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Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1497657296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOld enemies return as a mysterious prophecy unfolds in the third Dragon’s Gold book from the authors of Serpent’s Silver. When his two deadliest enemies join forces to take revenge on him, Kelvin is trapped in the distant Frame World and must escape in order to save the woman he loves, who carries their unborn child.
Author: Amelia LaRoche
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011-08
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 161228194X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Greeks believed monsters lurked on land, underwater, in the sky, and below Earth’s surface in the Underworld. Many tales tell of the Greek heroes who faced them. Plays, poems, paintings, and sculptures commemorating these tales have survived for centuries—and artists in all genres include them in their works. One of ancient mythology’s most horrible monsters was a fire-breathing lion with a snake for a tail and a goat’s head rising from the middle of her back. The Chimaera wreaked havoc in her native land by snatching up and eating livestock and people. It wasn’t until a young warrior named Bellerophon tamed another creature born from a monster—a huge flying horse—that this three-headed beast could be stopped. Read a version of the Chimaera myth, and learn a little about how this wild and unlikely story might have come to be.
Author: Darrell Arlynn Amyx
Publisher: ASCSA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780876615287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo important contributions to Greek pottery studies. Aftermath, by D. A. Amyx, is a catalogue of material supplementing his work in Corinth VII.2 but found after the cutoff of 1969 or omitted for some other reason. This article and Corinth VII.2 together stand as a full compilation of painters at present represented in the collection of the Corinth Excavations. The Chimaera Group at Corinth and Dodwellians in the Potters' Quarter are both by Patricia Lawrence. The first is a thoughtful analysis of this group of painters, based on a close examination of material found in the excavations at Corinth but including attributed pieces from other sites. The second studies 15 new fragments and reexamines material previously published in Corinth XV.3, demonstrating that the Geladakis Painter, as well as several Dodwellians, are represented there.
Author: Daniel Ogden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-04-08
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0199323747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons featured are well known: the Hydra, slain by Heracles; the Dragon of Colchis, the guardian of the golden fleece overcome by Jason and Medea; and the great sea-serpent from which Perseus rescues Andromeda. But the less well known dragons are often equally enthralling, like the Dragon of Thespiae, which Menestratus slays by feeding himself to it in armor covered in fish-hooks, or the lamias of Libya, who entice young men into their striking-range by wiggling their tails, shaped like beautiful women, at them. The texts are arranged in such a way as to allow readers to witness the continuity of and evolution in dragon stories between the Classical and Christian worlds, and to understand the genesis of saintly dragon-slaying stories of the sort now characteristically associated with St George, whose earliest dragon-fight concludes the volume. All texts, a considerable number of which have not previously been available in English, are offered in new translations and accompanied by lucid commentaries that place the source-passages into their mythical, folkloric, literary, and cultural contexts. A sampling of the ancient iconography of dragons and an appendix on dragon slaying myths from the ancient Near East and India, particularly those with a bearing upon the Greco-Roman material, are also included. This volume promises to be the most authoritative sourcebook on this perennially fascinating and influential body of ancient myth.
Author: Ralph Dodds
Publisher: Crowood
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 184797998X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor nearly sixty years, TVR produced some of the most thrilling, spine-tingling, hand-built sports cars to emerge from any British motor manufacturer. Yet it was the period between 1981 and 2004, under the management of Peter Wheeler, when the company finally shook off its shed-built roots and proved that it could produce cars that could match anything from Maranello or Stuttgart in terms of performance, but at a fraction of their price. Illustrated with over 300 photographs, TVR - Cars of the Peter Wheeler Era tells the story of the design, development and engineering of some of TVR's fastest, outrageous and most successful cars, from the retro-styled S1, to the racing Tuscan, 1000bhp Speed Twelve and the brutal Sagaris.
Author: David Drake
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2007-04-03
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1429911743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Fortress of Glass by David Drake is the first in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude the epic Lord of the Isles series. A true trilogy, the action extends over the whole three-book arc. The Fortress of Glass begins the story of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into being by the group of heroes and heroines who have been central to all the books in the series. The group includes Prince Garric, heir to the throne of the Isles, his consort Liane, his sister Sharina, her herculean sweetheart Cashel, his sister Ilna, with her adopted child Merota and piratical Chalcus. On giant triremes filled with soldiers and diplomats, they journey to the small kingdoms of the Isles to confirm the succession of Garric and to subdue, if necessary, any local rulers too fond of their own kingship to pledge fealty to Garric. All this is being done in a time when the powers of magic in the Isles have flooded to a thousand-year peak, and even local magicians can perform powerful spells normally beyond their control. Fantastic forces from all angles try to keep them apart and unable to continue the reunification of the Isles. So separately and together, they must fight their way back to the same time and place to combat the mysterious and supernatural menace of The Green Woman in her Fortress of Glass. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: George T. Singley IV
Publisher:
Published: 2008-09-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906103903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe golden to modern age of super heroes and sci-fi is unleashed into gaming in the amazing Chimaera Universe RPG! This 240-page lavishly illustrated Rulebook captures the expansive world of the Chimaera Super Hero Universe as imagined and created by fan favorite and prolific comic book creator/writer George T Singley and his Chimaera Studios. The Chimaera Universe Core Rulebook has been designed to provide everything a player needs at a reasonable price, while the growing range of supplements enhance the game to unlimited heroic ends! Exhaustively researched and developed, The Chimaera Universe Roleplaying Game lets players and the Director immerse themselves completely into the world of the greatest super heroes of all time and the most nefarious villains to ever endanger the planet! Strap on that cape, pull up that cowl, slide on those power gauntlets, and hide behind that mask... It's up to you to be a Hero!
Author: Mario Iozzo
Publisher: Edizioni Polistampa
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis translated catalog was produced for the title exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, held July 16, 2009-February 8, 2010. Iozzo (National Archeological Museum, Florence) and the Getty's senior curator of antiquities describe their collaboration for the loan of this large Etruscan bronze chimera dating to the 5th century B.C., its 16th century discovery in Arezzo, symbolism of the mythical creature, and place in classical art and Medici history.
Author: Eric Lustbader
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-07-19
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780312872366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spell that combines Annon Ashera's male psyche and Riane's female body also releases demons that the friends must defeat while still trying to open the Storehouse Door.
