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Among the adventures of Odysseus, his encounter with the mysterious goddess Circe, who transforms the hero's companions into swine, has long been a favorite of readers. The combination of magic, metamorphosis, intrigue, seduction, and danger in this episode of the Odyssey make it particularly attractive and thought-provoking, so that many later authors mention or recreate it: Apollonius of Rhodes, Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Lope, Calderon, etc. This book analyzes the tradition of the Homeric myth in western literature, from ancient Greece to the present day, with particular attention to...

Desde hace algún tiempo Tomás Calvillo le viene tomando el pulso al paso del tiempo, un tiempo que no respeta y no da respiro a nadie. Ni al tiempo de los políticos, ni al tiempo de los empresarios, ni al tiempo de los académicos, mucho menos al hombre y a las mujeres de a pie. Por eso, al ritmo de una escritura pausada, casi aforística, el final de este escrito, pese a todo, no puede ser más esperanzador.

Excerpt from Catalogo de la Biblioteca Publica Municipal de Jerez de la Frontera, 1894 29 biblia (la Sagrada), traducida de la Vulgata latina al espanol, aclarando el sentido de algunos lugares con la luz que dan los textos originales hebreo y griego. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present...

DigiCat presents the George Orwell Collection -the greatest novels, poems, essays and autobiographical works of this great visionary in one volume: Novels: Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying Coming Up for Air Animal Farm 1984 Poetry: Awake! Young Men of England Kitchener Our Hearts Are Married, But We Are Too Young The Pagan Poem from Burma The Lesser Evil Romance Summer-like for an Instant The Italian Soldier Shook My Hand... Reflections on War and Society: Spilling the Spanish Beans Not Counting Niggers Prophecies of Fascism Wells, Hitler and the World State...