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Author : Ovid
Release : 1960
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Book Synopsis Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII by : Ovid
Download or read book Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII written by Ovid. This book was released on 1960. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Florman
Release : 2002-08-23
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 556/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Myth and Metamorphosis by : Lisa Florman
Download or read book Myth and Metamorphosis written by Lisa Florman. This book was released on 2002-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2005-02-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis by : Sarah Annes Brown
Download or read book Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis written by Sarah Annes Brown. This book was released on 2005-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2009-07-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 495/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forms of Astonishment by : Richard Buxton
Download or read book Forms of Astonishment written by Richard Buxton. This book was released on 2009-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 1990
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Metamorphosis in Greek Myths by : Paul M. C. Forbes Irving
Download or read book Metamorphosis in Greek Myths written by Paul M. C. Forbes Irving. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
