Overview
A Feast in Place of War, a play, based on the book of the same name published in Moscow in 2013. The play is set 12,000 years BCE on the sacred Mount Meru, where the classical Greco-Roman gods have gathered to end their protracted feud with the Titans once and for all. However, not even the gods can make everything go as they want, and Zeus is forced to replace the Council of Gods with a feast, as the Titans haven't shown up for the talks. The supreme deity has announced a ball, but the gods aren't exactly falling over themselves to attend this, either. His beloved children Athena, Aphrodite and Apollo don't come, and there is no sign of Mother Gaia, who is trying to prepare an elixir of immortality for her earthly progeny while the others feast. As the action unfolds, we see the gods for who they really are, with all their squabbles, scheming and psychological games. Zeus likes to think that he's in charge, but how much does the Thunderer really know about what's going on behind his back? He's declared the Earth's ancient inhabitants withered branches of the tree of life , but Mother Gaia is determined to save them from destruction--and Hera, the goddess of women and marriage, is equally determined to stop her. But how will Zeus react when he finds out that his own wife hasn't informed him of her cunning plan?
Full Product Details
Author: Nadezhda Kolyshkina ,
George Butchard
Publisher: Silk Road Media
Imprint: Hertfordshire Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.141kg
ISBN: 9781910886717
ISBN 10: 1910886718
Pages: 122
Publication Date: 13 February 2018
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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The play is set the sacred Mount Meru, where the mythological figures we know as the pantheon of Greco-Roman gods have assem ed. lt is the eve of war between the gods and Titans, and they have gathered for an emergency council. However, Zeus unexpectedly replaces this solemn affair with an evening of feasting and entertainment. And yet the gods cannot escape the concerns of complex earthly life even at such supposedly light-hearted event ...
The play is set оп the sacred Mount Meru, where the mythological figures we know as the pantheon of Greco-Roman gods have assemЫed. lt is the eve of war between the gods and Titans, and they have gathered for an emergency council. However, Zeus unexpectedly replaces this solemn affair with an evening of feasting and entertainment. And yet the gods cannot escape the concerns of complex earthly life even at such а supposedly light-hearted event ...
Author Information
Nadezhda Kolyshkina is an editor of historical literature and the author of over 10 books pu ished in Russia and Ukraine. main work is the six-part mythological series Quarrels of the Gods, which comprises: Feast in / of War, The G/oomy Abyss, Heroes and Geniuses, Mirages Made Rea/, The lnnocence of Simplicity and The lnverted Universe. She is currently working on the seventh book, of Woe. The play Feast in / af War was based on the book of the same name and draws together mythological subject matter with the very real issues and challenges our own civilisation faces.
