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1) Like: poems
Author
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of poems on Classic and family themes" --
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An essential companion to the 75th-anniversary illustrated edition of Edith Hamilton's Mythology, this A-to-Z guide offers hundreds of rich and fascinating definitions of every major and minor character, creature, and place of classical mythology"--
5) Mythology
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Greek, Roman and Norse myths.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of twenty-four essays exemplifies Daniel Mendelsohns wide-ranging critical interests in the Greek inheritance, film, literature, television, and the personal essay. As always his writing on these subjects is filtered through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity, in ways that are both surprising and illuminating. Some of the essays examine how we continue to look to the Greek past to understand even the most contemporary...
Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to visual life. Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change. Metamorphoses played around the country and Off Broadway before moving to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre in March 2002."--Book Jacket.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ovid's famous mock epic--a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity--is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid's dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world--from...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, poetic, and uniquely accessible introduction to the world...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A revolutionary new understanding of the most famous and influential building in the world, a thesis that calls into question our basic understanding of the ancient civilization that we most identify with. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture, the epitome of the ancient society from which we derive our highest ideals. It was understood to honor the city-state's patron deity Athena, and its intricately...
13) Mr. Beethoven
Author
Language
English
Description
"It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffith's ingenious and delightful novel is that Beethoven accepted thecommission and traveled to the United States to oversee the first performance of the work. Griffiths grants the composer an additional lease on life of several, and starting with his voyage across...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of familiar and lesser-known Ancient Greek mythological tales includes the stories of Theseus and the Minotaur, the 12 Labors of Hercules (Heracles) and the voyages of Jason and the Argonauts, in a treasury that is complemented by additional background material.
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the themes of exile and wandering, homecoming and fated closures in literature-but also in real life and history-by invoking Homer's Odyssey. Focusing on crucial moments in the lives and careers of three scholar/writers-Erich Auerbach,François Faenelon, and W. G. Sebald-all of whom were inspired by Homer's epic, Three Rings uses "ring composition" (Homer's dominant narrative technique) to tell the stories of the three writers'...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't." Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece...
Author
Language
English
Description
"David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New York Times described as "the foremost classical stylist of our day," presents an intimate journey through his artistic life up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury almost cost him his career. Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood--an all-American story marred by intense bullying--and...
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this series of poems responding to Johann Sebastian Bach's spectacular "Goldberg Variations," New Hampshire State Poet Laureate Alice B. Fogel has paid homage to a 274-year-old masterpiece and, with the theme of spirit and embodiment that music--and life itself--evoke, has rendered from it a luminous new interpretation. Bach created the Goldbergs' 32 sections using nearly all the styles of western European music at the time; Fogel responds in...
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