Phallos
Title | Phallos PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel R. Delany |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0819573566 |
Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor’s favorite, Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars of Hercules to Rome, from Athens to Byzantium, and back. Young Neoptolomus searches after the stolen phallus of the nameless god of Hermopolis, crafted of gold and encrusted with jewels, within which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth. Vivid and clever, the original novella has been expanded by nearly a third. Appended to the text are an afterword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and three astute speculative essays by Steven Shaviro, Kenneth R. James, and Darieck Scott.
Phallos
Title | Phallos PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Monick |
Publisher | Inner City Books |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780919123267 |
Through close examination of the physical, physhological and mythological aspects of phallos, the author differentiates masculinity from patriarchy and discovers a mysterious, divine reality coequal with the maternal principle as an originating force in the psyche.
Phallos
Title | Phallos PDF eBook |
Author | Thorkil Vanggaard |
Publisher | International Universities PressInc |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1972-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780823681921 |
A fascinating study of the phallus as a symbol of power and dominance, this book offers an interesting thesis regarding a cultural repression of homosexuality and some challenging hypotheses concerning elemental ties between boys and older men.
Birds of the Athenian Agora
Title | Birds of the Athenian Agora PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lamberton |
Publisher | ASCSA |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780876616277 |
As well as the Little Owl or glaux, so often seen accompanying the goddess Athena, many other birds played an important role in Greek art and symbolism. This booklet describes the ways in which the Greeks viewed birds, from useful hawks and fowl to exotic parakeets and peacocks. Some of the birds most often depicted are imaginary, from the griffin to the phallos bird, whose head and neck consisted of an erect penis. The book ends with a field guide to species likely to be seen on a visit to the Agora archaeological park today.
Atlantis
Title | Atlantis PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel R. Delany |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1995-07-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780819563125 |
Three novellas by a black writer. The novella, Atlantis: Model 1924, describes the sense of wonder experienced by a 17-year-old black youth from the South on his arrival in New York, while Citre et Trans is on a black man who is raped in Greece and the effect this has on his life. By the author of Return to Neveryon.
The Encyclopedia Americana
Title | The Encyclopedia Americana PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 918 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
First Drawings
Title | First Drawings PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Fein |
Publisher | Sylvia Fein |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780917388033 |
This study is a visual ride through the primary motifs of human art. Examples show how certain basic patterns reappear, time and again, all over the world. It tries to answer the question why prehistoric art, tribal art, child art and modern art have so many design elements in common.