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Classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek mythology, The Greek Myths. His translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguins. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961, and made an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, in 1971.
12 Ιαν 2023 · 782 pages : 22 cm. 'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on the waves below...'.
Offering an expansive view of the ancient Mediterranean world, Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation, Second Edition, presents essential Greek and Roman sources—including work from Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, and Ovid—alongside analogous narratives from the ancient Near East—Mesopotamia ...
11 Ιουν 2021 · These books explore myths of different cultures and expand the reader's mind with fascinating stories and useful historic background.-- Every chapter is enhanced with a question and answer section and expert commentary by noted scholars
Jupiter. A comprehensive guide to the sky god and goddeses of Greek mythology including Helius, Selene, Eos, Boreas, Zephyrus, Hesperus, Atlas, Horae, Hesperides, Zeus, Hera, Nyx, Hemera, Uranus, and other minor gods.
This is the introduction to the first modern study of the gods of the ancient Greeks in antiquity. The contents of the book are: List of illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century, Jan N. Bremmer; 1. What is a Greek God?, Albert Henrichs; Systematic Aspects: 2.
In Greek and Roman imagery, the Wind-gods were depicted in a “naturalistic” manner reminiscent of a naïve anthropomorphism: as serpentine wind-spirits essentially chthonian, in the earliest representations; as winged anthropomorphic deities participating in erotic pursuits, rapt and wedding scenes, especially on the Attic vases of the 5 th ...
