10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KATABASIS»
Discover the use of
katabasis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
katabasis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A modern-day version of the Greek myth of Kore and Demeter, in which the maiden Persephone is abducted into the underworld by the dark god Hades.
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The Mongoliad: Book One
In 1241, warriors try to stop the Mongols from invading Europe; in the nineteenth century, a group of martial artists provide a language expert with lost manuscripts to translate that chronicle their ancestors' thirteenth century battles.
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Death Metal Epic (Book One: The Inverted
Katabasis)
David Fosberg plays guitar in Valhalla. But don't worry: this is no jukebox hero saga of his rise to fame and fortune. Valhalla's a death metal band. From Florida. And the rest of the guys just quit.
Thirteenth-century Europe has been saved from annihilation at the hands of the Mongols, to be sure, but new and terrible threats are at hand: political and religious turmoil threaten to turn the warriors' world upside down once more.Painted ...
Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo, Angus Trim,
2013
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Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys: Essays by Men ...
But this is not the only experience of Pythagoras that involves a katabasis
experience. While in Crete, the philosopher, together with Epimenides, had gone
down into the cave of Ida.13 The fact that Pythagoras would have undergone
initiation ...
John Joseph Collins, Michael A. Fishbane,
1995
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A Companion to Poetic Genre
Katabasis, the descent and return of a living being into the underworld, could well
be understood in these terms: as a chemical morphosis from weight to lightness
and back again to the weight of being. To be sure, the double journey occurs in ...
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Orphan of Eternity Or the
Katabasis of the Lord Lucifer ...
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Here in the darkening streets of the city, the hours of the night have no numbers, only names.
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Orphan of Eternity: Or the
Katabasis of the Lord Lucifer Satan
Book 1-3, Below, Between, Above. This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
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A Backward Glance: The Southern Renascence, the ...
expedition into Asia Minor in the fifth century b.c.e., though the narrative really is
more concerned with its katabasis or retreat. Most important, katabasis also came
to mean the descent into the underworld so integral to ancient myth and epic ...
Joseph R. Millichap,
2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KATABASIS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
katabasis is used in the context of the following news items.
Tortorum Parts With Drummer Dirge Rep, Working On EP
Expect total fucking darkness." If you missed it, the band's full previous studio album "Katabasis" can be heard in the SoundCloud player below. «Metal Underground, Jul 15»
FIDM Graduates Its First Class of Menswear Design Students
Hall plans to launch his own line, called Katabasis. Figueroa looked to the Spanish conquistadores for his collection's inspiration. “I chose the ... «Apparel News, Jun 15»
Kinoteka 2015: 'The Hourglass Sanatorium' review
It's one-part katabasis, one-part dreamscape; it's one-part psychoanalysis, one-part poetry; it's both historical and stridently outside of time. There's little that ... «CineVue, Apr 15»
What's on in Wellington: February 26 - March 4
Thistle Hall, Cuba St. Katabasis, until Mar 1, 8pm. Back-Yard Oddity, Mar 5 and 6, 8pm. Toi Poneke, Abel Smith St. Low Noise 2, until Mar 7. «The Dominion Post, Feb 15»
What's on in Wellington: February 19 to 26
Thistle Hall, Cuba St. Katabasis, Feb 25 till Mar 1, 8pm. Toi Poneke, Abel Smith St. Low Noise 2, until Mar 7. Truby King Park, Manchester Tce. «The Dominion Post, Feb 15»
The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 6: Descent to the Underworld
In its broadest outline, the Monomyth or Hero's Journey takes the form of a descent (katabasis) into and return (anabasis) from an underworld, ... «Patheos, Jan 15»
Holidays in Hades: An Interview with the English Heretic
We've met to discuss The Underworld Service, the English Heretic's new collection charting the “katabasis” [spiritual and psychological ... «PopMatters, Jan 15»
Graham Tatomer got a taste of Austrian Riesling, and that was it
In 1999, while still studying English literature at UC Santa Barbara, he made his first wines under the label Katabasis, "Greek for the difficult ... «Los Angeles Times, Nov 14»
Low & Lower, Theatre Gigante, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Mary …
This weekend they'll join their Winston-Salem Symphony colleagues in a world premiere of Katabasis by composer Lawrence Dillon. The trio ... «WFDD, Oct 14»
Drumshanbo musician publishes first novel 'Katabasis'
The book, Katabasis (from the Greek kata, “down” and bainein, “to go”) is a journey of ashes, a descent into the underworld, a confrontation with ... «Leitrim Observer, Sep 14»