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Author : Christopher Marlowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Marlowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero and Leander is a mythological short epic by the famous English writer and dramatist Christopher Marlowe. When Marlowe was killed after being accused of blasphemy, he left the poem unfinished to be later completed by George Chapman. The poem follows the love story between the two Greek mythological characters Hero and Leander which was first narrated in the works of the two ancient poets Musaeus Grammaticus and Ovid. Hero is a priestess of the goddess Venus to whom she has made a vow of chastity, yet she falls in love with Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the narrow sea passage known as the Hellespont. Leander, who promises to cross the Hellespont every night to reach his beloved, gets in trouble with Neptune, the god of the seas. When he eventually comes at Hero's door, he has to make use of his guile and physical beauty to seduce his coy beloved. At this point starts Chapman's contribution to accompany the two lovers until Leander drowns in the sea on his way to Hero. Watching her lover's dead body from her high tower, the latter decides to throw herself and die by his side.
Author : Silvia Montiglio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722909
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Myth of Hero and Leander written by Silvia Montiglio and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover's mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West. Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and eroticism, the author explores the origin of the legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages - notably in the writings of Christine de Pizan - and Renaissance; how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton.
Author : Brian Oliver Murdoch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900440094X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander written by Brian Oliver Murdoch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the literary reception of the love-story of Hero and Leander and its popularity from classical times to the present in different genres, from epigram to epic, and including drama, opera, burlesques and modern experimental works.
Author : Judith Deborah Haber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518679
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England written by Judith Deborah Haber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study uses close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton and Ford to investigate the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change or undermine the structures in which they are embedded.
Author : Hannah Fielding
Publisher : London Wall Publishing
ISBN 13 : 099556678X
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aphrodite's Tears written by Hannah Fielding and published by London Wall Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greece, one of the twelve labours of Heracles was to bring back a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. To archaeologist Oriel Anderson, joining a team of Greek divers on the island of Helios seems like the golden apple of her dreams. Yet the dream becomes a nightmare when she meets the devilish owner of the island, Damian Lekkas. In shocked recognition, she is flooded with the memory of a romantic night in a stranger's arms, six summers ago. A very different man stands before her now, and Oriel senses that the sardonic Greek autocrat is hell-bent on playing a cat and mouse game with her. As they cross swords and passions mount, Oriel is aware that malevolent eyes watch her from the shadows. Dark rumours are whispered about the Lekkas family. What dangers lie in Helios, a bewitching land where ancient rituals are still enacted to appease the gods, young men risk their lives in the treacherous depths of the Ionian Sea, and the volatile earth can erupt at any moment? Will Oriel find the hidden treasures she seeks? Or will Damian's tragic past catch up with them, threatening to engulf them both?
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780384354005
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Musaeus (Grammaticus.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Loves of Hero and Leander written by Musaeus (Grammaticus.) and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Marlowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.PP/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Musaeus (Grammaticus.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Loves of Hero and Leander written by Musaeus (Grammaticus.) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
