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008 041015s2005 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2004024353
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050 00 $aPR6119.P585$bS67 2005
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100 1 $aSpivey, Nigel Jonathan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86008106
245 10 $aSongs on bronze :$bthe Greek myths made real /$cNigel Spivey.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2005.
300 $ax, 255 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tPrelude : Orpheus in love -- $gI.$tAn early childhood of the world -- $tOut of chaos -- $tPrometheus and Pandora -- $tDemeter and Persephone -- $gII.$tHeroes in the making -- $tHerakles -- $tTheseus -- $tPerseus -- $tJason and the Argonauts -- $gIII.$tWar about Troy -- $tThe judgment of Paris -- $tThe wrath of Achilles -- $tTroy taken -- $gIV.$tA hero's coming home -- $tThe travels of Odysseus -- $gV.$tThe stuff of tragedy -- $tThe house of Atreus -- $tOedipus -- $tUnending : Orpheus in the underworld.
520 1 $a"Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century: a set of dramatic versions of the great myths, which are recognized more than ever as stories without equal." "Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better than we do, and books like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf have demonstrated the power of classic texts to enchant and enthrall us. And yet the modern translations of the Greek myths have sought to instruct, to edify, or to impart a personal philosophy. Songs on Bronze is different. With this book, Nigel Spivey - a Cambridge classicist and a documentary host - gives us the Greek myths as the spellbinding stories they are. He tells of Demeter and Persephone, of Jason and the Argonauts, of the wrath of Achilles and the travels of Odysseus, of Oedipus's crime and Orpheus's excursion into the Underworld. In his hands, these stories are revealed anew as outsize tales of love and strife, of secret compacts and open rivalries, of lust and desire."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMythology, Greek$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115818
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024353.html
852 00 $bglx$hPR6119.P585$iS67 2005