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Songs on Bronze
Nigel Jonathan Spivey
其他書名
The Greek Myths Made Real
出版Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
ISBN07394635949780739463598
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TozEjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal.Modern translations of the Greek myths have often sought to instruct, to edify, or to impart a personal philosophy. Songs on Bronze is different. Nigel Spivey gives us the Greek myths as the spellbinding stories they are. In bold, sensuous prose, he tells of Demeter and Persephone, of Jason and the Argonauts, of the wrath of Achilles and the travels of Odysseus, of Oedipus's crime, and Orpheus's excursion into the underworld. In his hands, these stories are revealed anew as outsize tales of love and strife, of secret compacts and open rivalries, of lust and desire.