Masterpieces Of Greek Literature
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Author | : Helaine Smith |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313036705 |
Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus plays, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae, and Aristophanes' Birds and Lysistrata are discussed in this lively and scholarly volume. The author's experience teaching these plays to gifted high school students makes this volume particularly useful. The drama festivals, the adaptations of myth, the relevance of Aristotelian criteria, and the political and cultural background of each play are described fully, and the nature of tragedy and comedy, plot construction, stagecraft, theme, character, imagery and individual odes and speeches are analyzed in depth. The 5th century BC witnessed the flourishing of Athenian culture and was one of the most influential periods in history. The achievements of the Greeks at that time forever shaped our political and legal institutions and provided the foundation for Western civilization. At the same time, the world of the Greeks is distant and exotic to contemporary students. The values and beliefs of the Greeks are best represented in the plays that were crafted at that time, and these works continue to be widely read and studied. This book is a valuable introduction to ancient Greek drama. Designed for high school students, undergraduates, and their teachers, this work describes the origins and physical aspects of ancient Greek theatre, discusses Aristotle's Poetics, and analyzes, in ten separate chapters, ten frequently studied Greek plays: Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae and Aristophanes' Birds and Lysistrata. For each there is cultural, political and mythological background, plot synopsis, and analysis of overall structure and important scenes, speeches and odes. The Aristophanes chapters explore comic method and all chapters discuss theme and stagecraft in depth.
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Art, Ancient |
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Author | : Adolf Furtwängler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Illustrated books (Photographs) |
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Author | : David J. Schenker |
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Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
ISBN | : 9781598032772 |
Author | : Martin Hose |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444339427 |
A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Figures of speech |
ISBN | : 9780674088320 |
Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, metonymy connects something familiar with something else already familiar. Nagy offers close readings of over one hundred examples of metonymy in the arts of Greek and other cultures.
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Publisher | : frances lincoln ltd |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780711211933 |
Author | : Photini N. Zaphiropoulou |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781419722295 |
Greek sculpture was among the first art to communicate human emotions and to offer a more realistic portrait of the individual. By working in new materials and posing the body naturally, Greek sculptors established the foundation of a whole new art form. This book features more than 60 of these influential works that range in form, historical period, and subject.
Author | : Janet Burnett Grossman |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780892367085 |
What is a an anthemion? What is giallo antico marble? Who was Praxiteles? This richly illustrated book -- in the popular Looking At series -- presents definitions and descriptions of these and many other terms relating to Greek and Roman sculpture encountered in museum exhibitions and publications on ancient stone sculpture. This is an indispensable guide to anyone looking for greater understanding of ancient sculpture and heightened enjoyment of the objects. Book jacket.
Author | : Richard Neer |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2010-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226570657 |
In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders. Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. Neer traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato. Then, through meticulous accounts of major sculpture from around the Greek world, he shows how the demand for wonder-inducing statues gave rise to some of the greatest masterpieces of Greek art. Rewriting the history of Greek sculpture in Greek terms and restoring wonder to a sometimes dusty subject, The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the art of sculpture or the history of the ancient world.