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Orpheus
- The Song of Life
Af: Ann Wroe
Engelsk Paperback
Orpheus
- The Song of Life
Af: Ann Wroe
Engelsk Paperback

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For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men.

In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. She traces the man, and the power he represents, through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and journey to Hades, and his terrible death.

We see him tantalising Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalising the Fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death.



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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781845951689
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1845951689
Udg. Dato:
5 jul 2012
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
232mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
5 jul 2012
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