic reference works is the third and final volume in a trilogy dealing with Miltonic analogues. It complements the author's previous compendia of analogues, The Celestial Cycle (on Paradise Lost) and That Invincible Samson (on Samson Agonistes). Thirty-seven years of research in the libraries of the world have unearthed on impressive array of analogues of Comus, Lycidas, and Paradise Regained; and the more important of these are now made available in Kirkconnell's English translation in Awake the Courteous Echo. The book includes 39 analogues of Comus, 102 of Lycidas, and 25 of Paradise Regained. These analogues range from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh to those of Milton's contemporaries. Dr. Kirkconnell's initial concern is not with source hunting, but with analogues as analogues, the Jonsonian masque, the pastoral elegy, and the brief epic. The subtlety, complexity, and powerful originality of Milton's art are here for the reader to enjoy. The major analogues in languages other than English are translated in both verse and prose. Both specialists and students of Milton will find this a fascinating and valuable study.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107480346

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The Greek Bucolic Poets by Anonim Pdf

Originally published in 1953, this book provides a series of English translations from ancient Greek bucolic poetry by Theocritus, Moschus and Bion. A detailed introduction is included, with information on each of the poets. Textual notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek literature, literary criticism and bucolic poetry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000754379Z

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Boston Masonic Mirror by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : English poetry
ISBN : ONB:+Z155903401

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The Works of the British Poets by Robert Anderson Pdf

Author : Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0819603201

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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Charles Mills Gayley Pdf

An illustrated anthology of classical myths, based on Bulfinch's nineteenth-century "Age of Fable," examining myths of divinities and heroes, and including commentary.

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691238333

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The Gardens of Adonis by Marcel Detienne Pdf

Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity--whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage. Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian women planted in mockery for Adonis's festival, and explores the function of such vegetal matter as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and wet plants in religious practice and in a wide selection of myths. His inquiry exposes, among many things, attitudes toward sexual activities ranging from "perverse" acts to marital relations.