![]() ![]() Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death and in The Eumenides, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "The fear of violence is already a daily reality for transgender people, and bills like these could very well make it unsafe for trans people to go out in public if they become law," the ACLU said in 2016.Ī protester in Cambridge holds up a sign saying "Defend the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill, Defend Trans Rights" after the bill was blocked by the UK government. Responding to a Texas bathroom bill in 2015, The Advocate reported that "there has never been a verifiable, reported instance of a trans person harassing a cisgender person" in a public restroom, and neither has there been a confirmed report of "male predators 'pretending' to be transgender to gain access to women's spaces and commit crimes against them."Īdvocates argue that these discriminatory bills don't make anyone safer, but do endanger trans people. There's also no evidence that legal gender recognition is dangerous to women, despite the past decade's panicked introduction of "bathroom bills," a type of law that bans trans people from using public restrooms which don't align with the gender they were assigned at birth. ![]() 'There has never been a verifiable, reported instance of a trans person harassing a cisgender person' in a public restroom. ![]() JK Rowling at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore in 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The one Constantine attempts to summon as a countermeasure is born of arrogance and naivety, and for his sins (it doesn't go well for his mates or the girl) John is condemned to two years in Ravenscar's Secure Facility For The Dangerously Deranged, and hell thereafter. In the first chapter here, "Newcastle: A Taste Of Things To Come", the demon that arises is subconsciously triggered by a little girl after months or even years of routine sexual abuse at the hands of her father and his friends, and the demon's developed a taste for it himself, sodomising one of John's friends. Memory is very much at the forefront for the second HELLBLAZER book from the late 1980s. I wouldn't have given him credit for such subtlety - but these words touch me as precisely as a dentist's steel probing the exposed pulp of a molar nerve." "Remember Newcastle, he said, and slapped me with a sudden chill of anger which now grows tentacles through me, like cancer, or death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also the Scarecrow is on the verge or releasing a new fear toxin over the whole of Gotham. This is causing their genetic to be overwritten to the Joker's complete with his memories. Five individuals have been infect by the Joker's modified blood. The story the Joker is dead, for months there has been a power struggle in Gotham to fill the void he left. With just the right touch of his bossy controlling nature driving a wedge between him and his younger partners. He is methodical, practical, logical and always prepared. He does not just jump into situations is has a plan a,b,c all the way to z. The best thing about this book is Marv Wolfman wrote Batman spot on. This book is a lot better than it's prequel the Riddler's Gambit. However there are plenty clues along the way that anyone would a decent knowledge of the Bat family to story is going and who is the Arkham a Knight. For spoiler reason I an not going to say which one. The book is based on one of my favourite Batman stories. This is set in the game continuity, the have loosely refer to fact from the main DC universe, which they have tweaked for the purposes of this story. ![]() There are touches in the writing where a Batman switches between targeting and stealth mode, or "detective lenses" which are right out of the game and fits perfectly with the game play. It is very fast paced, I am not a gamer any more, but I talked to you younger cousin about the story points of the game snd they are very similar. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was the only thing that went through my head when the woman who gave birth to me punched the doorbell five times in a row, clutching the back of my shirt like she was disposing of some punk who’d TP’d her house on her neighbor’s doorstep. This is the last time you ever cry in your life, shithead. “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” To monsters everywhere, and to sword-yielding Pang and Jan. Sam Brennan is not the only monster in this story. My name is Aisling Fitzpatrick, and I have a confession to make. Once our story unfolded, and the truth came to light, I was the one to cut the cord. Sam and I were only allowed to love each other in the dark. ![]() I wanted to feed it, domesticate it, understand it. ![]() When other kids stayed awake at night fearing the pointy-toothed beast hiding in their closet, I longed to see mine. ![]() Maybe it was always my destiny to fall in love with a monster. The most important thing I’d ever read was scribbled on the door of a portable restroom, engraved into plastic at a carnival on the outskirts of Boston. But that night at the carnival, when you showed me who you were, I figured out who I wanted to be.” “Maybe we were never meant for each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its capitulary reveals links with continental gospel books and their liturgical use. The design of its elegant canon tables represents one of