Marianne McDonald

Auteur de Tales of the Constellations: The Myths and Legends of the Night Sky

15+ oeuvres 135 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Marianne McDonald is Professor of Theatre and Classics at the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

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Tales of the Constellations: The Myths and Legends of the Night Sky (1996) 37 exemplaires

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (2007) — Directeur de publication — 32 exemplaires

Mythologies of the Zodiac (2000) 31 exemplaires

The Living Art of Greek Tragedy (2003) 12 exemplaires

Ancient Sun, Modern Light (1991) 6 exemplaires

Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy (Plays and Playwrights) (2002) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires

Six Greek Tragedies: Persians; Prometheus Bound; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes; Trojan Women; Bacchae (2002) — Introduction — 3 exemplaires

A Semilemmatized concordance to Euripides' Hecules Furens 2 exemplaires

Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera (Music Reference Collection,) (2001) 2 exemplaires

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature) 1 exemplaire

Then he Met a Woodcutter (2005) 1 exemplaire

Thoroughly modern Medea : does Greek tragedy speak to women? 1 exemplaire

Euripides in Cinema (1983) 1 exemplaire

Η μυθολογία των ζωδίων: Η ιστορία των αστερισμών (2002) 1 exemplaire

Ein gutes Versteck 1 exemplaire

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Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art (1997) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric (2006) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires

A Companion to Classical Receptions (2008) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires

Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema (2001) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires

The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies (2014) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires

Approaches to teaching the dramas of Euripides (2002) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires

Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature (Mnemosyne Supplements) (1994) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires

Brill's Companion to Sophocles (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2012) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires

Classics and Cinema (Bucknell Review) (1991) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires

Brill's companion to the reception of Aeschylus (2017) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires

Seamus Heaney and the classics : Bann Valley muses (2019) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

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Tales of the Constellations: The Myths and Legends… par Marianne McDonald

This isn't what I expected. It was an impulse buy when my son was interested in the stars. I thought it would be stories and myths concerning the constellations, which in a way it is. Where I was expecting just a story concerning that constellation in myth (such as how Andromeda came to be chained to a rock as a sacrifice). However, what I did get was ever so much more. Where there are no specific stories per se there's just a ton of info and beautiful artwork. I was just looking for myths to read to the kids. Instead, I found information explaining the constellation as seen through the eyes of different peoples in different times of civilizations, the roots of the myth (such as what the different aspects of the myth stand for, sort of a moral type thing) etc. I love looking at it just for the art work. But I understand a lot more about the myths now and have a renewed interest in such.… (plus d'informations)

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briarwren | Jun 27, 2008 |

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