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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Aci E Galatea
Author: Acis and Galatea, a Serenata, Etc. By John Gay
Author: John GayAci e Galatea. A pastoral opera [by G. Foppa], as represented at the King's Theatre ... The translation by F. Panormo, etc. Ital. & Eng
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Author: The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea
Author: Luis de Góngora y ArgotePublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is a poetic translation of Luis Góngora y Argote's Polifemo y Galatea, a major work by a major poet of the Spanish Golden Age. The main body of this English version consists of prose paraphrases of the English poetic text and an analytical commentary that accompanies the actual poetic text it reproduces faithfully both content and the form of the ottava rima of the Spanish original.
Cyclops
Author: Mercedes AguirrePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192524429
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative investigation, this book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that - quite apart from the fact that in myths the Cyclopes are not always one-eyed! This book provides a detailed, innovative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. The first part is organised thematically: after discussing various competing scholarly approaches to the myths, the authors analyse ancient accounts and images of the Cyclopes in relation to landscape, physique (especially eyes, monstrosity, and hairiness), lifestyle, gods, names, love, and song. While the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, famous already in the Odyssey, plays a major part, so also do the Cyclopes who did monumental building work, as well as those who toiled as blacksmiths. The second part of the book concentrates on the post-classical reception of the myths, including medieval allegory, Renaissance grottoes, poetry, drama, the visual arts, contemporary painting and sculpture, film, and even a circus performance. This book aims to explore not just the perennial appeal of the Cyclopes as fearsome monsters, but the depth and subtlety of their mythology which raises complex issues of thought and emotion.
The Speaker
Author: Metamorphoses, Book XIV.
Author: OvidGreek and Roman Mythology A to Z
Author: Kathleen N. DalyPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438119925
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the characters, events, important places, and other aspects of Greek and Roman mythology.
Programme
Author: Boston Symphony OrchestraPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1272
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Galatea 2.2
Author: Richard PowersPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312423131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.