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Author : Bill Gladhill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487505779
Walking through Elysium traces Vergil's influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.
Author : Craig M. Workman
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
A failed college professor--Sam Kesterson--buries his wife and leaves his old life behind in search of the open road. He meets a man named Edgar along the way and--after his friend dies--walks cross-country to fulfill a promise he made to him. Once he reaches his destination, Sam interacts with the few remaining residents of Elysium Heights, a run-down tenement in a part of the city soon slated for demolition. He becomes friends with the residents, and ultimately fulfills his promise by saving Edgar's nephew and sacrificing himself in the process.
Author : Dani Hoots
Publisher : FoxTales Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
The gates to Tartarus have been opened and Kronos is now destroying the world. The only way to stop him is to find the legendary Scythe of Kronos. As Chrys is searching for the weapon, Huntley must convince Hephaestus to create a new lock for Tartarus. Hephaestus, however, holds some grudges against the gods, and the goddess who has the Scythe isn't letting go of her treasures. On top of all this, Aether has made his move to try and become King of the Gods. Will Chrys and friends be able to stop Kronos and Aether? Or will the worlds be forever changed? This is the last book in the Queen of the Underworld duology.
Author : Terence S McNamara
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1923087754
Terence S. McNamara’s ‘The Elysium Conundrum’ is a thrilling exploration of history, science, and human potential. With a broad education and a knack for storytelling, McNamara crafts a narrative that seamlessly bridges the gap between a tumultuous past and an astonishing future. In 1936, a mysterious figure emerges, altering the course of Nazi Germany and setting in motion events that resonate in a 2065 murder investigation. The New Science, with its time-rippling power, shapes a new destiny for humanity. By 2065, mankind has harnessed the gnome’s manipulation, forever transforming personal and military landscapes. Dive into this mind-expanding epic where boundless souls mirror an infinite universe, leaving an indelible mark on an ambiguous past
Author : Paddy Dillon
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 178362292X
This guidebook describes 33 half- and full day walks on the islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino. The routes range from 2.5-30km, beginning with a short heritage trail around the city of Valletta. Then follows a series of walks around the coastline of Malta, with a final few moving inland to explore the island's interior, before a description of the Heritage Trail around Mdina and Rabat. Walks on Gozo start with a heritage trail around Victoria, followed by a clockwise exploration of spectacular coastal walking that allows a complete circuit of the island. The final walk on Gozo wanders over a series of little hills further inland, while the last walk in the book might be the best of them all: a circuit around the lovely little island of Comino. The guidebook also gives details of accommodation, transport and tourist information. Malta may be known as a tourist destination, but it also offers plenty of historic walks, stunningly beautiful and dramatic architecture and excellent scenery, especially around the cliffs and coastlines.
Author : M. M. Buckner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429953764
It is the polluted and gritty future, saved, sort of, by technofixes. Young skydiver Orr Sitka wants no more from life in future Alaska than he already has: a woman he loves and the chance to dive. When he makes a reckless, record-breaking jump that catapults him into celebrity, he's courted by corporations that want to exploit his talent to make him a sports media star. The dangerous jump that wins Orr infamy turns out to be a breaking point for his loving girlfriend, Dyce, who is wooed away by a promising job in the thriving underground city of Seattle, a world media center in a crumbling civilization. Separately, Orr and Dyce are sucked into nightmare lives that take a terrible toll on each of them. When Orr learns that Dyce has become addicted to virtual reality, controlled by an eccentric media billionaire and his decadent daughter, he does everything in his power to rescue her. But is Orr strong enough to get through to Dyce and break them both out of hell?
Author : Maximilian Burkard
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1527570347
This book focuses on a selection of Machiavelli’s literary pieces, among which are the Mandragola, Belfagor, the Vita di Castruccio, the Epistola, and the Pastorale. As research into literary motif, it raises, across five essays, new evidence on Machiavelli’s sources and suggestions as to where he drew from them (including the works of Livy, Virgil, and Boccaccio). Of the two other essays included, one intimates the way in which Shakespeare seems to have reappropriated Machiavelli’s Mandragola in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in addition to Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale. The other is concerned with Mantegna’s Minerva Overcoming the Vices and proposes interpretative contexts for several of the painting’s iconographic details. This book will be of interest not only to those specialising in Machiavellian and Shakesperean literature, and the artwork of Mantegna, but also to those curious about how and why pre-Christian works have been drawn upon by subsequent Christian authors.
Author : Micah Young Myers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1000427455
This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome’s far-reaching empire. The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume’s discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The collection as a whole offers important insights into Roman poetics and into ancient notions of movement and geographical space. Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry will be of interest to specialists in Latin poetry, ancient travel, and Latin epigraphy as well as to those studying travel writing, geography, imperialism, and mobility in other periods. The chapters are written to be accessible to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.
Author : Andreas Heil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004511350
This monograph examines the literary representation of encounters between the living and the dead in Homer and the Roman epic poets of the early imperial period. The focus is on one particular situation: a witness to the afterlife (e.g. Odysseus or the Sibyl) who narrates encounters with the dead that he or she cannot (it would appear) actually have seen. This insufficiently studied and intriguing motif, namely seemingly impossible eye-witness testimony, can already be traced in Homer and then with variations in Vergil, the Culex poet, Lucan, Silius Italicus, and Statius. Die vorliegende Monographie untersucht die literarische Gestaltung von Begegnungen zwischen Lebenden und Toten bei Homer und den römischen Epikern der frühen Kaiserzeit. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei eine besondere Situation: Ein Jenseitszeuge (z.B. Odysseus oder die Sibylle) berichtet von Begegnungen mit Toten, die er oder sie (scheinbar) nicht gesehen haben kann. Dieses unzureichend erforschte und faszinierende Motiv, nämlich die scheinbar unmögliche Autopsie, lässt sich bereits bei Homer und dann in Variationen bei Vergil, dem Culex-Dichter, Lucan, Silius Italicus und Statius nachweisen.
Author : Sheila L. Ager
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1487548370
The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores how various processes impacted the countless small-scale, local communities of the Greek mainland. Drawing on notions of locality, localism, local tradition, and boundedness in place, Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck delve into some of the main hubs of Hellenistic Greece, from Thessaly to Cape Tainaron. Along with their contributors, they explore how polis and ethnos societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding horizon and the meaning-making force of the local. The book reveals how local discourses were energized by local sentiments and, much like an echo chamber, how discourses related back to the community and the place it occupied, prioritizing the local as the critical source of communal orientation. Engaging with debates about cultural connectivity and convergence, Localism in Hellenistic Greece offers new insights into lived experience in ancient Greece.