The Gods of Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gods of Greece write by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. This book was released on 1993. The Gods of Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The text was originally published with other illustrations in 1983 by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Here it is repackaged with reproductions of over 65 paintings by Francoise Gilot (the paintings were created independently--not expressly for the book). Neither the text nor the artwork are conventional explications of how the gods were understood by the Greeks, but rather, both writer and artist offer personal interpretations of each god's character, power, and meaning. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Gods of The Greeks
The Gods of The Greeks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gods of The Greeks write by Károly Kerényi. This book was released on 2016-10-21. The Gods of The Greeks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from Hesiod to Pausanias and from the Orphic Hymns to Proclus, Professor Kerényi provides a clear and scholarly exposition of all the most important Greek myths. After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans, from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to the reign of Zeus, to Apollo and Hermes, touching the affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches the ineffable mysteries of Dionysos. The lively and highly readable narrative is complemented by an appendix of detailed references to all the original texts and a fine selection of illustrations taken from vase paintings. ‘...learned, admirably documented, exhaustive...’—TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘...it most emphatically must be the book that many have long been waiting for...’—STEPHEN SPENDER ‘Kerényi’s effort to reinterpret mythology...arises out of the conviction that an appreciation of the mythical world will help Western man to regain his lost sense of religious values....(His) theory of myth and his actual interpretations of mythical themes...help to point the way to...a new kind of humanism.’—A. Altman, Philosophy
Gods of Ancient Greece
Gods of Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gods of Ancient Greece write by Jan N. Bremmer. This book was released on 2010-07-30. Gods of Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection offers a fresh look at the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. Bremmer and Erskine bring together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity. The Gods of Ancient Greece looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity and presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.
Greek Gods, Human Lives
Greek Gods, Human Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Gods, Human Lives write by Mary R. Lefkowitz. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Greek Gods, Human Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insightful and fun, this new guide to an ancient mythology explains why the Greek gods and goddesses are still so captivating to us, revisiting the work of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Shakespeare in search of the essence of these stories. (Mythology & Folklore)
Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook
Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook write by Liv Albert. This book was released on 2021-03-30. Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes bibliographic references and index.
