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 School of Hellas

The School of Hellas
Author: Antony Erich Raubitschek
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN:

This collection of writings presents the work of one of the century's most influential classical scholars. Bringing together for the first time Raubitschek's most significant publications, the book provides rich insights into the ancient authors and monuments as they were meant to be understood in antiquity.

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.

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.

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.

Classics in Progress

Classics in Progress
Author: T. P. Wiseman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780197263235

The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.

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.

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.

The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World
Author: John Boardman
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1991-09-05
Genre: Greece
ISBN: 0192852477

This authorative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Greek monarchies some five centuries later.