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Originally published in 1853, author Nathaniel Hawthorne delivers a vibrant selection of mythological tales inspired by some of the most popular figures in Greek lore. Tanglewood Tales is filled with whimsical characters and their fantastical stories.
Nathaniel Hawthorne brings Ancient Greek mythology to life in this collection of Tanglewood Tales. The author reinterprets the stories for a younger audience with a broad appeal. The book contains heroes...
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First published in 1921, "The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles" by the acclaimed and award-winning children's author Padraic Colum is a classic retelling of the ancient mythological tales of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. Woven into this volume of Greek mythology are also the stories of the creation of the heavens and the earth, Zeus's battle with the Titans, Pandora's box, Persephone in the Underworld...
3) The Odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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1050L
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English
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Odysseus--soldier, sailor, trickster, and everyman--is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across many different cultures. This lively free verse translation, from one of today's leading Homeric scholars, preserves the clarity and simplicity...
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In “Climbing Parnassus”, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. He also shows how these languages have played a crucial role in the development of authentic Humanism, the foundation of the West's cultural order and America's understanding of itself as a union of citizens. Simmons's persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in and of the classical languages...
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We are all classicists-we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality? This introduction to the classics begins with a visit to the British Museum to view the frieze which once decorated the Apollo Temple a Bassae....
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (487 pages)
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English
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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (circa 300-600 C.E.). Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, it illustrates how letter collections advertised an image of the letter writer and introduces the social and textual histories of each collection.
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Eager to learn the rules of magic, Lucius agrees to participate in a shapeshifting spell that suddenly goes awry, transforming the man into a donkey. His life is abruptly upended as he is attacked, stolen and sold multiple times before finding relief through divine intervention.
Lucius is enamored with witchcraft and begs a woman to transform him into a bird. Unfortunately, she fails, and he is immediately turned into an ass. This leads to a tumultuous...
9) The Sphinx
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Giza Trilogy volume 2
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Paul Morrison
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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THE SPHINX is the fictional and epic novel about the son of Pharaoh Khufu. This son was Pharaoh Khafre who built the second largest pyramid on the Giza Plateau. He is also thought to be the builder of the mysterious Sphinx. Or was he? The novel is not only about the life of Pharaoh Khafre, his rule over Kemet and his many military conquests, but is also the story of the Sphinx. What did this massive stone monument with the body of a lion and the face...
10) The Three Queens
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Giza Trilogy volume 3
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Paul Morrison
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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THE THREE QUEENS is a book about the life of the son of Pharaoh Khafre and grandson of Pharaoh Khufu - Pharaoh Menkaure, as well as his relationships with his three queens. It covers the period from c.2532 B.C. through to c.2500 B.C. (the death of Shepseskaf, Menkaure's son and heir). We only know the name of one of Menkaure's queens - Khamererenebty II. The other two are a mystery. A clue to one of the possible names is in the name of Menkaure's...
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist offers a precise, full, and accessible exposition of his landmark work in experimental psychology. Pavlov details the technical means by which he established experiments and controls, the experiments, observations on formation of conditioned reflexes, external and internal reflex inhibitions, the function of cerebral hemispheres and cortex, and more. 18 figures.
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epsilon kappa publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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Volume 3 of the Greek mythology e-book series for young people by 'ek publishing' and 'Stephanidi Publications', based on the original Greek myths. Who was Theseus? The child who did not know his father was the god Poseidon. The boy who built himself into a youth of superhuman strength and lifted a huge rock to take a sword - a weapon left there for him by the king of distant Athens who had married and then left his mother. The young man who set out...
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epsilon kappa publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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Volume 2 of the Greek mythology children's e-book series by 'ek publishing' and 'Stephanidi Publications', based on the original Greek myths. The Trojan war has ended, with Troy engulfed in flames and Helen rescued. Now the victorious Greeks can finally sail home. But for one of the Greek heroes it will be a voyage far longer than he hoped. It will take Ulysses ten more years to reach his island kingdom, Ithaca, and on the way he will narrowly escape...
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Vampires of Athens volume 1
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Eva Pohler
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Gertrude Morgan, the only child of one of the wealthiest couples in America, is shipped away from her home in New York City to the American school in Athens against her will. Her parents just want to get rid of her, and she knows it. Although she has no friends (her private schoolmates all seem fake), she sees no point in making any new ones on her trip, since she'll only be visiting for one school year. Despite her efforts to remain...
17) Minotaur
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Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (278 pages)
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English
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Reimagining the Greek myth of the notorious half man, half beast, this book tells the tale of Asterion the Minotaur, recorded by the famous Roman poet, Ovid. "Where shall I start?" asked the Minotaur. Ovid made an expansive gesture with both hands, "Where else but the beginning of course." The Minotaur nodded his huge head, his eyes already glazing over with the weight of a thousand year old memories. So begins the story of Asterion as he describes...
18) From Deities
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From Gods Descendant Prophecies volume 2
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Mary Ting
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource
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English
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Ms. Ting seamlessly blends classic mythology with contemporary college-life, and heightens the stakes against seemingly impossible odds. Without a doubt, this author rocks at world building! - InD'tale Magazine***A mysterious stranger enters Skylar's inner circle, destroying her precarious peace. She begins college amid new secrets, emerging powers, fresh dangers, and a potential stepfather. In New Olympus, a hidden dwelling place for descendants...
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namelos
Pub. Date
2009
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1 online resource (152 p.)
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English
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"A highly imaginative novel inspired by the myth of Persephone.There are lots of unexplained things going on around dear Mrs. Bramble. Sometimes it's just a tiny thing, like getting out of an illegal parking spot before the traffic cop notices, but when it comes to annoying cousin Crispin, well, after what happens to him, he probably doesn't see things as quite so innocent. Adam and his sister Lottie start to put two and two together (especially after...
20) Lysistrata
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Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
1991.
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1 online resource (67 pages)
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English
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"Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that instead of a heavily poetic presentation the play becomes highly theatrical."--
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