Author: Karen Essex
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767926188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Stealing Athena is the story of two women, separated by centuries but united by their association with some of the world's greatest and most controversial works of art. Aspasia, a philosopher and courtesan to visionary politician Pericles during Athens's Golden Age, defies societal restrictions to become fiercely influential in Athens' power circle. Mary, the Countess of Elgin and a beautiful Scottish heiress, charms the fearsome men of the Ottoman Empire to make possible her husband's costly acquisitions, all the while brazenly defying the social conventions of her time. Both women prevail yet pay a heavy price for their rebellion. A tale of romance, intrigue, greed, and glory, Stealing Athena interweaves the lives of two of history's most beguiling heroines.
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 0786744707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: "Official history has it that Vasco Núde Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??" Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
Author: Lee Hall
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Athena forsakes her elemental female virtues and identity as she is co-opted by the male-dominated warrior culture of the Mycenaeans.
Author: John Likides
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453511237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 905
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Set partly in the present and partly in the future, Eros Triumphant centers on Andora Panvion, a wealthy predator of plutocrats preventing humanity from organizing an orderly exodus from our solar system. The bloated Sun evaporated Earth’s oceans. A global desert stretches between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer while the poles bear the only seas and vegetation. Humans live in subterranean cities across the solar system and several alien star systems. Around the galaxy’s central black hole, a ring 3.14 light-years in diameter bears oceans, landmasses, cities, and form-shifting beings fond of existentialism. Eros finally kills Thanatos.
Author: Shulamit Almog
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110766175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Publisher: E-Books Publisher
ISBN: 1780690908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Eleonore Stump
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: RONALD & PHILIP KINSELLA
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244803382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Princess Athena has a birthday surprise she?ll never forget! Living in the mid-21st Century, she ? along with her mechanical sidekick ?Magnus the Micro-Mutt? ? take a trip to Egypt where it is rumoured an archaeological team are unearthing the apparent remains of a creature ? a creature not of this world! Determined to seek out the elusive dig, Athena and Magnus find more than they bargained for upon locating the tomb and quickly realise that the infamous alien is not dead, rather ? suspended in hibernation. Carelessly interrupting the extra-terrestrial's slumber, Lord Sakkara is resurrected and his dreadful presence casts a shadow over the land. It is up to Athena, Magnus and their handsome bodyguard, Captain Scott, to confront the beast and to stop him from resuming command over planet Earth.
Author: Paul de Man
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748656251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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The first collection of texts by Paul de Man to follow the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1996), the title refers to de Man's Harvard thesis of the late 1950s, from which the long section on Mallarme is reproduced. Also included are texts by de Man on Ste
Author: Christopher Wood
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683158
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.
