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Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe (English) Paperback Book
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- ISBN
- 9781845951689
- Publication Year
- 2012
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- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Orpheus: the Song of Life
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Topic
- Literature, History
- Item Width
- 153mm
- Item Weight
- 334g
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A powerful and poetic work of history on the figure of Orpheus- his life and myth, and his representation and imagining from the sixth century BC to the present day.Winner of the Criticos Prize 2011. For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it- animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. She traces the man, and the power he represents, through the myriad versions of a fantastical life- his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalising Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalising the Fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death.
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Book Title
Orpheus: the Song of Life
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
334g
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