Author: Thomas Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
History of the Greek Revolution
Author: Thomas Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
History of the Greek Revolution
Author: Thomas Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108043542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Published in 1833, this comprehensive two-volume history of the Greek Revolution draws upon Army officer Thomas Gordon's personal experiences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108043542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Published in 1833, this comprehensive two-volume history of the Greek Revolution draws upon Army officer Thomas Gordon's personal experiences.
Foiled
Author: Milly Mogulof
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN: 9781571430922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Arguably history's most famous woman fencer, named as one of the top 100 athletes of the century by Sports Illustrated, Helene Mayer won the gold for Germany in the 1928 Berlin Olympics. Eight years later, with America poised to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics over anti-Semitism, the Nazis brought Mayer home from self-imposed exile in California to be the token Jew on their team. This marvelous book is the story of a beautiful and talented young woman who tries to win back her citizenship by fencing for the Third Reich. The thought-provoking saga of the central figure in the 20th century's most dramatic sports controversy.
Publisher: RDR Books
ISBN: 9781571430922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Arguably history's most famous woman fencer, named as one of the top 100 athletes of the century by Sports Illustrated, Helene Mayer won the gold for Germany in the 1928 Berlin Olympics. Eight years later, with America poised to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics over anti-Semitism, the Nazis brought Mayer home from self-imposed exile in California to be the token Jew on their team. This marvelous book is the story of a beautiful and talented young woman who tries to win back her citizenship by fencing for the Third Reich. The thought-provoking saga of the central figure in the 20th century's most dramatic sports controversy.
Exiles Traveling
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042028769
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms “exile” and “travel” still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042028769
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms “exile” and “travel” still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.
Hero and Exile
Author: Greenfield,
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826443400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
After a distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, bibliographer and literary critic, Stanley Brian Greenfield, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, one of the founders of the annual Anglo-Saxon England and of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, died in 1987. He wrote primarily on Anglo-Saxon topics as well as later English poetry. He deeply explored the Old English poetic corpus, pointing out important meanings and qualities in insightful and sensitive readings. Hero and Exile brings together some of his most important essays, divided into three sections - Beowulfian Studies, The Old English Elegies and The Theme of Exile - attesting to his long and fruitful engagement with Old English literature.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826443400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
After a distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, bibliographer and literary critic, Stanley Brian Greenfield, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, one of the founders of the annual Anglo-Saxon England and of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, died in 1987. He wrote primarily on Anglo-Saxon topics as well as later English poetry. He deeply explored the Old English poetic corpus, pointing out important meanings and qualities in insightful and sensitive readings. Hero and Exile brings together some of his most important essays, divided into three sections - Beowulfian Studies, The Old English Elegies and The Theme of Exile - attesting to his long and fruitful engagement with Old English literature.
Odes for Victorious Athletes
Author: Pindar
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs. The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as entertainment. In their essential effect, these songs transform a physical triumph, as experienced by one man, into a sense of elation shared by his peers—men who have gathered to dine and to drink. Athletic odes were presented by small bands of dancing singers, influencing the audience with music and dance as well as by words. These translations respect the form of the originals, keeping the stanzas that shaped repeating melodies and danced figures and using rhythms meant to suggest performers in motion. Pindar's songs were meant to entertain and exalt groups of drinking men. These translations revive the confident excitement of their original performances.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs. The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as entertainment. In their essential effect, these songs transform a physical triumph, as experienced by one man, into a sense of elation shared by his peers—men who have gathered to dine and to drink. Athletic odes were presented by small bands of dancing singers, influencing the audience with music and dance as well as by words. These translations respect the form of the originals, keeping the stanzas that shaped repeating melodies and danced figures and using rhythms meant to suggest performers in motion. Pindar's songs were meant to entertain and exalt groups of drinking men. These translations revive the confident excitement of their original performances.
Ovid in Exile
Author: Matthew M. McGowan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the "Tristia" and "Epistulae ex Ponto" and to create for himself a place of intellectual refuge. From there he was able to reflect out loud on how and why his own art had been legally banned and left for dead on the margins of the empire. As the last of the Augustan poets, Ovid was in a unique position to take stock of his own standing and of the place of poetry itself in a culture deeply restructured during the lengthy rule of Rome's first emperor. This study considers exile in the "Tristia" and "Epistulae ex Ponto" as a place of genuine suffering and a metaphor for poetry's marginalization from the imperial city. It analyzes, in particular, Ovid's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the "Tristia" and "Epistulae ex Ponto" and to create for himself a place of intellectual refuge. From there he was able to reflect out loud on how and why his own art had been legally banned and left for dead on the margins of the empire. As the last of the Augustan poets, Ovid was in a unique position to take stock of his own standing and of the place of poetry itself in a culture deeply restructured during the lengthy rule of Rome's first emperor. This study considers exile in the "Tristia" and "Epistulae ex Ponto" as a place of genuine suffering and a metaphor for poetry's marginalization from the imperial city. It analyzes, in particular, Ovid's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry.
