By Luis de Góngora
ISBN-10: 1101535369
ISBN-13: 9781101535363
An epic masterpiece of worldwide literature, in a powerful new translation via essentially the most acclaimed translators of our time.
A towering determine of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic varieties so appreciably assorted from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was once derided as "the Prince of Darkness." The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked guy who has been spurned by means of his lover. Wrenched from civilization and its attendant insanity, the desolate hero is transported right into a flora and fauna that's immediately menacing and elegant. during this attractive version Edith Grossman captures the breathtaking great thing about a piece that represents one of many excessive issues of poetic fulfillment in any language.
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He threw a curse upon the house of Atreus, thus compounding the one already laid upon it by the charioteer MYRTILUS, who had been tricked by Pelops. The children of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus, would suffer from these curses. Thyestes then consulted an oracle and was advised to beget a child upon his own daughter, Pelopia, the only one not cooked in the stew served up by Atreus. Thyestes, in disguise, seduced his daughter, who managed to wrest his sword from him. Years later, when Thyestes was a captive of Atreus, a boy of seven appeared before him bearing a sword.
Atalanta, having been warned by an ORACLE that she would find no happiness in marriage, set a condition on her marriage. Her suitor must be able to beat her in a foot-race, or else die. Many tried to win her but failed and died. Finally MELANION, a prince from Arcadia, sought the help of APHRODITE, goddess of love. She gave him three golden apples that he dropped, one at a time, throughout the race. Atalanta could not resist picking them up and lost the race. Atalanta bore Melanion a son, Parthenonpaeus.
Atalanta could not resist picking them up and lost the race. Atalanta bore Melanion a son, Parthenonpaeus. In some versions of this legend it is said that Atalanta and Melanion were turned into lions by Aphrodite and forced to pull the chariot of CYBELE, a goddess of earth and nature. It is said that Atalanta was one of the ARGONAUTS, a fabled crew of sailors who sought the GOLDEN FLEECE. ATHAMAS In Greek mythology, one of the sons of AEOLUS; brother of SISYPHUS and Salmoneus; king of Orchomenus in BOEOTIA.
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