Queen Of Sparta Beyond Dust And Bones
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Queen Of Sparta Beyond Dust And Bones
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Author : Costas Komborozos
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-02-14
Queen Of Sparta Beyond Dust And Bones written by Costas Komborozos and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-14 with categories.
Gorgo holds her husband's shredded scarlet cloak. She feels freedom echoing far beyond dust and bones. She feels that Leonidas still lives, and that he is fighting for freedom's echo to move deeper into the future. She feels him being submerged by history's tide, which takes him far. The Spartan king feels himself drifting into the abyss. But then he feels the will to live, to live freedom and let freedom live. He wills the tide to move from formlessness to form. Freedom or death. There is no other choice. Leonidas breathes in this freedom as the tide moves forward. Seconds pass while history marches on. The king opens his eyes faintly in the tide's rolling shadows. He hears voices emerging from the tide. The voices become one. They merge with the freedom that the tide embodies. He meanders through the depths, reaching for the shore. Tyranny obscures the light shining on the tide. The voices are drowned out by silence, but then the voices merge again and become one. The warrior feels the voice echoing deep inside the tide, and he knows that he must fight for that voice. A bloodied silhouette treads upon silence. The sun shines against its dark frame, and light passes through the bright, fleeting wound on its shoulder. Its light briefly illuminates the figure's upper body. Light falls from the shadowy man's face. Small rivulets of sunlight appear near the man's eyes. But the light seems adverse to the indifferent shape it falls upon. It drifts right through the darkened man's bleeding gaze, which takes in the light but then lets it stream out aimlessly into the air. The figure stands rigidly upright and watches as the tide swirls a spectacularly long swirl. It now walks against the bright shimmering tide, which remains in a swirl. Then the silvery outline of the shadow becomes sharper, and the tide makes the silhouetted figure become fully visible and known. As soon as the figure becomes fully known, the tide finally moves beyond its swirl and crashes on rocky outcrops. The Spartan king stands a short distance from where the man is standing. He sees the man fully emerge into the brightness. The man becomes fully illuminated, and his brightened frame fully mirrors the unwavering light of the tide. Leonidas beholds the man with curiosity. He watches as the man becomes nearly inseparable from the tide. Then he realizes that the tide is a manifestation of the tide. The man is the tide in human form, he thinks. He was previously enshrouded in blackness, but then he shone with a brightness unmatched even by the most searingly white daylight. The man suddenly turns to look at Leonidas, who remains transfixed by the man's bewildering presence. And then the man looks away as the tide emerges. He walks into the tide and merges with it. Leonidas opens his eyes. The remnants of the dream linger inside the drumbeat of the fresh new seconds he has just awakened to. Time passes imperceptibly as the tide maintains its momentum. The Spartan king flows inside the tide. Sleep overcame him for a only brief second, and yet he saw the tide become fully manifest to him. The tide spoke to him in the shift from darkness to light. Then Leonidas feels that the tide is heading in a new direction. He sinks inside the dark depths, but then he emerges fully as before. He emerges from the darkness and sees a bright new shore.
Arcadian Days
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-03-07
Arcadian Days written by John Spurling and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-07 with Fiction categories.
A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus and Antigone, Achilles and Thetis, and Odysseus and Penelope. Award-winning historical novelist and playwright John Spurling draws on his lifelong love and knowledge of Classical Greek drama and poetry to reanimate five great male–female storylines from the Greek myths. The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage, and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world—earth, sea, and sky, represented by powerful gods and monsters. Taking inspiration from the incomparably beautiful and intense poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, John Spurling—a lifelong classicist and an award-winning playwright—spins five myths for contemporary readers. These captivating tales center on male-female pairs—Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and the sorceress Medea, Oedipus and his daughter Antigone, Achilles and his mother Thetis, Odysseus and Penelope—who, in the course of their stories, destroyed dynasties, raised and felled heroes, and sealed the fates of men.
Into The Land Of Bones
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Author : Frank L. Holt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-07-11
Into The Land Of Bones written by Frank L. Holt and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-11 with History categories.
Frank Holt describes what happened the first time a Western imperial superpower invaded Afghanistan.
Albion S Seed
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Author : David Hackett Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991-03-14
Albion S Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-14 with History categories.
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
The Conduct Of Life
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Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
language : en
Publisher: London G. Routledge 1884.
Release Date : 1884
The Conduct Of Life written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and has been published by London G. Routledge 1884. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Conduct of life categories.
The Song Of Achilles
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Author : Madeline Miller
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-04-12
The Song Of Achilles written by Madeline Miller and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
The World Book Encyclopedia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The World Book Encyclopedia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
The Lovels Of Arden
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Author : "Aurora Floyd" etc. author of "Lady Audley's secret" (is M.E. Braddon., the)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
The Lovels Of Arden written by "Aurora Floyd" etc. author of "Lady Audley's secret" (is M.E. Braddon., the) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.
The Queen Of The Air
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Author : John Ruskin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Queen Of The Air written by John Ruskin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Art, Greek categories.
Hags Sirens And Other Bad Girls Of Fantasy
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Author : Denise Little
language : en
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Release Date : 2006-07-05
Hags Sirens And Other Bad Girls Of Fantasy written by Denise Little and has been published by Astra Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-05 with Fiction categories.
From hags and harpies to sorceresses and sirens, this volume features twenty all-new tales that prove women are far from the weaker sex-in all their alluring, magical, and monstrous roles.