Aphrodite - Couverture souple

Louys, Pierre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1446509257 ISBN 13 : 9781446509258

Editeur : Read Books, 2010

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Show Excerpt er twentieth year, when from a young girl she became a woman, ambition suddenly awoke in her with maturity. And one morning as she came out of a deep sleep, two hours past mid-day, quite tired from having slept too much, she turned over on her breast across the bed, her feet apart, rested her cheek in her hand and with a long golden pin pierced with little symmetrical holes her pillow of green linen. She reflected profoundly. There were at first four little points which made a square and a point in the middle. Then four other points to make a larger square. Then she tried to make a circle--but that was a little difficult. Then she pierced points at random and began to call, "Djala! Djala!" Djala was her Hindu slave whose name was Djalantachtchandrapchapala, which means: "Changeful-as-the-image-of-the-moon-upon-the-water." Chrysis was too lazy to say the entire name. The slave entered and stood near the door without quite shutting it. "Djala, who came yesterday?

Présentation de l'éditeur

The erudite Prodicos of Ceos, who flourished toward the end of the first century before our era, is the author of the celebrated apologue which St. Basil recommended to Christian meditation: "Herakles between virtue and voluptuousness." We know that Herakles decided for the first, and was thus enabled to accomplish a certain number of great crimes against the Hinds, the Amazons, the Golden Apples and the Giants. If Prodicos had limited himself to that, he would have written only a fable of readily comprehended symbolism, but he was a clever philosopher and his repertory of tales, "The Hours," which was divided into three parts, presented the moral truths under their three different aspects which correspond to the three ages of life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1446509257
• ISBN 13: 9781446509258
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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