Orpheus The Song of Life  -  Ann Wroe

KORTE INHOUD

For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. She traces the man,...
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Uitgever: Jonathan Cape 262 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0224091360 ISBN-13: 9780224091367