Author: Kate Daniels
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980061
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them. She taps the lasting power of the ancient story in poems about personal loss and political insanity. Though the subjects are frequently grim, the final effect of the book is not, since Daniels's central theme is endurance, the discovery of what we need to survive.
The Niobe Poems
Author: Kate Daniels
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980061
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them. She taps the lasting power of the ancient story in poems about personal loss and political insanity. Though the subjects are frequently grim, the final effect of the book is not, since Daniels's central theme is endurance, the discovery of what we need to survive.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980061
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them. She taps the lasting power of the ancient story in poems about personal loss and political insanity. Though the subjects are frequently grim, the final effect of the book is not, since Daniels's central theme is endurance, the discovery of what we need to survive.
The Works of Charles Lamb,: Specimens of English dramatic poets
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Erathune #1
Author: Sebastian A. Jones
Publisher: Stranger Comics
ISBN: 1939834201
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Many years ago, Buxton Stonebeard was banished from his dwarven home amid a shower of blood. But his cursed axe demands a soul, and so the outcast must return. Accompanied by Skarlok, his unlikely Morkai ally, and Niobe, a budding hero, Buxton must save the town that condemned him.
Publisher: Stranger Comics
ISBN: 1939834201
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Many years ago, Buxton Stonebeard was banished from his dwarven home amid a shower of blood. But his cursed axe demands a soul, and so the outcast must return. Accompanied by Skarlok, his unlikely Morkai ally, and Niobe, a budding hero, Buxton must save the town that condemned him.
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Specimens of English dramatic poets
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Ovid As An Epic Poet
Author: Brooks Otis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.
Works: Specimens of English dramatic poets
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare: All's lost by lust ; A new wonder
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The War with God
Author: Pramit Chaudhuri
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199993386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
By examining literary accounts of theomachy (literally "god-fight"), The War With God provides a new perspective on the canonical literary traditions of epic and tragedy, and will be of great interest to scholars in Classics as well as those working on the European epic and tragic traditions. The struggle between human and god has always held a prominent place in classical literature, especially in the closely related genres of epic and tragedy, ranging from the physical confrontation of Achilles with the river-god Scamander in Iliad 21 to Pentheus' more figurative challenge to Dionysus in Euripides' Bacchae. Yet perhaps the most intense engagement with theomachy occurs in Latin literature of the 1st century AD, which included not only the overreachers of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hannibal's assault on Capitoline Jupiter in Silius Italicus' Punica, but also, in the richest and most extended treatments of the theme, the transgressive figures of Hercules in Seneca's Hercules Furens and Capaneus and Hippomedon in Statius' Thebaid. This book, therefore, explores the presence of theomachy in Roman imperial poetry, focusing on Seneca and Statius, and sets it within a tradition going back through the Augustan age all the way to archaic Greece. The central argument of the book is that theomachy symbolizes various conflicts of authority: the poets' attempts to outdo their literary predecessors, the contentions of rival philosophical views, and the violent assertions of power that characterized both autocratic authority and its opposition. By drawing on evidence from literature, politics, religion, and philosophy, this project reveals the various influences that shaped the intellectual and cultural significance of theomachy: from Stoic and Epicurean debates about the gods to the divinization of the emperor, from poetic competition with Vergil and Homer to tyranny and revolution under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199993386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
By examining literary accounts of theomachy (literally "god-fight"), The War With God provides a new perspective on the canonical literary traditions of epic and tragedy, and will be of great interest to scholars in Classics as well as those working on the European epic and tragic traditions. The struggle between human and god has always held a prominent place in classical literature, especially in the closely related genres of epic and tragedy, ranging from the physical confrontation of Achilles with the river-god Scamander in Iliad 21 to Pentheus' more figurative challenge to Dionysus in Euripides' Bacchae. Yet perhaps the most intense engagement with theomachy occurs in Latin literature of the 1st century AD, which included not only the overreachers of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hannibal's assault on Capitoline Jupiter in Silius Italicus' Punica, but also, in the richest and most extended treatments of the theme, the transgressive figures of Hercules in Seneca's Hercules Furens and Capaneus and Hippomedon in Statius' Thebaid. This book, therefore, explores the presence of theomachy in Roman imperial poetry, focusing on Seneca and Statius, and sets it within a tradition going back through the Augustan age all the way to archaic Greece. The central argument of the book is that theomachy symbolizes various conflicts of authority: the poets' attempts to outdo their literary predecessors, the contentions of rival philosophical views, and the violent assertions of power that characterized both autocratic authority and its opposition. By drawing on evidence from literature, politics, religion, and philosophy, this project reveals the various influences that shaped the intellectual and cultural significance of theomachy: from Stoic and Epicurean debates about the gods to the divinization of the emperor, from poetic competition with Vergil and Homer to tyranny and revolution under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties.
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description