Ovid before Exile
Author: Patricia Johnson
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299224031
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The epic Metamorphoses, Ovid’s most renowned work, has regained its stature among the masterpieces of great poets such as Vergil, Horace, and Tibullus. Yet its irreverent tone and bold defiance of generic boundaries set the Metamorphoses apart from its contemporaries. Ovid before Exile provides a compelling new reading of the epic, examining the text in light of circumstances surrounding the final years of Augustus’ reign, a time when a culture of poets and patrons was in sharp decline, discouraging and even endangering artistic freedom of expression. Patricia J. Johnson demonstrates how the production of art—specifically poetry—changed dramatically during the reign of Augustus. By Ovid’s final decade in Rome, the atmosphere for artistic work had transformed, leading to a drop in poetic production of quality. Johnson shows how Ovid, in the episodes of artistic creation that anchor his Metamorphoses, responded to his audience and commented on artistic circumstances in Rome.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299224031
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The epic Metamorphoses, Ovid’s most renowned work, has regained its stature among the masterpieces of great poets such as Vergil, Horace, and Tibullus. Yet its irreverent tone and bold defiance of generic boundaries set the Metamorphoses apart from its contemporaries. Ovid before Exile provides a compelling new reading of the epic, examining the text in light of circumstances surrounding the final years of Augustus’ reign, a time when a culture of poets and patrons was in sharp decline, discouraging and even endangering artistic freedom of expression. Patricia J. Johnson demonstrates how the production of art—specifically poetry—changed dramatically during the reign of Augustus. By Ovid’s final decade in Rome, the atmosphere for artistic work had transformed, leading to a drop in poetic production of quality. Johnson shows how Ovid, in the episodes of artistic creation that anchor his Metamorphoses, responded to his audience and commented on artistic circumstances in Rome.
History of the Greek revolution, and of the wars and campaigns arising from the struggles of the Greek patriots in amancipating their country from the Turkish yoke
Author: Esq. Thomas Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Gorgon Born
Author: Cassie Day
Publisher: Cassie Day
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
To avenge my mother, I change my fate. To alter the realm, I bargain with the fates themselves. Gorgons were once legendary for snake hair and Medusa’s stone-turning gaze. Yet years after my mother Medusa’s murder, we’re no better than other island dwellers—isolated, forgotten, and insignificant. So when a benevolent night goddess reveals the truth of who my father is and what he’s done? I leave behind all I know. Anything to seek vengeance against those who did my mother harm: god-king Zeus and his brother Poseidon. To change my fate, I journey to the city of the gods to assassinate Zeus. To truly get revenge, I’ll have to twist not just the truth, but the plan laid out by none other than Nyx. And with the god of death living in my shadow, snarking at me even as he dredges up emotions I thought long-gone, I might succeed. I’ll risk anything for revenge—my heart, my life, my fate. But when the realm falls apart, will I risk everything to bargain with the fates and save Prasinos? If you like Greek mythology, slow-burn romance filled with snark, and legendary creatures, you’ll love Gorgon Born, the second book in an unputdownable fantasy trilogy.
Publisher: Cassie Day
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
To avenge my mother, I change my fate. To alter the realm, I bargain with the fates themselves. Gorgons were once legendary for snake hair and Medusa’s stone-turning gaze. Yet years after my mother Medusa’s murder, we’re no better than other island dwellers—isolated, forgotten, and insignificant. So when a benevolent night goddess reveals the truth of who my father is and what he’s done? I leave behind all I know. Anything to seek vengeance against those who did my mother harm: god-king Zeus and his brother Poseidon. To change my fate, I journey to the city of the gods to assassinate Zeus. To truly get revenge, I’ll have to twist not just the truth, but the plan laid out by none other than Nyx. And with the god of death living in my shadow, snarking at me even as he dredges up emotions I thought long-gone, I might succeed. I’ll risk anything for revenge—my heart, my life, my fate. But when the realm falls apart, will I risk everything to bargain with the fates and save Prasinos? If you like Greek mythology, slow-burn romance filled with snark, and legendary creatures, you’ll love Gorgon Born, the second book in an unputdownable fantasy trilogy.