Who's Who in Greek and Roman Mythology DVD
Learn about the gods, heroes, and weird creatures
that provided Greek and Roman mythology with a bizarre
but interesting cast of characters. Hear about their rather
complicated interactions and understand why myths were important to
ancient people.
Metamorphoses
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.
Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's
style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's
unique and elusive vision of reality.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a
writer when Metamorphoses
was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him
a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little,
but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic
Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus
Caesar, and the
emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken
exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may
have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's
nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert
Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his
only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount
of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black
Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The
Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of
European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new
generation.
The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree Greek Myth from the First Gods to the Founders of Rome
The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion
CICERO Selected Works
Remus A Roman Myth
This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how
the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a
she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was
killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have
a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis
of the origins and development of the myth, and it offers important
insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which
myths could be created and elaborated in a nonliterate society.
Symbolic Mythology Interpretations of the Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome
Symbolic Mythology is the essential guide to understanding the
world of classical mythology. Through the author’s unique mix of
scholarly analysis and exciting storytelling, the divine, the heroic, and
the monstrous become easily accessible to everyone from the casual reader
to the serious student of myth.
Revelations about the ancient mythmakers of Greece and Rome
abound in this thorough and enlighteningly original treatment of a
multitude of powerful myths.
The Orchard Book of Roman Myths
Roman Myths, Heroes, and Legends
Presents biographical sketches of twenty-five gods and
goddesses of Roman mythology, from Apollo to Vesta.
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
This book discusses not only the fictional myths, fairy-tales &
folk-tales but also the sagas and legends which have some historical
basis. These myths are as important as their history for us to understand
their beliefs.
Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans :
A Sourcebook Containing the Constellations
of Pseudo-Eratoshenes and the
Poetic Astronomy of Hyginus
The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan
Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's
Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet
expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest
strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with
Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental
irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as
aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation--in many ways, as
Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear
in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that
emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin
culture.
Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and translator
who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years. Translating a poet of
such variety and vitality as Horace calls on all his literary abilities. Horace
(Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 bce), was born the son of a freed
slave in southern rural Italy and rose to become one of the most
celebrated poets in Rome and a confidante of the most powerful
figures of the age, including Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges...
Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology
The Age of Fable
Vivid, classic retellings of the myths of Greece and Rome, along with
stories of the Norse gods and heroes. Zeus and Hera, Apollo, Jason and
the golden fleece, the wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas, the deeds of
Thor, many more seminal stories underlying Western culture.
The
Chiron Dictionary of Greek & Roman Mythology :
Gods and Goddesses, Heroes, Places, and Events of Antiquity
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