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| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : A W (Arnold Wycombe) Gomme |
| Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2021-09-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781014645746 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
