The Song of Achilles

• Author : Madeline Miller
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 06 March 2012

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett “Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles

• Author : Madeline Miller
• Publisher : Ecco
• Release : 06 March 2012

Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.

• Author : Madeline Miller
• Publisher : Gramedia Pustaka Utama
• Release : 08 April 2019

Yunani pada zaman para pahlawan. Patroclus, seorang pangeran muda yang kikuk, diasingkan ke istana Raja Peleus dan putranya yang sempurna, Achilles. Mereka tumbuh menjadi pemuda yang cakap dalam seni perang dan pengobatan, dan kedekatan mereka berkembang menjadi hubungan yang lebih dalam---meski sangat ditentang oleh ibu Achilles, Thetis, dewi laut yang kejam. Lalu tersiar kabar bahwa Helen dari Sparta telah diculik. Bimbang antara takut dan rasa sayang terhadap sahabatnya, Patroclus pergi bersama Achilles ke Troy, tanpa menyadari bahwa tahun-tahun selanjutnya akan

• Author : Madeline Miller
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 10 April 2018

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother.

• Author : Madeline Miller
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 04 July 2013

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified.

• Author : John Augustine Sanford
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1895

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1893

• Author : Antony Augoustakis,Monica S. Cyrino
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 13 January 2022

This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The series is commended for the thought-provoking way it handles important issues arising from the Trojan War

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : CUP Archive
• Release : 18 May 2022

• Author : Thomas Schuttenhelm
• Publisher : Faber & Faber
• Release : 19 November 2019

Throughout his life, which spanned the greater part of the twentieth century (1905-1998), Sir Michael Tippett was a prolific letter-writer. He wrote to a vast number of people over the years, including family, friends and lovers, colleagues in the music world, journalists, poets, dramatists and politicians. Published to coincide with the centenary of Tippett's birth, these carefully selected letters provide us with a first hand account of the composer's private and professional experiences, revealing a uniquely personal view which until

• Author : Jeremy Rosen
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 04 October 2016

How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen

• Author : Charles Segal
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release : 18 May 2022

One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns are taken into account as well. Bringing a new richness to interpretation of this epic, Segal looks closely at key forms of social and personal organization which Odysseus encounters in his voyages. Segal also considers such topics as the

• Author : Silvia Montiglio
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 17 May 2010

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the notion of silence is not a universal

• Author : Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 17 January 2013

This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.

• Author : John Wilson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 2022