The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology: a woman created as punishment for the crimes of man, she is the bearer of hope yet also responsible for the Earth's desolation. She binds together perpetuating dichotomies that underlie the most fundamental aspects of the Western canon: beauty and evil, body and soul, depth and superficiality, ......
By combining fantasy and realism, ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"" praises court life with an undercurrent of satire against a declining chivalric ideal. This edition focuses on the Middle English text, with a Modern English Verse translation on facing pages and extensive notes at the bottom of the pages. It discusses the manuscript, the ......
An age-old, revolutionary design for keeping time by the moon: the almanach outlines a plan for your day-to-day - commemorating notable events in human history while forecasting others in the natural world. In this novel work of criticism, Helen Solterer adopts the form of the almanach to make the case for fiction as experimental work composed in ......
An age-old, revolutionary design for keeping time by the moon: the almanach outlines a plan for your day-to-day - commemorating notable events in human history while forecasting others in the natural world. In this novel work of criticism, Helen Solterer adopts the form of the almanach to make the case for fiction as experimental work composed in ......
In this new edition of Greek Mythology and Poetics, Gregory Nagy revisits the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. His far-reaching assessment provides fresh illumination of the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions ......
Penelope and Her Maids reconsiders the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. Her decisions have long been considered to be the product of a fractured characterization, with no coherent human psychology possibly explaining everything she says and does. Emily Shanahan investigates this characterization, and all of Penelope's decisions, in context, ......
Penelope and Her Maids reconsiders the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. Her decisions have long been considered to be the product of a fractured characterization, with no coherent human psychology possibly explaining everything she says and does. Emily Shanahan investigates this characterization, and all of Penelope's decisions, in context, ......
The Hell of Holy War reads Jean de Joinville's famous account of King Louis IX and his Seventh Crusade as a powerful and unique representation of war, memory, and loss during the Middle Ages. In 1248, Joinville, a French nobleman, set out for the Holy Land, having taken the Cross and vowed to follow King Louis IX - Saint Louis (d. 1270) - across ......