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(Legendary character) Andromache Comic books, strips, etc (Legendary character) Cassandra Comic books, strips, etc Greece Greece Lesbos (Municipality) Queen of Troy Hecuba Comic books, strips, etc Sappho War and society Turkey Troy (Extinct city) Comic books, strips, etc Women Women and war Turkey Troy (Extinct city) Comic books, strips, etc Women Turkey Troy (Extinct city) Comic books, strips, etcCarson, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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Summary: A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone,' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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Summary: The love affair, marriage, and disintigrating relationship between two unnamed people is revealed through the voice of a woman in twenty-nine interrelated "tangos" of narrative verse that explore such themes as desire, beauty, love, and betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CARSummary: "The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CONEuripides.
Contents: Herakles -- Hekabe -- Hippolytos -- Alkestis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 EURSappho.
Summary: "A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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Summary: "Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing 2021