Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
Author: Ewen Bowie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 886
Release: 2022-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009213407

In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of collected papers will follow devoted to later Greek literature and culture.

The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief

The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief
Author: Eric Robertson Dodds
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1985
Genre: Civilization, Greco-Roman
ISBN: 9780198143772

These essays represent the full range of Dodds' literary and philosophical interests, and his ability to combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher convinced of the value of Greek studies to the modern world.

Modern Greek Literature

Modern Greek Literature
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135576688

This collection examines major Greek authors from the early 19th century through the present day, spanning from romantic to post-modern authors, poets, and playwrights. The essays focus on intersections between oral and written traditions in nineteenth and twentieth century Greece. Major authors discussed included Solomos, Vizyenos, Papadiamantis, Seferis, and many others.

Logos and Muthos

Logos and Muthos
Author: William Wians
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2010-07-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438427433

Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.

Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange
Author: John Gould
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780199265817

How did Greek literature and culture interact? John Gould was one of the greatest writers on Greek civilisation of his generation. The most significant of his many essays, including several previously unpublished, are revised and gathered here.

The Poet's Voice

The Poet's Voice
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2024-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009478214

Invaluable guide to ancient Greek literature and literary theory through the representation of poetry and the figure of the poet.

Logoi and Muthoi

Logoi and Muthoi
Author: William Wians
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2019-05-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438474903

In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander's calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought.

Literature in the Greek World

Literature in the Greek World
Author: Oliver Taplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2001
Genre: Authors and readers
ISBN: 9780192893031

'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.'The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from theearliest Greek poetry through to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule.The contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation,and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important?

Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Author: Oliver Taplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2000
Genre: Classical literature
ISBN: 9780192100207

The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.

Weaving Truth

Weaving Truth
Author: Ann Bergren
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form--the one Freud believed was even invented by women--weaving. The essays in this book explore the implications of this nexus: language, the female, weaving, and the construction of truth. The Homeric bard--male, to be sure--inherits from Indo-European culture the designation of his poetry as a weaving, the female's art. Like her tapestries, his "texts" can suspend, reverse, and re-order time. He can weave the content from one world into the interstices of another. The male poet shares the ambiguous power of the female Muses whose speech he channels. "We can say false things like to real things, and whenever we wish, we can utter the truth."