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Sinossi
Come Zeus, sotto forma di toro bianco, rapì la principessa Europa; come Teseo abbandonò Arianna; come Dioniso violò Aura; come Apollo fu servo di Admeto, per amore; come il simulacro di Elena si ritrovò, insieme a quello di Achille, nell'isola di Leukè; come Erigone si impiccò; come Coronis, incinta di Apollo, lo tradì con un mortale; come le Danaidi tagliarono la testa ai loro sposi; come Achille uccise Pentesilea e si congiunse con lei; come Oreste lottò con la follia; come Demetra vagò alla ricerca della figlia Core; come Core guardò Ade e si vide riflessa negli occhi di lui; come Giasone morì, colpito da una trave della nave Argo; come Fedra smaniò invano per Ippolito; come gli Olimpi scesero a Tebe per partecipare alle nozze di Cadmo e Armonia...
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- Pagine: 487
- Data di uscita: 13-07-2004
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The most profound books that I have ever read have left me speechless, even stammering. Such is the case with Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony , which I have put down no more than fifteen minutes ago. Here is a book about why myths exist, and why Ancient Greece continues to have s Leggi tutto
Zeus is never ridiculous. Because his dignity is of no concern to him. "Non bene convemunt nee in una sede morantur / Maiestas et amor," says Ovid Any sane reader would find this book ridiculous at least in parts, but that doesn’t concern Calasso, for his subject is Zeus and Zeus is never ridiculous. Leggi tutto
I've read this book cover to cover 3 times since I bought it in 1993. It's the best book I've ever read on Greek mythology. Actually, it's more of an extended (and unfailingly brilliant) meditation on Greek mythology, rather than a summary or "explanation." Calasso is some kind of genius: he's not on Leggi tutto
” Ma com'era cominciato tutto? Se si vuole storia, è storia della discordia. E la discordia nasce dal ratto di una fanciulla, o dal sacrificio di una fanciulla. E l'uno trapassa continuamente nell'altro. “ Si comincia da un ratto, un rapimento: Europa rapita da un toro emerso dal mare. Un destino t Leggi tutto
4.5 I only had one random ass thought that made me make sense of this meandering, chaotic, brilliant book: language was given to us when the gods finally withdrew from the world; when the full presence withdrew, literature ushered in. We could make music from Zeus' sinews, which Cadmus could only pre Leggi tutto
No, Socrates himself cleared up the point shortly before his death: we enter the mythical when we enter the realm of risk, and myth is the enchantment we generate in ourselves at such moments. Endorsements on the back matter can be daunting. How do we explain our struggles or indifference with work w Leggi tutto
What can one write about a book which defies all definition? For Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is such a book. It could be called a treatise on Greek mythology; a creative retelling of the Greek myths; and I think it has also been pigeonholed as a novel. It is all of these, an Leggi tutto
It has rarely happened to me, even with those books I've read and have rated very high here at goodreads. But here it did: I feel resistance giving my copy of this book away. Very unusual for me considering my habit of disposing of books I'm done with, even those I liked a lot, impelled by the logic Leggi tutto
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