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Uma epopeia portuguesa setecentista inédita, mas não ignorada, em décimas bem ritmadas, cujo autor, Isaac Samuda, é um dos judeus de talento que o fantasma da Inquisição chegou a aprisionar por um tempo e ameaçava persegui-lo de novo, pelo que teve de emigrar, é o livro que temos o gosto de aqui apresentar.

A obra era inédita, conforme dissemos, mas não se desconhecia a sua existência, porquanto várias publicações, entre as quais o Dicionário de Inocêncio, haviam falado dela. Tão-pouco o era a figura do seu herói, tantas vezes enaltecida ao longo dos séculos, nomeadamente na célebre epopeia de Brás Garcia Mascarenhas, Viriato Trágico, que é anterior a esta.

Do autor das Viríadas, Isaac Samuda, também se conheciam dados significativos, para além dos já mencionados: bacharel em Artes, estuda Medicina na Universidade de Coimbra, e, devido

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Epic literature. --- Literature

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This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth century. Alongside his story, multiple other shorter narratives are told and many other voices are heard, making it a rich and varied account of the poet's views of heroism, conflict, loyalty and the human condition. The poem is widely taught in schools and universities, and has been adapted, modernized, and translated dozens of times, but this is the first large-scale polyvocal translation. Readers will encounter the voices of over two-hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation. We hope that it turns the common question "Why do we need yet another translation?" on its head, asking instead, "How can we hear from more translators?," and "How can previously unheard, or marginalised voices, find space, like this, in the world of Old English Studies?" With this in mind we invite a new generation of readers to try their own hand at translating Beowulf in the workbook space provided opposite this community translation. It is often through the effort of translating that we see the reality of the original.

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Epic poetry, English (Old)

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"Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was to capture the imagination of his contemporaries and future generations. His image abounds in various cultures and literatures - Eastern and Western - and spread around the globe through oral and literary media at an astonishing rate during late antiquity and the early Islamic period. The first Iskandarnama, or 'The Book of Alexander', now held in a private collection in Tehran, is the oldest prose version of the Alexander romance in the Persian tradition. Thought to have been written at some point between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries by an unknown author, the lively narrative recasts Alexander as Iskandar, a Muslim champion - a king and prophet, albeit flawed but heroic, and remarkably appropriated to Islam, though the historic Alexander lived and died some 1,000 years before the birth of the faith. This new English translation of the under-studied text is the first to be presented unabridged and sheds fresh light onto the shape and structure of this vital document.In so doing it invites a reconsideration of the transformation of a Western historical figure - and one-time mortal enemy of Persia - into a legendary hero adopted by Iranian historiographic myth-making. Evangelos Venetis, the translator, also offers a textual analysis, providing much-needed context and explanations on both content and subsequent reception. This landmark publication will be invaluable to students and scholars of classical Persian literature, ancient and medieval history and Middle East studies, as well as to anyone studying the Alexander tradition."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Epic literature, Persian. --- Alexander,

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This work concerns the wanderings of Odysseus, from the fall of Troy to his return to Ithaca in books five to thirteen in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. It provides a reliable and readable translation of substantial parts of those books and a summary of the remaining parts, together with in-depth literary analysis intended to enhance critical appreciation and plain enjoyment of what is the most famous and appealing segment of Homer's epic. The book also includes exercises, topics for investigation and references to other scholars and classical authors in order to extend the reader's engagement with The Odyssey.

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Epic poetry, Greek.

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Roald Hoffmann's fourth collection of poetry, Soliton, brings the full scope of his outlook-he writes of nature and bittersweet love, and on Jewish themes and his Holocaust survival. His poems are sometimes funny and always carefully observed and reflective. His work is intriguing, mysterious, ambitious, and accomplished.

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Epic poetry, American. --- American epic poetry --- American poetry