Myth, Literature, and the Creation of the Topography of Thebes, Daniel W. Berman
Автор: Carlo Caruso Название: Adonis: The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance ISBN: 1474244033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474244039 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in the Italian literary culture of the Renaissance and early Baroque, one of the most interesting cases of the creative use of ancient mythology in post-Classical times.
Автор: Carlo Caruso Название: Adonis: The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance ISBN: 1780932146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780932149 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern revival of Classical mythology. While aiming to provide this general outline of the myth's fortunes in the Early Modern age, the book also addresses three points of primary interest, on which most of the original research included in the work has been conducted. First, the myth's earliest significant revival in the age of Italian Humanism, and particularly in the poetry of the great Latin poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. Secondly, the diffusion of syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of authoritative sixteenth-century mythological encyclopaedias. Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B. Marino's (1569-1625) Adone, published in Paris in 1623 to celebrate the Bourbon dynasty and to support their legitimacy with regard to the throne of France.
Описание: This book shows how the legendary past of Greek Thebes influenced the development of the city`s landscape from the time of the oral epics to the Roman period. It will appeal to readers with interests in the relationships between Greek myth, ancient topography and archaeology, and the development of urban space.
Автор: Demand Название: Thebes in the Fifth Century (Routledge Revivals) ISBN: 1138021059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138021051 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Thebes in the Fifth Century, first published in 1982, Nancy Demand examines the political and military history of this renowned city as it sought to regain prominence following its disgrace in the Persian Wars. A number of other aspects of Theban culture and society are also considered: its physical layout, religious cults, poetry and music, arts, crafts and philosophy.
Описание: Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan`s creation myth told here for the very first time in illustrated form.
Автор: Anderson Sarah M., Swenson Karen Название: The Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth ISBN: 1138991465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138991460 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.
Описание: This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolved in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, `authorship` of creative works, the image later became a way to explore the boundary between the sexes.
Описание: Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland, a nation whose volcanic activity places it perpetually on the brink of a world-changing environmental catastrophe. As the first full-length ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature, Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a profoundly strange, marginal, and at times hostile environment.Christopher Abram here contends that Ragnarok offers an uncanny foreshadowing of our current global ecological crisis—the era of the Anthropocene. Ragnarok portends what may happen when a civilization believes that nature can be mastered and treated only as a resource to be exploited for human ends. The enduring power of the Ragnarok myth, and its relevance to life in the era of climate change, lies in its terrifying evocation of a world in which nothing is what it was before, a world that is no longer home to us—and, thus, a world with no future. Climate change may well be our Ragnarok.
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