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  • Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Journeys through Ancient Literature

    af Emily Wilson ...
    'Enthralling and profoundly relevant' Salman Rushdie'Joyful, illuminating and engaging ' Madeline Miller'A masterclass in translation' Blake Morrison, GuardianHow do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and what might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Emily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these ques... ... Læs mere

    107,63 kr.

  • Troy

    Our Greatest Story Retold

    af Stephen Fry ...
    Serier Bog 3 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths
    AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS.'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVER'Stephen Fry has done it again. Well written and super storytelling' 5***** READER REVIEW________'Troy. The most marvellous k... ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • Odyssey

    Discover the epic Greek tale before the film event of 2026

    af Stephen Fry ...
    Serier Bog 4 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths
    WHEN GODS TURN VENGEFUL, ONLY THE BRAVE CAN DEFY FATE AND FIND THEIR WAY HOMEDiscover Stephen Fry's epic re-telling of the Odyssey for the 21st century'Relatable and full of humour ' GUARDIAN'Fry breathes contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVER--After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his steadfast queen Penelope.</... ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • Discourses and Selected Writings

    af Epictetus ...
    Oversat af Robert Dobbin ...
    Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive ... Læs mere

    86,02 kr.

  • The Power of Myth

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war.“Campbell has become the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.”—NewsweekThe Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his ... Læs mere

    84,99 kr.

  • The Mighty Dead

    Why Homer Matters

    af Adam Nicolson ...
    Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New StatesmanLonglisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson sets out to explain why these great ... Læs mere

    113,12 kr.

  • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs

    Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology

    Serier serie Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology
    The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction to Celtic Mythology will serve the novice well – for it is a complicated history with the earliest written ... Læs mere

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  • Robin Hood: Legend and Reality

    af David Crook ...
    For over a century and a half scholars have debated whether or not the legend of Robin Hood was based on an actual outlaw and, if so, when and where he lived. One view is that he was not a legend as such but a myth: an idea, rather than a person who could possibly be identified in historical records and placed in a real historical and geographical context. Other writers have gone even further, ... Læs mere

    170,36 kr.

  • Nordisk åndsliv i vikingetid og tidlig middelalder

    af Axel Olrik ...
    I Jellingestenene står det indridset, at Harald Blåtand kristnede danerne. Men selvom landet i den sene vikingetid officielt havde bekendt sig til kristendommen, havde den traditionelle nordiske asatro stadig en afgørende betydning for skandinavisk kultur og folkeånd. I 'Nordisk åndsliv i vikingetid og tidlig middelalder' udforsker Axel Olrik overgangen fra nordisk mytologi til kristendom og ... Læs mere

    68,01 kr.

  • The Gallic War

    Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius

    af Julius Caesar ...
    Oversat af Carolyn Hammond ...
    Serier serie Oxford World's Classics
    The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns Caesar fought against the Gauls, Germans and Britons, it also serves a deeper political purpose, revealing him as a commander of breathtaking flair, ... Læs mere

    48,03 kr.

  • Our Vampires, Ourselves

    af Nina Auerbach ...
    This "vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America" examines the many meanings of the vampire myth ( Kirkus Reviews).From Byron's Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice's Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Da de tog land

    Historie, drømme og digtning i sagatidens Island

    De verdensberømte islandske sagaer om bl.a. Egil Skalle-Grimssøn, Gunløg Slangetunge og Njal nylæses af Keld Zeruneith, og for første gang nogensinde beskrives sagaernes vilde drømmeliv indgående.Målet er at påvise det bevidsthedsskred, der kan aflæses i sagaerne: De skildrer en hedensk tid præget af idealer om ære, ry og heltemod, men sagaforfatterne er kristne, og deres kristne værdier stikker ... Læs mere

    123,20 kr.

  • A Secret Vice

    Tolkien on Invented Languages

    First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and ... Læs mere

    192,55 kr.

  • The Divine Comedy

    One man's journey through the realms of eternity became the greatest poem ever written. In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri leads readers on an awe-inspiring voyage through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso) — a visionary exploration of the soul's path toward redemption and divine truth. Guided first by the Roman poet Virgil, and later by his beloved Beatrice, Dante ... Læs mere

    8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Hovedsporet

    Dansk litteraturs historie

    Dette er en dansk litteraturhistorie, men det særlige er, at den ser sit emne fra så højt et fugleperspektiv, at detaljerne forsvinder og hovedkonturen - hovedsporet - træder frem. I én bog på 700 sider når vi fra Vølvens spådom og de islandske sagaer over Kingo, Holberg, Oehlenschläger og Hauch til Brandes, Blixen, Brøgger og Guldager. Arbejdsgruppen bag Hovedsporet - Jens Anker Jørgensen, Johnny ... Læs mere

    46,20 kr.

  • Mythology

    Discover timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling book detailing classic Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends—featuring beautiful illustrations throughout.Edith Hamilton’s Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the myths that are the keystone of Western culture—the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from ... Læs mere

    66,79 kr.

  • How to Be

    Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

    af Adam Nicolson ...
    A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking ... Læs mere

    173,39 kr.

  • Aeneid

    af Virgil ...
    Oversat af Frederick Ahl ...
    Serier serie Oxford World's Classics
    'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the ... Læs mere

    88,11 kr.

  • Not All Dead White Men

    Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

    A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims—from Ovid’s Ars Amatoria to Seneca and Marcus Aurelius—arguing that they articulate a model of masculinity that sustained ... Læs mere

    136,36 kr.

  • Der Tod des Vergil

    af Hermann Broch ...
    "Der Tod des Vergil" ist ein Roman, in deren erzählt der Autor von den letzten Lebensstunden des römischen Dichters Virgil im Hafen von Brundisium nach. Virgils gesteigerte Wahrnehmungen während seines Todes erinnern an sein Leben und an die Zeit, in der er lebt. Der Dichter befindet sich in der Zeit zwischen Leben und Tod, so wie seine Kultur zwischen dem heidnischen und dem christlichen ... Læs mere

    15,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Novels, Plays, Essays & Autobiography (200+ Titles in One Edition): Wilhelm Meister's Travels, Faust Part One and Two, Italian Journey...

    This meticulously edited Goethe collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels & Novellas: The Sorrows of Young Werther Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years Elective Affinities The Good Women Novella; or, A Tale The Recreations of the German Emigrants - Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (A Fairy Tale) Plays The ... Læs mere

    15,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Monsters and the Critics

    The complete collection of Tolkien’s essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.The seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien’s work in medieval literature, they are ... Læs mere

    146,05 kr.

  • The Interpretation of Fairy Tales

    Revised Edition

    Serier serie C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series
    A Jungian psychologist argues how careful analyses of fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can lead to a deeper understanding of human psychologyOf the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way ... Læs mere

    136,36 kr.

  • Origins of The Wheel of Time

    The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

    Serier serie Wheel of Time
    “Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal.” —The New York Times on The Wheel of Time® seriesExplore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including:- A brand-new, redrawn world map by Ellisa Mitchell using change requests discovered in Robert Jordan's unpublished notes- An alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World- The long-a... ... Læs mere

    106,11 kr.