A Song for the Underworld

A Song for the Underworld
Author: Adam Alexander Haviaras
Publisher: Adam Alexander Haviaras
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2021-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198830945X

Long ago, when gods and heroes walked the earth in triumph and tragedy, true love and epic deeds were set among the stars... In the ancient land of Greece, at a time when kings warred and the people suffered, the Fates fixed their timeless eyes upon the son of a muse, and his story inspired hope and beauty in a ravaged world. Raised by the daughters of Zeus in the shadow of Mount Olympus, Orpheus is filled with a love of the world, of creation, and of song. Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he inspires mortals, birds, beasts, and even the Gods with his music. He is blessed with a humility and unmatched skill that make him the greatest musician of the age. However, when the god Apollo tells Orpheus that he has more to learn, the young man leaves the safety of his home to wander the world in search of his destiny. Having travelled alone into the vast northern forests of Thrace, Orpheus discovers that elusive gift granted to few mortals or gods: True Love. In the love and friendship of the nymph, Eurydice, Orpheus comes to understand one of the greatest mysteries of the world. He is inspired in all things, and his music reaches unimagined heights of beauty. But the Fates can be cruel, the world barbarous, and the greatest gifts given, including love, can be taken away. When Eurydice’s light is suddenly extinguished from Orpheus’ life, the musician must make a choice. He can live a life without his only love and let the world tear itself to pieces, or he can make a journey that would terrify even the bravest of heroes to rescue his love and bring her back into the light. Will Orpheus be able to cross the dark plains of the Underworld and bring Eurydice back? Or will he lose his soul, and his love, for daring to challenge the Fates? The only way he can succeed is to plumb the depths of his deepest emotions and play like he has never played before... A Song for the Underworld is an epic retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from Greek mythology. It is the third book in the Mythologia fantasy series by best-selling and award-winning author and historian, Adam Alexander Haviaras. If you enjoy books by Madeline Miller, Stephen Fry, Natalie Haynes or Jennifer Saint then you will love the Mythologia series. Read A Song for the Underworld today and experience the greatest love story of the ancient world!

The Song of the Underworld

The Song of the Underworld
Author: Samantha Jewel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1503504360

The story is based on a number of scientific facts but there are many areas of artistic license taken to make the story work for children. The main purpose of the story is to bring about an awareness of the enormous role the world we cannot see plays in our existence and the issue of carbon emissions and perhaps to create an empathy for rather than aversion to the microbe world we cohabit. For references and more information on the science of this story please read Elegant Solutions for Addressing Climate Change. to contact the author https://www.facebook.com/Elegant.Solutions.For.Life

Servant of the Underworld

Servant of the Underworld
Author: Aliette de Bodard
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857660322

IT IS THE YEAR ONE-KNIFE IN TENOCHTITLAN - THE CAPITAL OF THE AZTECS. The end of the world is kept at bay only by the magic of human sacrifice. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. Acatl, High Priest of the Dead must find her, or break the boundaries between the worlds of th living and the dead. But how do you find someone, living or dead, in a world where blood sacrifices are an everyday occurrence and the very gods stalk the streets? File Under: Fantasy [ Aztec Mystery | Locked Room | Human Sacrifice | The Dead Walk! ]

Songs of the Greek Underworld

Songs of the Greek Underworld
Author: Ēlias Petropoulos
Publisher: Saqi Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Songs of the Greek Underworld is not only a learned & erudite text, accompanied by breakdowns of the rhythms & metric patterns of the different musics & their associated dances, but a reminder of the shared cultural roots of Turkey & Greece.

Underworld Lit

Underworld Lit
Author: Srikanth Reddy
Publisher: Wave Books
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1950268217

Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this adventurous serial prose poem moves from the college classroom to the oncologist's office to the mythic underworlds of Mayan civilization, the ancient Egyptian place of judgment and rebirth, the infernal court of Qing dynasty China, and beyond—testing readers along with the way with diabolically demanding quizzes. It unsettles our sense of home as it ferries us back and forth across cultures, languages, epochs, and the shifting border between the living and the dead.

A Song for Ella Grey

A Song for Ella Grey
Author: David Almond
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-11
Genre: England
ISBN: 0553533622

When the handsome and strange Orpheus strolls onto the beach and sings, good friends Claire and Ella each find a new understanding of themselves.

Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black

Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1536207969

Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II–era London. Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld. With otherworldly paintings by Alexis Deacon depicting Harry’s surreal descent further into the depths of hell, this eerily beautiful blend of prose, verse, and illustration delves into love, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood as it builds to a fierce indictment of mechanized warfare.

15 Greek Myth Mini-Books

15 Greek Myth Mini-Books
Author: Danielle Blood
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439215619

"Reproducible comic book-style retellings that introduce kids to these riveting classic stories ..."--Cover.

I Am Dogboy

I Am Dogboy
Author: Karl Hyde
Publisher: Faber & Faber Social
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Rock musicians
ISBN: 9780571328659

In 1999, Underworld's Karl Hyde began writing a public diary. Every day since then, Hyde has documented his thoughts, lyrical works-in-progress, poetry, and biographical essays alongside "found" visuals. For the last sixteen years, these entries have collectively created an on-going, utterly unique monologue on Underworld's website. I Am Dogboy handpicks a selection of diary entries and rearranges them to create an autobiographical narrative that takes Hyde from childhood through to the exploratory early years of Underworld, an electronic act who have been peerless for the last 25 years. Spliced throughout the narrative are standalone/abstract poetic pieces that offer occasional snapshots of life on the road and in the studio and give an insight into Hyde's singular style of lyric writing. The book is beautifully designed by John Warwicker -- Hyde's long time collaborator and co-founder of the Tomato collective. Karl Hyde and John Warwicker have previously published the typographic books Mmm... Skyscraper I Love You and In The Belly of St Paul.