[PDF] Myth And Metamorphosis eBook

Author : Lisa Florman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2002-08-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262561556

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A radical new interpretation of Picasso and his relation to the classical seen through the artist's prints of the 1930s.

Author : Sarah Annes Brown
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The impact of Ovid's Metamorphoses on our culture can hardly be overestimated. The poem is one of the most exciting and accessible classical texts, our key source for nearly all the famous myths of Greece and Rome. Sarah Annes Brown offers a lively, and sometimes provocative, introduction to the Metamorphoses, exploring the impact of recent critical developments and tracing its rich afterlife in both high and popular culture. The book's later chapters are devoted to five of the most memorable Ovidian stories - Apollo and Daphne, Actaeon, Philomela, Arachne and Pygmalion. Each subtle and elusive story is found to have generated a huge range of creative responses. The influence of the Pygmalion myth, for example, can be traced in Frankenstein, Vertigo and Blade Runner, as well as in the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare.

Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0199245495

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An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.

Author : Paul M. C. Forbes Irving
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198140900

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The transformation of human beings to animals, plants, and stones is one of the commonest and most characteristic themes of Greek mythology; whereas many cultures contain some such stories, in none are they so popular as in the Greek myths. Transformations are also some of the most mysterious and fantastic episodes in Greek mythology. Given the intriguing nature of the subject-matter, it is surprising that no study of these stories has ever appeared in English. But this book is unusual in its approach. Studies of Greek myths have usually tended to try to explain them away in terms of some external entity, whether it be some hypothetical ritual, some curious phenomenum of nature or some long-forgotten historical event. The book argues that this attitude ignores what is of most interest about Greek myths - their appeal as stories. The author analyses the various ways in which these stories imagine and explore what it means for a person to change his or her form.

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
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"It is the single most important work of poetry in ancient history" - M. L. Andres, author of 'A Simple but Effective Strategy for Success' & founder of The Block Bard. Ovid's 15-book epic, written in exquisite Latin hexameter, is a rollercoaster of a read. Beginning with the creation of the world, and ending with Rome in his own lifetime, the Metamorphoses drags the reader through time and space, from beginnings to endings, from life to death, from moments of delicious joy to episodes of depravity and abjection.The madness and chaos of some 250 stories, spanning around 700 lines of poetry per book, are woven together by the theme of metamorphosis or transformation. The artistic dexterity involved in pulling off this literary feat is testimony to Ovid's skill and ambition as a poet. This accomplishment also goes a long way in explaining the rightful place the Metamorphoses holds within the canon of classical literature, placed as it is beside other great epics of Mediterranean antiquity such as the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid.

Author : John Warden
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802065933

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The myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this book. It brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to present a conspectus of the myth's career, to show how it grows and changes to meet changing demands -- always different, yet always the same. Early Greek evidence for the Orpheus myth and a speculative explanation of its origins are offered along with chapters on the treatments of the myth by Virgil and Ovid, on Orpheus and Christianity, and on the allegorizing treatment of Orpheus which characterizes the Middle Ages. Orpheus in the Renaissance is studied in the work of the philosopher Marsilio Ficino; in Italian art from 1400 to 1600; in operas by Peri and Monteverdi; in a religious allegorical play by Calderon; and in the writings of Spenser, Milton, and Bacon. The Orpheus myth has been crucial in the defining of a culture. Its history demonstrates effectively the persistence and plasticity of myth.

Author : Mark H. Gelber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110934191

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This volume contains the lectures delivered at an international conference in Israel devoted to the topic of Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Zionism. Kafka's interests in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish Nationalism and his various relationships to his Zionist friends and his participation in Jewish national and Zionist-related activity are explored from a number of different critical vantage points. Likewise, his writings are considered within the specific framework of Jewish nationalism and Zionism.

Author : Mary Zimmerman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810119803

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This play is based on David R. Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Monologues.