ACHERON

ăkˈərŏn: see Hades.

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books on: Acheron  - 764 results

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Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as Part of Christian Literature: The Case of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
Book by M. De Jonge; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Apocryphal Books (Old Testament)--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Life Of Adam And Eve--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc
...In the second part of the chapter it is compared to other Christian traditions about the Acherusian Lake and the river Acheron, influenced in turn by various Greek notions. And finally, chapter 13, like the last chapter in the preceding part, deals with...
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Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names
Book by Michael Paschalis; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Latin Language--Semantics, Names, Personal, In Literature, Names, Personal--Rome, Virgil--Aeneis
...former, 1 and Junos dolor with the laetitia of the Trojans. In 7. 312 Juno decides to employ the services of the Powers of Acheron A in order to erase Aeneas , 2 while here she will soon resort to the services of Aeolus. Another implied...
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Dying Adam with His Multiethnic Family: Understanding the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
Book by Michael D. Eldridge; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Life Of Adam And Eve--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc
...on Adam (37.1-2) Adam is washed in Lake Acheron and taken up to the third heaven 137...were placed in the aerial region, Lake Acheron, where the souls of the righteous are...ascent to be washed in the heavenly Lake Acheron immediately after being pardoned by God...
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Inferno III
Book by Maria Picchio Simonelli, Patrick Creagh, Robert Hollander, Dante Alighieri; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
Subjects: Dante Alighieri--1265-1321--Inferno--Canto 3, Poetry
...7 Toward the Acheron 59...steps Upon the mournful shore of Acheron." 78 At this, with eyes cast down...Aeneid the Underworld, Charon, and the Acheron are all undoubtedly classical images...
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Early Christianity and Classical Culture: Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe
Book by John T. Fitzgerald, Thomas H. Olbricht, L. Michael White; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Bible--N.T--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Christianity And Other Religions--Greek, Christianity And Other Religions--Roman
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journal articles on: Acheron  - 27 results

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12. Lowell's in Memory of Arthur Winslow, Movements I and IV
Journal article by Stanley M. Wiersma; The Explicator, Vol. 30, 1971
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...careful not to take the reference to the Acheron (next to the last line of Movement I...departed across the Styx, not across the Acheron. When he dies, Arthur Winslow will have crossed the Styx, but must still cope with Acheron, the River of Woes, and perhaps even...
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Falling for Dante: The Inferno in Albert Camus's la Chute
Journal article by Harriet Hustis; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 40, 2007
Subjects: Authors--Works, Camus, Albert--Works, La Chute (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...leaves, descend the banks of the river Acheron to embark upon their foggy boat-ride with...Charon thus denies Dante passage across the Acheron, cautioning him to "partiti da cotesti...Hells vestibule are unable to cross the Acheron because of their failure to choose (a...
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To Hell and Back: Sartre on (and in) Analysis with Freud
Journal article by Peter Caws; Sartre Studies International, Vol. 11, 2005
Subjects: Criticism, Father and child, Father-child relations, French literature--Criticism and interpretation, Freud, Sigmund--Works, Literary criticism, Psychoanalytic criticism, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Criticism and interpretation
...Aeneid Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo. (If I cannot bend the higher powers, I will stir up Acheron one of the rivers of Hades.) --Virgil...symptom-formation by: Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo." (3) "Introite et hic dii sunt...
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Vexilla Regis Prodeunt:(1) Myth and Allusion in out of Ireland
Journal article by Noel Henricksen; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, 2001
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Literature--Technique, Out of Ireland (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political prisoners--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...unwilling to ferry a living man across the Acheron, while Ralph is reluctant to row a gentleman...Kinane, finds himself drowning- in the Acheron-squalor of the Rivulet - the hand extended...region of the dead (161), crosses the Acheron (213), walks the streets of Hell, and...
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Mapping the Labyrinth: The Ur-Anathemata of David Jones
Journal article by Tom Goldpaugh; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 51, 1999
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jones, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Labyrinths--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Space and time in literature--Analysis
...Is Cothi of the quick-set hedge sad / Acheron" (RQ 14; Ms. 66E). The references to Cocytus and Acheron are the last to the classical world. Leaving...the underworld rivers of the Cocytus and Acheron. Leaving the Celtic and returning to the...
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magazine articles on: Acheron  - 8 results

