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Author : Gregory Lyle Walker
Release : 1999
Genre : Mythology, African
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Book Rating : 404/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shades of Memnon by : Gregory Lyle Walker
Download or read book Shades of Memnon written by Gregory Lyle Walker. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Oden
Release : 2009-05-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Memnon by : Scott Oden
Download or read book Memnon written by Scott Oden. This book was released on 2009-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BC) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic grasp." A contemporary of Demosthenes and Aristotle, Memnon rose from humble origins to command the whole of western Asia in a time of strife and slaughter. To his own people, he was a traitor, to his rivals, a mercenary. But, to the King of Kings, his majesty Darius III of Persia, Memnon was the one man capable of defending Asia Minor from the rising power of the barbaric Macedonians. In a war pitting Greek against Greek, Memnon proved his quality beyond measure. His enemies fought for glory and gold; Memnon fought for something more: for loyalty, for honour, and for duty. He fought for the love of Barsine, a woman of remarkable beauty and grace, but most of all, he fought for the promise of peace. Through the deathbed recollections of a mysterious woman, the life of Memnon unfolds with brilliant clarity. It is a record of his triumphs and tragedies, his loves and losses, and of the determination that drove him to stand against the most renowned figure of the ancient world - an ambitious and brilliant young conqueror called Alexander the Great.
Author : Scott Oden
Release : 2006-08-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 317/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Memnon by : Scott Oden
Download or read book Memnon written by Scott Oden. This book was released on 2006-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move...Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BCE) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman, and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic grasp." A contemporary of Demosthenes and Aristotle, Memnon rose from humble origins to command the whole of western Asia in a time of strife and slaughter. To his own people, he was a traitor, to his rivals, a mercenary. But, to the King of Kings, his majesty Darius III of Persia, Memnon was one man capable of defending Asia Minor from the rising power of the barbaric Macedonians. In a war pitting Greek against Greek, Memnon proved his quality beyond measure. His enemies fought for glory and gold; Memnon fought for something more, for loyalty, for honor, and for duty. He fought for the love of Barsine, a woman of remarkable beauty and grace. Most of all, he fought for the promise of peace. Through the deathbed recollections of a mysterious woman, the life of Memnon unfolds with brilliant clarity. It is a record of his triumphs and tragedies, his loves and lossess, and of the determination that drove him to stand against the most renowned figure of the ancient world-the ambitious young conqueror called Alexander the Great.
Author : Jean-Luc Beauchard
Release : 2022-03-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 528/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Mask of Memnon by : Jean-Luc Beauchard
Download or read book The Mask of Memnon written by Jean-Luc Beauchard. This book was released on 2022-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What gives life its meaning? This question stands behind every philosophical inquiry, and philosophy itself arises from it. Confronting the problem of meaning is, as Camus says, the fundamental task of human life. Yet at bottom, meaning is an aesthetical category. Meaning hinges on interpretation. It makes sense then to turn to art--and in particular the art form which deals most explicitly with meaning, the novel--if we are to attempt to address it. Inspired by but critical of Roland Barthes's "death of the author" literary theory, The Mask of Memnon seeks to reconcile opposing philosophical approaches to the question of meaning by examining the death of the author from the perspective of the character, not the reader. In this work, the traditional dichotomy between external/objective meaning and internal/subjective meaning is upended and a new paradigm is proposed.
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Release : 2000-12
Genre : Mythology, African
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Book Rating : 420/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book Ra Force Rising written by . This book was released on 2000-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure continues in the second installment of the Shades of Memnon series, where it is 1200 B.C. and a young Kushite must fight for his family's survival.