the earliest surviving Insular uses of arcade frames to organize the columns of indexing numbers (Eusebian sections). ![]() Its interlinear gloss, along with the colophon, was added in the 10th century in Old English, the earliest English translation of the gospels. Its gospel text is among the best and most complete of surviving early examples of the Vulgate version of the gospels. Its scale, ambition, and quality of execution tell of the resources, power, and prestige of Christianity in early 8th-century Northumbria. Nearly every aspect of the Lindisfarne Gospels is notable. A national treasure of Great Britain, the manuscript is now kept at the British Library in London, where it is identified by its shelfmark, Cotton MS Nero D.IV. ![]() It is widely accepted, based on its 10th-century colophon, to have been made at the monastery on Lindisfarne (Holy Island) in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, during the episcopacy of Eadfrith (698–721). The Lindisfarne Gospels is a large format, splendidly decorated manuscript presenting the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the first four books of the New Testament, introduced by canon tables, prefatory texts, a capitulary, carpet pages, evangelist portraits with symbols, and large decorated incipits. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Narrator of the story spares no one from criticism and mockery. I have never read Gogol but I found humor to be very rewarding considering the subject matter is supposedly about dead serfs and bureaucratic fraud. U/trailname and u/Chaplin7 have already pointed to the satire and dark humor that greet the reader from the start of the book. Off course, the best translation is the one that the reader can comprehend and enjoy. This blog post compares some translations. ![]() There are multiple English translations available and unfortunately even the greatest translation will fail to capture all the subtle word play or character descriptions from the original Russian. ![]() ![]() And yet 10 centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. ![]() Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization - one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds - the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire - into remarkably similar societies and states. Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. ![]() ![]() Don't miss Hester Fox's next novel, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library. But with menacing forces unwilling to rest, threatening to tear her family apart, Lydia must learn to harness her newly discovered power or risk losing everyone she holds dear. The sprawling history of Willow Hall is no stranger to secrets, and its dark past soon calls to Lydia, igniting ancient magic she never knew she possessed. The works of Edgar Allan Poe play a key role in The Widow Of Pale Harbor. ![]() I envisioned a tumultuous love story, filled with dark and chilling happenings that would reflect the striking landscape. The Salem witch trials cast a long shadow over the Montrose family as the cloying heat of summer in Massachusetts mingles with something sinister in the air. This architecturally unique mansion was built in 1807 along the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset, Maine. But bone-chilling noises in the night have Lydia convinced their idyllic new home wasn’t exactly vacant when they arrived. ![]() Rocked by rumor and scandal, Lydia, her parents, and her sisters, Catherine and Emeline, fled their sparkling life in Boston for the sleepy country estate. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. New Oldbury, 1821 The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me… Something has awakened in Willow Hall. ![]() "Steeped in Gothic eeriness."-Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling author In Salem, they burned. ![]() ![]() Bellamy`s novel gained so much attention after it was published, Gronlund stopped the distribution of his work and endorsed Bellamy`s vision as the means to a new socialist society. Although his fictional story in Looking Backward is unique, Bellamy owes much of the philosophy behind his vision to an earlier social reformer and author, Laurence Gronlund, who published his treatise The Cooperative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Modern Socialism in 1884. ![]() Bellamy called this philosophy Nationalism. In this utopian world, loyalty to the solidarity of the state holds the society together. Looking Backward, certainly considered by many as within the genre of utopian fiction, anticipates a future America (the year 2000) of nationalized industry, equal distribution of wealth and the destruction of class divisions-this vision counters the problems Bellamy saw with his contemporary society. ![]() The novel became so popular that by 1900 only Uncle Tom`s Cabin had sold more copies. Although he published four novels and several essays in his lifetime, he is remembered most for his 1888 work Looking Backward, 2000-1887 and it was this novel which influenced the formation of the Nationalist political movement and several accompanying utopian living experiments during the 1890`s. Son and grandson of Baptist ministers, Bellamy studied law and worked briefly in the newspaper industry in New York and in Springfield, Massachusetts. A biography of Edward Bellamy (1850-1897)Įdward Bellamy was born Main Chicoppee Falls, Massachusetts. ![]() |