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24) Metamorphoses
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before―sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious―from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis,...
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets. Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of intimate friendship and love. Acclaimed literary...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Description
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but...
32) The Aeneid
Author
Series
(Classics illustrated) volume 0
Publisher
CCS Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Follow the epic tale of Aeneas and his band of Trojans, who after the fall of Troy are forced to travel the Mediterranean in search of a new homeland to call their own. After many adventures and battles they finally end up in Italy.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Taking readers on an extraordinary journey through mythical and modern landscapes, the author of a celebrated column for The Sunday Telegraph explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes and reveals the real roots of Homeric consciousness.
36) The Iliad
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Gillian Cross's fine retelling of Homer's epic story captures all the heroism and savagery of war and shows why the 'Iliad' has been called the first tragedy and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey - a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values."--BOOK JACKET
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"'Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus{u2019} son Achilleus / and its devastation.' For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation -- the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century -- while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's...
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
India's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India's cultural and religious expression, the Ramayana was originally composed by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 b.c. The epic of Prince Rama's betrayal, exile, and struggle to rescue his faithful wife, Sita, from the clutches of a demon and to reclaim his throne has profoundly affected...
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