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| Author | : W. R. Halliday |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2014-10-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107679087 |
This book contains the text of the Gray Lectures delivered in 1932 on the influence of Indo-European legend on Greek myth.
| Author | : William Reginald Halliday |
| Publisher | : R. West |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 1978-01-01 |
| Genre | : Legends |
| ISBN | : 9780849252129 |
| Author | : Sir William Reginald Halliday |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Folklore, Aryan |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Wayland D. Hand |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520313216 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
| Author | : Jeni Williams |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 1997-07-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1847141854 |
The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.
| Author | : M. L. West |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2008-11-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191565407 |
The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was influenced by Near Eastern traditions, mainly non-Indo-European. His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements of more ancient, Indo-European heritage in the Greek material. Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in Indo-European societies; metre, style, and diction; gods and other supernatural beings, from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the Sun-god and his beautiful daughter, the Thunder-god and other elemental deities, and earthly orders such as Nymphs and Elves; the forms of hymns, prayers, and incantations; conceptions about the world, its origin, mankind, death, and fate; the ideology of fame and of immortalization through poetry; the typology of the king and the hero; the hero as warrior, and the conventions of battle narrative.
| Author | : Corinne Ondine Pache |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 974 |
| Release | : 2020-03-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1108663621 |
From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
| Author | : Graham Anderson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2019-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429779003 |
This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Snow White, The Frog Prince and a host of others where the similarities to familiar ‘modern’ versions far outweigh the differences. Here we find Cinderella as a courtesan, Snow White coming to a tragic end or an innocent heroine murdering her sisters. We find an emperor’s new clothes where the flatterers compare him to Alexander the Great, or a pair of adulterers caught in a magic trap. Tantalising fragments suggest that there is more to be discovered: we can point to a Sleeping Beauty where the girl takes on the green colouring of the surrounding wood, or we encounter a Rumpelstiltskin connected to a mystery cult. The overall picture suggests a much richer texture of popular tale as a fascinating new legacy of antiquity. This volume breaks down the traditional barriers between Classical Mythology and the fairy tale, and will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on the history of fairy tales and folklore.
