Found insideHelen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful ... Found insideThis book connects the emergence of Latin love elegy and a new, tender style in Roman wall painting. Found inside – Page 177... of Passion breaks the realistic illusion and seeks the spectator's full attention. Euripides' closing lines are about the unpredictability of the gods. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up ... Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works. Found insideThis work considers various modes of allusion to Homer in Apollonius' Argonautica, with particular reference to the poem's adaptation of recurrent scenes in Homer, the relationship of the Argonauts' voyage to Odysseus' wanderings and the ... Found inside – Page xiv... Most Euripidean tragedies were first performed at an annual festival in honour of Dionysus , the Greek god of wine , dancing , and theatrical illusion . Found inside – Page 76The monologue - speaker may be a god , a minor character , or a ( the ) major ... dramatic illusion does not take hold until the conclusion of the speech . Found inside – Page 301Linking Callas with Medea, she “accompanied him toward the infernal gods of opera ... something fundamentally different from his own rational Greek culture. Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae. Found inside – Page 208This is not the only command Medea issues from the mechane: like the gods she is ... 159: 'Although this final appearance of Medea involves an illusion that ... Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. Found inside – Page iBrill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues ... Found inside – Page 319Medea who was so young once Now sacrifices her full illusion To her ancient Gods. God of the cobra God of the night She begs forgiveness And will with her ... Found inside – Page 167... Little Mo ” Connolly MEDEA Greek : In Greek mythology , Medea was one of the ... Meeghan , Meggan , Meghan , MAYA Sanskrit : Illusion , fantasy or God's ... Found inside – Page 103The king tells Medea: “You think you'll cheat us with prevarication? ... to Tragedy: The Art of Illusion in Greek Poetry (New York: Routledge, 1990), 90–99. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power. Illustrated with engravings by Crispijn van de Pass. With this innovative analysis of Ovid's Metamorphoses the author provides an essential companion volume to his translation of the work itself. Found inside – Page 31In his critical study of Greek mythology published in 1955 Graves more ... her sister Pasiphaë and niece Medea, as myths relating to them present. Found insideBy looking at aspects of Medea that are largely overlooked in the criticism, this book aims at an open and multiple reading. Found inside – Page 294Alternative spellings: Medow Medea Meaning: Cunning Origin: Greek Pronunciation: meh DEE ah Description: In Greek mythology, Medea was a sorceress who took ... Found insideThis classic work of creative criticism from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argues that ancient Greek drama represents the highest form of art ever produced. Found inside – Page 21Dionysus straddles two worlds—mortal and immortal, god and beast, Greek and Asian ... and illusion) represents the antithesis of Apollo (god of rationality, ... Found insideThe central episode in the Portuguese rewritings of Medea is the break between the Asiatic princess and Jason, on the one hand, and Medea’s killing of their children in retaliation, on the other. Found inside – Page 33Greek Mythology is by his time in no danger of being forgotten: his subject is ... There follow the abductions of Medea, and of Helen (with recriminations ... Found inside – Page 142Medea's initial cries of woe find their dreadful echo in the identically ... first recorded instance of the use of the mechane for someone other than a god. Found inside – Page 251Awakened from sleep , Pelias inquired in terror what the goddess required of him . ... Pelias doubted this promise , until Medea , by removing the illusion of old age that she had cast about herself , turned young again before his very eyes . Found inside – Page 39Esch narrates the scene: “I wondered if Medea felt this way before she walked ... Demeter and Artemis—significantly, the Greek goddess of the wilderness, ... Found insideGiven that ancient Greece was very much a man’s world, most books on ancient Greek society tend to focus on men; this book redresses the imbalance by shining the spotlight on that neglected other half. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female ... Found inside – Page 368The author of the account does not imagine that Medea's magic-working created a reality; twice he speaks of illusions (eido ̄la) being created and once of ... Found inside – Page 10MEDEA/ MEDIA: GREEK GODDESS OF ILLUSION SCREEN FADE TO BLACK HSo just remember what your mama told you before she sent you on your way. Found inside – Page 52... of Medea in "Medea Culpa" is light-hearted fare compared with the Greek tales. The sorceress Medea, a priestess of the Underworld goddess Hecate, ... Found insideIn its conclusions the book challenges the distortions of much recent scholarship on Greek sexuality. And throughout it links the wary attitudes of the Greeks to our present-day concerns about love, sex, and family. Found insideThe 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.. ... Found inside – Page 338... Hindu creator, water goddess, see Tara, Maya's Water Illusion Chant, 1, ... 3 Medea – Greek goddess of witchcraft and magic, Medea's Invocation Chant, ... Found inside – Page 1263 He represents an ambiguous Medea , both goddess and woman , foreigner and native ; she is liminal ... animal / human , Greek / barbarian , male / female . Found inside – Page 152If the Euripidean model constructs Medea's otherness through the oppositions of gender and of Greek / barbarian , this Roman antecedent of Seneca's heroine ... Found insideNew Age Magick. Mystical & Paranormal Creatures. Empowered Heroines and Supportive Heroes. With the addition of an HEA, this series has it all! Click to start your reader library today! Found inside – Page 9The fluid nature of Greek myth makes neat schematisation an impossible task (although some ancient writers such as Apollodoros attempted it!), ... Found inside – Page xiv... Most Euripidean tragedies were first performed at an annual festival in honour of Dionysus , the Greek god of wine , dancing , and theatrical illusion . This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality ... Found inside – Page 69There is a reversion back to myth; opera returns to its Greek roots in Medea and the ... The shattering of the theatrical illusion (in Brechtian terms) is ... Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in ... "This is an important book, especially in its magisterial demonstration of how discourse analysis can be applied to the intertextual and anthropological study of Greek myth, in this case the foundation of Cyrene. Found insidetranslated, adapted, re-imagined from the Greek New Comedies of Menander and ... illusion and hence in foregrounding such tensions of ethnic identity, ... Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. 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