Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid
Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid

Author: Graham Zanker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-13

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1009319868

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This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way that Jupiter and Aeneas can assent to the world fate in which they have discovered they must play a part, or Juno and Dido can withhold their assent to it. Indeed, Virgil even offers the model to no-one less than Augustus: the emperor is invited to give his assent to ruling what was believed to be his 'world-wide' empire justly. The book is accessible to both students and professional scholars of the Aeneid, with all Greek and Latin translated into idiomatic English.

Twist of Fate
Twist of Fate

Author: D.A. Henneman

Publisher: Saray Books LLC

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1735360252

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Fate’s blindness doesn’t prevent her from seeing the future, but her visions don’t always agree on the best way to get there. Spirits who once guided Fate are silent while dark energy leaches across Wisteria. She once had control over all destinies, but now is helpless as mystical creatures die. Without the internal voices to guide her, she is afraid of her own path for the first time in her immortal life. She and her two sisters represent Past, Present, and Future. They struggle to maintain the balance in a land intrinsically connected to Earth. Their magick must be combined to defeat a growing evil that transcends time, but at what cost to the nature than binds us? Loyalty to the men they love battles their divine purpose. In a universe where all energies are connected, the corruption of one can spell devastation. Fate’s blindness mustn’t prevent her from finding the light. It will be the only way the earth will survive the darkness. Twist of Fate is the prequel to the Power of Four series, and is a dark fantasy where the characters dabble with destiny and learn there is a price for manipulating magick. Sometimes HEAs can only come long after sacrifices are made. Find out where the story began! The Complete Series: Prequel: Twist of Fate (Dark Fantasy lead into series) Novelette: The Jinni’s Wish (Fantasy Short) Book One: Sea of Dreams Book Two: Winds of Change Book Three: Playing with Fire Book Four: Heaven on Earth

The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1
The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1

Author: Keith Herber

Publisher: Chaosium Inc.

Published: 2003-09

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1568821441

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[CALL OF CTHULHU ROLEPLAYING] The Keeper's Companion is an invaluable resource for gamemasters. The material includes advice for new keepers, a lengthy study of Mythos artifacts, a learned discussion of many occult books, an up-to-the-moment description of every facet of forensic medicine, a thorough revision and expansion of the game skills (including nearly two dozen new ones), and the entire text of The Keeper's Compendium, somewhat updated -- forbidden books, secret cults, alien races, and mysterious places. Additional short essays and features round out this book -- more than 100,000 words!

Celaeno's Fate
Celaeno's Fate

Author: Lacey Carter Andersen

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781072078302

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Everyone hates a harpy...For the record, I don't drag people to Hades. I'm not a guardian of the Underworld. And I'm not an evil monster. I'm just... a shifter who happens to control birds. Dangerous? Yes. A monster? No.Unfortunately, most people disagree with me. For some stupid reason.So, it's no surprise when monster hunters, the stoic gargoyles themselves, track me down. What is a surprise? The gargoyles are kind of sexy.But unfortunately, they haven't kidnapped me for bedroom fun. They want to use my abilities to stop a curse and save a town. Easy right? It's actually pretty damn hard. And then there's the other thing, I'm starting to think after my long life, this little adventure might just be the thing that kills.CELAENO'S FATE is a reverse harem romance with a lot of action, steam, and adventure. It's also a #whychoose romance, meaning the heroine doesn't need to choose between her love interests. (This was previously published in Shifting Destiny but includes a ton of bonus scenes, including POV scenes from all the gargoyles!)

The Dawn of Magick
The Dawn of Magick

Author: Benjamin Towe

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-05-27

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 1434376958

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The Dawn of Magick is the first story of Donothor. The tragic fantasy chronicles the lives and deeds of many ilks of the world Sagain. Threads of fate and Magick intertwine the doomed world of sorcery with three other worlds. When the story begins, Sagain is a pastoral mundane world dominated by preternatural beings called Old Ones. Nature's most powerful forces foment a cataclysm and kindle the flicker of Magick. The flicker grows into a blaze and creates great artifacts. The power of Magick descends along family lines. As sorcerers live longer and grow more powerful, greed and competition lead to conflict. Orders of Light and Dark Sorcery choose leaders and allies, create citadels and seven fantastic wonders, and rip Sagain and its people through their ageless conflict. Spells cast by avaricious sorcerers bring forces of evil to Sagain. This begins a conflict that stretches across space and time. Powerful spells enable the imprisonment of consummate evil and facilitate the escape of a fortunate few from the doomed world. What is the source of Magick? What are the powers of the thirteen and two staves? What roles have the mysterious Old Ones, the old wanderer Confusious, Iyaca Vassi, and the Orders of Light and Dark Sorcery in the story? Does only evil lurk behind the dark walls of Koorlost, the citadel of Dark Sorcery? Does only good reside within the alabaster walls of the Laurels and its Tower of Radiance, the citadel of Light Sorcery? Are dragons, the great wyrms of the skies, good or evil? What threads connect four worlds? Ripples that began long ago in a doomed world create great waves in Donothor, Parallan, and...a blue world. The story continues in Deathquest to Parallan, the Orb of Chalar, the Death of Magick, and the Chalice of Mystery.

Aeneid
Aeneid

Author: Virgil

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-07-10

Total Pages: 1315

ISBN-13: 019162277X

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'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and by the torments of love, loyalty, and despair. Virgil's supreme achievement is not only to reveal Rome's imperial future for his patron Augustus, but to invest it with both passion and suffering for all those caught up in the fates of others. Frederick Ahl's new translation echoes the Virgilian hexameter in a thrillingly accurate and engaging style. An Introduction by Elaine Fantham, and Ahl's comprehensive notes and invaluable indexed glossary complement the translation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

My Little Pony: Beyond Equestria: Rainbow Dash Rights the Ship
My Little Pony: Beyond Equestria: Rainbow Dash Rights the Ship

Author: G. M. Berrow

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0316557498

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Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of fun! When Rainbow Dash invites Captain Celaeno and her crew to visit her hometown of Cloudsdale, the pirates gladly accept. They have a blast visiting Rainbow Dash, but a trip to a boring old museum isn't exactly their idea of a good time. That is, until they come to a glass case with a replica of an ancient Pegasus relic that supposedly created unending good fortune for all those near it. Now Celaeno is intrigued! Where is the real relic? Nopony knows for sure, but legend has it that somewhere in Equestria there is a map that leads the way. Calling upon her old friend Daring Do, Rainbow Dash leads the pirates on a treasure hunt like no other. This exciting original middle grade series featuring My Little Pony continues the story from the feature film! ©2018 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.

Structures of Epic Poetry
Structures of Epic Poetry

Author: Christiane Reitz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 2760

ISBN-13: 3110492598

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This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.

Madness Unchained
Madness Unchained

Author: Lee Fratantuono 2

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2007-06-07

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0739157418

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Madness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil's Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil's epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil's point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or madness in Rome's national identity. There have been other books that have attempted to present a complete guide to the Aeneid, but this is the first to address every episode in the poem, omitting nothing, and aiming itself at an audience that ranges from the Advanced Placement Virgil student in secondary school to the professional Virgilian and everyone in-between, both Latinists and the Latin-less. Individual chapters correspond to the books of the poem; unlike some volumes that prejudice the reader's interpretation of the work by rearranging the order of episodes in order to influence their impact on the audience, this book moves in the order Virgil intended, and also gives rather fuller exposition to the second half of the poem, Virgil's self-proclaimed 'greater work' (maius opus).