Author: David BrucePublisher:
ISBN: 9781301034802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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From the Iliad to the Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica
Author: David BrucePublisher:
ISBN: 9781301034802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Homer's Iliad: A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 131221810X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This is a retelling of Homer's great epic poem about the Trojan War, "The Iliad," in novel form.
Virgil's "Aeneid": A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312139862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This is a retelling in novel form of the Latin epic poem "Aeneid" by Virgil. My theme is war and a particular man-a man driven by destiny to abandon Troy and sail to western Italy to fulfill his fate of founding the people who would build Rome. Fulfilling his destiny was not easy. Juno, the wife of Jupiter, the king of gods and men, opposed him, as did many warriors. They did not want him to bring his household gods-the Penates-to Latium on the western coast of Italy, to found the city of Lavinium, and to marry Lavinia and become the ancestor of the Romans.
William Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329811828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
William's Shakespeare's "Othello": A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312442816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
William Shakespeare's "King Lear": A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132915214X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
William Shakespeare's "Hamlet": A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 131288522X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This is a retelling of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in modern English. If people read this version first, they will understand Shakespeare's original version much better.
Dante's Purgatory: A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312228660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book is a retelling in prose of Dante's "Purgatory," the second part of his "Divine Comedy."
William Shakespeare's "Coriolanus": A Retelling in Prose
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365254127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This is an easy-to-read version of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Coriolanus." People who read this retelling first will find Shakespeare's play easier to read and understand.
From the "Iliad" to the "Odyssey": A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrnas "Posthomerica"
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 131213979X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Homer created the epic poems ""Iliad"" and ""Odyssey."" The "Iliad" tells only a small part of the story of the Trojan War. For example, the "Iliad" does not tell the story of the Trojan Horse although Homer knew about the Trojan Horse and assumed that his audience knew its story. Other, shorter epic poems that made up the Epic Cycle told the rest of the story of the Trojan War. The ""Iliad"" and the ""Odyssey"" have survived to the present time, but the other epic poems of the Epic Cycle have been lost since ancient times. Fortunately, Quintus of Smyrna wrote an epic poem that retold the tales recounted in the lost epic poems of the Epic Cycle. He told the story of the Trojan War from the end of the ""Iliad ""to when Odysseus sets sail for home in the "Odyssey" after Troy has fallen. In this retelling, as in all my retellings, I have tried to make the work of literature accessible to modern readers.