Miller, gods and games

Gods and games; toward a theology of play. New York : World Pub. Gods and games; toward a theology of play [by] David L. Miller World Pub.

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You can view this on the NLA website. Login Register. Current search limits: Clear format limits. Advanced search Search history. Browse titles authors subjects uniform titles series callnumbers dewey numbers starting from optional. Twin sister to Apollo, the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and virginity. Angry at the bloodshed the Trojan war would cause, she stopped the winds from blowing, stranding the Greek fleet at Aulis.

After the sacrifice of Iphigenia, she was appeased and the winds returned. Athena dressing, with her armor on the floor. The powerful goddess of wisdom, weaving and war arts.

She was a fierce supporter of her beloved Greeks against the Trojans, and a particular guardian of the wily Odysseus. She appears often in both the Iliad and Odyssey. Click here to see Chiron featured as a "Myth of the Week. Queen of the gods, and sister-wife of Zeus.

Like Athena, she championed the Greeks, and hated the Trojans. The god of the river Scamander near Troy, and another champion of the Trojans. His famous battle with Achilles is told in Book 22 of the Iliad. A sea-nymph and shape-changer, mother of Achilles. The fates had prophesied that her son would be greater than his father. This frightened the god Zeus who had previously desired her , and so he made sure to marry her to a mortal, in order to limit the power of her son.

In post-Homeric versions of the story she tries a number of ways to make Achilles immortal, including dipping him by his ankle in the river Styx and holding him in a fire to burn away his mortality.

Miller has combined scholarship with imagination to turn the most familiar war epic into a fresh, emotionally riveting and sexy page-turner. Patroclus follows Achilles into battle, but it is their magnificent and very modern love story that makes this an epic. Miller plays with the historical record as established by Homer.

Talk about updating the classics. But Miller segues into that more public story with grace. Her battle scenes are tense and exciting, as the young, half-divine Achilles comes into his own. Informed by scholarship, her imagination blends seamlessly with incidents from The Iliad. In prose as clean and spare as the driving poetry of Homer, Miller captures the intensity and devotion of adolescent friendship and lets us believe in these long-dead boys for whom sea nymphs and centaurs are not legend but lived reality.

In doing so, she will make their names known to yet another generation, deepening and enriching a tale that has been told for 3, years. Return to Book Page. Preview — Gods and Games by David L. Colophon Books by David L. Get A Copy. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Gods and Games , please sign up.

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Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Colophon Books. One of the books you'll need to read to understand. View 1 comment. This is an interesting book and I'm a big believer in the importance of play in our work and in our lives. I felt I had to dig too much, though, to get to the heart of the book. The author spends a lot of time talking about the history of the concept of play rather than talking about play itself.

I found myself just slogging through those parts.