Tag: Orpheus

Free Download Orpheus and Eurydice in Myth, History, and Analytical Psychology: Loss, Longing, and Self-Awareness
by Terence Dawson
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032857307 | 207 Pages | True PDF | 2.58 MB

Free Download Orpheus and Eurydice in Myth, History, and Analytical Psychology: Loss, Longing, and Self-Awareness
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032857307 | 192 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth. In the last 2,000 years, it has captivated the imagination of successive ages. Writers and other artists have turned to it to explore unexpectedly diverse concerns, from classical philosophy, through Christian values, to challenges involving individual psychology and societal well-being.

Free Download The Argonautika by Orpheus: Writing Pre-Homeric Poetry in Late Antiquity (Mnemosyne, Supplements) by Alexandra Maria Madela
English | December 6, 2024 | ISBN: 9004713840 | True PDF | 272 pages | 2.3 MB
Is it possible to be better than Homer? For most literary critics in late antiquity, the answer was an unequivocal no, but the anonymous author of the Argonautika by Orpheus disagreed.

Free Download Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet"
English | 2012 | pages: 138 | ISBN: 0359819567, 0819551597 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
The fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written by Rilke in February 1922, in less than two weeks. Their central themes are Orpheus and his song of praise; what is sung is "Dasein", "being- here", the presence in the world. Rilke considered as a betrayal of his poetry any translation that would not reproduce, together with his thinking, his internal movement, his rhythm, his rhymes, his music. The goal of the translator has been to make that orchestration "heard" as much as possible, to try and reproduce the structure, rhyme and rhythm, of Rilke’s Sonnets, in order for these translations to sound as echoes of the originals.