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- Readings on Homer / by Nardo, Don,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Homer; Epic poetry, Greek;
- © 1997., Greenhaven Press,
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- Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey : a biography / by Manguel, Alberto,1948-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Homer.; Homer; Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910; Epic poetry, Greek; Poets;
- © c2007., Douglas & McIntyre,
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- The Odyssey / by Homer,author.; Fagles, Robert.; Knox, Bernard,1914-2010.; Homer.Odyssey.English.1997.;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Poetry.; Epic poetry.; Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character); Classics; Literary;
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- The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.The Romans "did" more than war and politics. They created a distinctive culture that flowered in magnificent lyric and epic poetry, assimilated profound Greek influences, and gave us Cicero as Rome's greatest booster and toughest critic.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Education films.; Social sciences.; History, Ancient.; Education.; Instructional films.;
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- Paradise lost / by Milton, John,1608-1674,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve--the temptation and fall--is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking--seeking, in Milton's words, to "justify the ways of God to men"--Paradise Lost has been revered since its initial publication, inspiring writers from Mary Shelley to William Wordsworth, and is widely considered to be the greatest poem ever written in the English language."--- Subjects: Poetry.; Epic poetry.; Adam (Biblical figure); Eve (Biblical figure); Bible.; Fall of man; Good and evil;
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- Pandora's jar : women in Greek myths / by Haynes, Natalie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling women's stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora--the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world--was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate. Now, in Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, Natalie Haynes--broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist--redresses this imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope."--- Subjects: Artemis (Greek deity); Athena (Greek deity); Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae.; Eurydice (Greek mythological character); Hera (Greek deity); Penelope (Greek mythological character); Jocasta (Greek mythology); Mythology, Greek.; Women;
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- Doctor Zhivago / by Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich,1890-1960.; Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich,1890-1960.Doktor Zhivago.English.; Pevear, Richard,1943-; Volokhonsky, Larissa.;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Political fiction.; Epic literature.; Historical fiction.; War stories.; Classics; Literary;
- © 2010., Pantheon Books,
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- The immortals of Tehran : a novel / by Araghi, Ali,1981-author.;
"This generations-spanning novel carries one extraordinary family to the brink of the Iranian Revolution--and marks the debut of a literary talent to watch. As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing world. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse ... and the boy's own fated role in the story. Ahmad grows up to suspect that something unseen must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine, loss, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him, each turn of Ahmad's life is a surprise: from street brawler to father of two impossibly gifted daughters; from radical poet to politician with a target on his back. These lives, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution. A sweeping, multi-generational epic, this stunning debut heralds the arrival of a unique new literary voice. Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a story of the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love, family, and poetry--set against the indifferent, relentless march of time"--- Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Political fiction.; Blessing and cursing; Iranians;
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