Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical AnthologyGeoffrey Miles Routledge, 11.09.2002 - 470 Seiten Classical Mythology in English Literature brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths. It allows students to explore the ways in which they have been reinterpreted and reinvented by writers throughout history. Beginning with a concise introduction to the principle Greco-Roman gods and heroes, the anthology then focuses on three stories: * Orpheus, the great musician and his quest to free his wife Eurydice from death * Venus and Adonis, the love goddess and the beautiful youth she loved * Pygmalion, the master sculptor who fell in love with his creation. Each section begins with the classical sources and ends with contemporary versions, showing how each myth has been used/abused or appropriated since its origins |
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... things; that they acted as 'charters', explaining and justifying social institutions; that they were records of religious rituals, garbled over time into narratives of real events; that they were political propaganda; that they taught ...
... things; that they acted as 'charters', explaining and justifying social institutions; that they were records of religious rituals, garbled over time into narratives of real events; that they were political propaganda; that they taught ...
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... thing, and superior to their Roman imitations. Homer and Plato, rather than Virgil and Horace and Ovid, are the great classical figures of the nineteenth century (see Jenkyns 1980; Turner 1981). The long dominance of the Metamorphoses ...
... thing, and superior to their Roman imitations. Homer and Plato, rather than Virgil and Horace and Ovid, are the great classical figures of the nineteenth century (see Jenkyns 1980; Turner 1981). The long dominance of the Metamorphoses ...
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... things, emerging out of Chaos along with Earth and Tartarus, and so is older than Aphrodite. Later, and more commonly, he is called the son of Aphrodite and Ares. At first depicted by the Greeks as a beautiful winged youth, he has ...
... things, emerging out of Chaos along with Earth and Tartarus, and so is older than Aphrodite. Later, and more commonly, he is called the son of Aphrodite and Ares. At first depicted by the Greeks as a beautiful winged youth, he has ...
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... things (as reported by Hesiod's Theogony) starts with Chaos, a yawning nothingness. Out of the void emerged Ge or Gaea, the Earth, and other primeval figures—including Eros or Love. Without male assistance Gaea gave birth to Uranus, the ...
... things (as reported by Hesiod's Theogony) starts with Chaos, a yawning nothingness. Out of the void emerged Ge or Gaea, the Earth, and other primeval figures—including Eros or Love. Without male assistance Gaea gave birth to Uranus, the ...
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allegorical ancient Aphrodite Apollo Aristaeus beauty Bion blood boar breast breath century Cinyras classical Cronus CYNISCA Cyprus dark daughter dead death Dionysus divine doth earth Eliza English Euripides Eurydice eyes EYNSFORD fair father flowers Galatea garden goddess gods Greek Greek mythology grief hand hath heart heaven hell Hercules hero HIGGINS Homer human immortal killed king kiss Kleinzeit lady lament legend light lips live LIZA London look love’s lover lyre Metamorphoses mortal mother Muses myth mythology nature night nymphs º º o’er Odysseus Orpheus Orpheus’s Ovid Ovid’s Paphos Persephone PICKERING play Pluto Poems poet poetry Pygmalion queen Renaissance Roman Shakespeare Shelley sing song soul spirit statue stone story sweet tears thee Theocritus Theseus things thou Thrace Thracian tradition trees Trojan turned underworld Venus and Adonis voice weep wife wild woman women writers young Zeus