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Second Comings
Magazine article by Stuart Klawans; The Nation, Vol. 277, December 15, 2003
Subjects: 21 Grams (Motion picture), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Motion picture)
...where the crew of the H.M.S. Surprise is lying in wait for a Napoleonic privateer, the Acheron. After a disastrous first engagement, the Surprise pursues the Acheron around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean. There, whenever Captain Jack Aubrey...
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Small Wonders: Richard Cork Is Transported into the Miniature Worlds of Renaissance Manuscripts
Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 132, January 12, 2004
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Exhibitions, Art--United Kingdom, Book and manuscript illumination--Exhibitions, Illumination of books and manuscripts--Exhibitions, Royal Academy of Arts (London, England)--Exhibitions
...is at his most arresting in The Beast Acheron: devourer of the avaricious. Infra-red...started out painting a mountain next to Acheron, whose titanic mouth gapes open to reveal...blackness, thereby focusing our attention on Acherons fiery furnace. Two attenuated victims...
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The Voice Impersonator
Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 22, March 2004
...death closes our apparently Moving naked over Acheron Upon the one...One raft on the veiled flood of Acheron, Marius and Jugurtha together...
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Understanding Dante
Magazine article by Sharon Coolidge; The Christian Century, Vol. 123, September 19, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History (Book)--Book reviews, Understanding Dante (Book)--Book reviews
...annoying, among them rapid shifts from the past to the present (from Virgil to Martin Luther King Jr., from Dantes crossing of Acheron to T. S. Eliots first marriage) and paragraphs that begin with one idea and end with another. As a scholar Scott has lived...
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Salvation & 'The Sopranos': Redemption in New Jersey?
Magazine article by Cathleen Kaveny; Commonweal, Vol. 134, February 9, 2007
Subjects: Redemption--Analysis, Salvation--Analysis, Television programs--Criticism and interpretation, The Sopranos (Television program)--Criticism and interpretation
...Rome, but pagan Rome. In book 6 of the Aeneid, Virgil recounts Aeneass visit to the underworld, the realm of the dead. Here, Acheron, the river of grief, its "whirlpool thick with sludge, its giant eddy seething, vomits all of its swirling sand into Cocytus...
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newspaper articles on: Acheron  - 24 results

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Mystical Dream Is a Reality
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 4, 2006
Subjects: Online shopping
...brought to life the mythical Island of Acheron and its inhabitants The Morinacs. Their...villages on the north of the Island of Acheron. As well as selling the figures online...leprechaun-like figures that became the keepers of Acheron." The launch of the online shop is the...
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CROWE AT THE HELM; His Complex iCommander' Mans Heroic, Fresh Sea Tale
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 14, 2003
Subjects: Crowe, Russell, Weir, Peter
...to hunt an elusive French raider, the Acheron, which introduces itself with a ferocious...midshipmen to seasoned officers. In the Acheron they even face a kind of monster: a mirror-image...extended cat-and-mouse pursuit of the Acheron is spearheaded by Russell Crowes redoubtable...
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Getting into Books, with Extreme Malice
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, January 27, 2002
...daffodils. Enter the villain of the piece, Acheron Hades, up against whom Thursday - one...will go in the books dramatic action. Acheron, a former professor of Thursdays in college...the character-kidnapping game is that if Acheron can extricate a character from the original...
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Oscar Contender Masters Sea Drama
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 7, 2004
...capture, burn or sink the French warship the Acheron. This assignment takes Aubrey - also known...clashes twice with the enemy ship; the Acheron soundly defeats Aubrey and his crew both...help Aubrey in his quest to capture the Acheron. The two friends share a love for music...
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'Master' a Commanding Swashbuckler
Newspaper article by Jeff Tuckman; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 23, 2004
...Sound Editing and Cinematography. In 1805, Capt. Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) receives orders to capture the French warship Acheron. It is bigger, faster and has more artillery than his ship, the HMS Surprise. The pursuit becomes a game of nautical cat and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Acheron  - 2 results

 
 
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Acheron
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACHERON ak ron: see Hades . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hades
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...beyond the inhabited regions. It was separated from the land of the living by the rivers Styx hateful, Lethe forgetfulness, Acheron woeful, Phlegethon fiery, and Cocytus wailing. The newly arrived dead were ferried across the Styx by the avaricious old ferryman...


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