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Annabeth has been away from Percy for six months, but at last they are about to be reunited. However, Annabeth fears Percy's time at Camp Jupiter may have turned him to the Roman ways instead of the...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...

Book IX of Herodotus' Histories is the conclusive climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. This English commentary treats...

In A Call to Heroism, Peter Gibbon argues that the heroes we honor are the embodiment of the ideals that America was founded on: liberty, justice, and tolerance chief among them. Because the very...

For decades, Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces -- with its emphasis on journeys that lead to glory and immortality -- has informed our cultural imagination. In this volume, Maria Tatar...

"World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our...

Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero. Whitney Kelting has learned that in Jainism satis appear as subjects of...

This work is a rare cross-cultural study of one of the most universal dialogic genres: heroic flyting, or the verbal duel in which the heroes, prior to physical combat, make boastful claims that must...

Theroux s eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It s Theroux s remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes going along for this ride worthwhile. New York Times...

Ordinary people seek connections to the natural world and each other in the poems of The Heronry, a collection that presents a series of spiritual encounters in the form of praise poems, lyric...

This text brings new approaches to Herodotus' sources and to his methods of collecting information, to the logic of his narrative and to his understanding of human behaviour. Drawing on recent...

From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Eye of the Heron.In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups—the farmers of Shantih...

Translated by George Rawlinson, Introduction by Francis R.B. Godolphin

Il libro comincia sotto segni sinistri per i Greci. I Persiani occupano Atene abbandonata e deserta: vi è rimasto soltanto un piccolo gruppo di Ateniesi, che barricano l'Acropoli con travi. Quando i...