Lives of the Greek Heroines (Illustrated Edition)

Nonfiction, History, Ancient History, Greece, Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book Lives of the Greek Heroines (Illustrated Edition) by Louisa Menzies, Charles River Editors
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Author: Louisa Menzies ISBN: 9781619826762
Publisher: Charles River Editors Publication: February 13, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Louisa Menzies
ISBN: 9781619826762
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Publication: February 13, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English
Lives of the Greek Heroines, published in the late 19th century, tells the tales of the Greek heroines made famous in the works of Ancient Greek poets and writers like Homer. As the author, Louisa Menzies, put it, A LITTLE book bearing as its title "Lives of the Greek Heroines" seems scarcely to require a word of introduction. The women who have been made famous by the genius of Homer, of Aeschylus, and of Sophocles, have so stamped their noble and vigorous nature into the literature of Europe that their names have a familiar ring in the verses, even of the modern poet. Menzies work does not aim solely to embellish or mythologize the Greek heroines, however. Menzies notes in the Preface, To have entered on the field of comparative mythology, however inviting it may look, would have been foreign to the purpose with which the work was undertaken, which was to show that, whatever ideas they might or might not embody, to the poets who sung of them, the Greek Heroines were as really and as truly women, with minds to think and hearts to feel, as Portia and Lady Macbeth were to Shakespeare. This edition of Lives of the Greek Heroines is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and illustrations.
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Lives of the Greek Heroines, published in the late 19th century, tells the tales of the Greek heroines made famous in the works of Ancient Greek poets and writers like Homer. As the author, Louisa Menzies, put it, A LITTLE book bearing as its title "Lives of the Greek Heroines" seems scarcely to require a word of introduction. The women who have been made famous by the genius of Homer, of Aeschylus, and of Sophocles, have so stamped their noble and vigorous nature into the literature of Europe that their names have a familiar ring in the verses, even of the modern poet. Menzies work does not aim solely to embellish or mythologize the Greek heroines, however. Menzies notes in the Preface, To have entered on the field of comparative mythology, however inviting it may look, would have been foreign to the purpose with which the work was undertaken, which was to show that, whatever ideas they might or might not embody, to the poets who sung of them, the Greek Heroines were as really and as truly women, with minds to think and hearts to feel, as Portia and Lady Macbeth were to Shakespeare. This edition of Lives of the Greek Heroines is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and illustrations.

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