Ergebnis für "The Iliad" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader, Agamemnon.

Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these 18 startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth.

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.

Los principales personajes de la obra principal de Homero - Alquiles, Paris, Menelao, Agamenón, Héctor - han quedado inmortalizados a través de este grandioso drama épico, uno de los más impresionantes que se han escrito jamás. Aquiles, guerrero formidable de supuesta inmortalidad, se enfada con Agamenón, el rey aqueo, quien le quita una esclava y por eso deja de luchar. Aquiles le ruega a Zeus que los aqueos pierdan y así los troyanos comienzan a hostigarlos.

Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman’s body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body.

Chi combatte sotto le mura di Troia? Gli eroi, ma anche gli dèi e, con molto accanimento, le dee. Dopotutto, questa immane contesa è stata scatenata da una rivalità tra divine: la famosa mela d’oro assegnata da Paride ad Afrodite, che in cambio gli ha dato Elena. E così, con occhi femminili stavolta è raccontata l’Iliade. È Atena a parlarci dell’ira di Achille, ed è la madre dell’eroe, Teti, a spiegare i moti dell’animo di suo figlio, le sue scelte che tanto sangue costeranno ai due eserciti.

Queste storie ambientate sui campi di battaglia di Troia e non solo, portano alla luce vicende che mai furono scritte o che, se mai vergate, presto furono dimenticate. Storie di vinti, di persone scomode, di chi la guerra non volle e la subì fino alle estreme conseguenze. Storie di sofferenza e di eroismo, gesta che sono d'esempio, che illuminano una via, che nel loro piccolo vogliono contribuire a indicare un futuro migliore.

Paris, son of King Priam and who is madly in love with Helen, escapes with her. Menelaus, former husband of Helen, blinded by jealousy and lust for revenge, will declare war on Troy. It will be the beginning of a ruinous tragedy that will last 10 years. Around this central nucleus, infinite events come to life that are linked by invisible fate, now tangling, now dissolving.

Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers and listeners have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, On Wine-Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family, a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction, a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny.

La battaglia raccontata da Omero nel XXII libro dell'Iliade resta ancora oggi uno dei momenti più intensi della letteratura occidentale. Una narrazione a distanza di migliaia di anni mantiene intatta la sua infinita bellezza e la sua incredibile intensità emotiva. L'epico scontro tra Achille ed Ettore è senza dubbio uno dei passi più drammatici di tutta l'Iliade. L'invincibile semidio greco, infatti, sfida l'eroe dei troiani in un duello già deciso dal fato e dagli dei.