Author: Pierre LouÿsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Aphrodite (ancient Manners)
Author: Pierre LouÿsAncient Manners; Also Known As Aphrodite
Author: Pierre LouÿsPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Aphrodite is an 1896 French-language novel by Pierre Louÿs. Set in Alexandria, the novel tells the story of Chrysis, a courtesan, and the sculptor Démétrios. A Galilaean with long golden hair (source of her Greek nickname), Chrysis is proud of her beauty and her skill at winning the devotion and servility of men. Démétrios, for his part, is worshiped by the women of the town, but has grown tired of their devotion. He has come to prefer his statue of the goddess Aphrodite even to his lover, Queen Bérénice, who posed for it. Chrysis is the only woman who does not care for him.
Aphrodite
Author: Pierre LouÿsAncient Manners; Also Known As Aphrodite
Author: Pierre LouÿsPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Aphrodite is an 1896 French-language novel by Pierre Louÿs. Set in Alexandria, the novel tells the story of Chrysis, a courtesan, and the sculptor Démétrios. A Galilaean with long golden hair (source of her Greek nickname), Chrysis is proud of her beauty and her skill at winning the devotion and servility of men. Démétrios, for his part, is worshiped by the women of the town, but has grown tired of their devotion. He has come to prefer his statue of the goddess Aphrodite even to his lover, Queen Bérénice, who posed for it. Chrysis is the only woman who does not care for him.
Aphrodite
Author: Pierre LouysAncient Manners
Author: Pierre LouÿsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Artemis the Loyal
Author: Joan HolubPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442485949
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Athletic Artemis rails against the all-boys' Olympic Games at Mount Olympus Academy, which leaves her at odds with her twin brother, Apollo, while a mortal boy named Actaeon catches her eye.
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece
Author: Claude CalamePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691159432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a divine figure around which poets constructed a physiology of desire that functioned in specific ways within a network of social relations. Calame begins by showing how poetry and iconography gave a rich variety of expression to the concept of Eros, then delivers a history of the deity's roles within social and political institutions, and concludes with a discussion of an Eros-centered metaphysics. Calame's treatment of archaic and classical Greek institutions reveals Eros at work in initiation rites and celebrations, educational practices, the Dionysiac theater of tragedy and comedy, and in real and imagined spatial settings. For men, Eros functioned particularly in the symposium and the gymnasium, places where men and boys interacted and where future citizens were educated. The household was the setting where girls, brides, and adult wives learned their erotic roles--as such it provides the context for understanding female rites of passage and the problematics of sexuality in conjugal relations. Through analyses of both Greek language and practices, Calame offers a fresh, subtle reading of relations between individuals as well as a quick-paced and fascinating overview of Eros in Greek society at large.
The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
Author: John Gardner WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
Author: John Gardner WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description