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Author: Mrs. Ritson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 39
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Classical Enigmas, Adapted to Every Month in the Year is a book by Anne Ritson. It presents the reader with amusing riddles and flabbergasting conundrums based on English and Roman histories in a humorous manner.
Author: Mrs. Ritson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 39
Book Description
Classical Enigmas, Adapted to Every Month in the Year is a book by Anne Ritson. It presents the reader with amusing riddles and flabbergasting conundrums based on English and Roman histories in a humorous manner.
Author: Mrs. Ritson Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 38
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Classical Enigmas, Adapted to Every Month in the Year is a book by Anne Ritson. It presents the reader with amusing riddles and flabbergasting conundrums based on English and Roman histories in a humorous manner.
Author: Anne Ritson Publisher: W. DARTON ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
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Classical Enigmas : Adapted to Every Month in the Year, Composed from the English and Roman Histories, Heathen Mythology and Names of Famous Writers That Monster of Rome, who no equal can claim, For the crimes that for ever, have blacken'd his name. Augustus's sister, great Anthony's wife, Whom he left for that beauty, who cost him his life. The Emperor, who thought it improper to lay, When death call'd his soul from his body away, Determin'd the summons undaunted to meet, And was plac'd by his courtiers erect on his feet. That Prince whom the Romans delighted to name, As first of their race, tho' from Venus he came. That Emperor gigantic, who for his ring chose A bracelet, the wrist of his wife could enclose. The harsh Roman Father, who sternly sat by To condemn, and behold, his own children die. The conquer'd, whom first Cincinnatus did doom To pass through the yoke, for contending with Rome. Last one of the Twins, who was nurs'd by a goat, Yet founded old Rome, that great city of note. Now take the initials, and put them together, They'll tell you a month, that has often wet weather.
Author: Abraham John Valpy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108058094 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 395
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This forty-volume collection comprises all the issues of an early and influential classical periodical, first published between 1810 and 1829.
Author: Mike Davis Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1788732197 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.
Author: Joan Breton Connelly Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385350503 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 521
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon’s full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part, Connelly argues, to the frieze’s dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces, in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent.
Author: Curtis A. Gruenler Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268101655 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 636
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In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.
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