Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII
Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192824523 |
In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded it, unjust sentence. Though their ostensible theme is the misery and loneliness of exile, their real message, if they are read with the care they deserve, is one of affirmation. With a wit and irony that borders on defiance, Ovid repeatedly asserts the injustice of his sentence and of the preeminence of the eternal values of poetry over the ephemeral dictates of an earthly power. In technical skill and inventiveness these elegies rank with the Art of Love or the Fasti. For this new translation Alan Melville has reproduced, in rhyming stanzas, the virtuosity, wit, and elegance of the original.
Author | : Amie Jane Leavitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1543574165 |
The hunt is on! This empowering and engaging narrative tells the legend of the fierce Roman goddess Diana. This divine huntress was also the goddess of the moon and could talk to animals. Hear the compelling myths of Diana's powers and learn where she fits within a family of gods. Additional facts explore Diana's role as protector in Ancient Roman and Greek culture and how the goddess's influence appears in popular culture today.
Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2006-05-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141964367 |
In a world of gods and monsters, nothing is as it seems. When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chained to a rock; people are transformed into owls, frogs, even mountains; a boy falls tragically in love with his own reflection. Enter a universe where love is cruel, men are destroyed by the gods and treachery is paid for in blood ...
Author | : |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486311317 |
Reproduced from two charmingly illustrated volumes of the 1920s, this volume features 88 color images and 19 immortal tales. A bonus CD contains a selection of stories from the book.
Author | : |
Publisher | : National Gallery Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Actaeon (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : 9781857095470 |
As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, 14 leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian.
Author | : Mischa Andriessen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
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Author | : Andrea Alciati |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2004-07-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0786418079 |
Andrea Alciati's Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medieval Europe. First published in 1531, this illustrated book was a collection of emblems, each consisting of a motto or proverb, a typically enigmatic illustration, and a short explanation. Most of the emblems had symbolic and moral applications. Scholars depended on Alciati's book to interpret contemporary art and literature, while writers and artists turned to it to invest their work with an understood didactic sense. This new edition of the Emblematum Liber includes the original Latin texts, highly readable English translations, and the illustrations belonging to each of the 212 emblems. The editor's introduction explains both the importance and the cultural contexts of Alciati's book, as well as its innumerable artistic applications. For instance, close study of the emblems reveals--to cite only two examples--why statues of lions are traditionally placed before government buildings, and what underlying political message was conveyed by innumerable equestrian portraits during the Baroque era. The collection includes as an appendix the formerly suppressed emblem, "Adversus Naturam Peccantes," accompanied by a translation of the learned commentary applied to it by Johann Thuilius in 1612. An extensive bibliography points the student to scholarly research specifically dealing with artistic applications of Alciati's emblems. Altogether, this new edition of Alciati's seminal work is an essential tool for modern students of the liberal arts.
Author | : Chris Ofili |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Mythology, Greek, in art |
ISBN | : 9780956856654 |
Essays by Louis Antwi, Bazon Brock, Carolina Grau and Greg Tate. Introduction by Christoph Zuchlag.