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Apollodoriana

Jordi Pàmias
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Author : Jordi Pàmias
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110544305

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Apollodoriana by Jordi Pàmias Pdf

A growing interest in myth over the last decades has brought to the fore the main mythographical manual that has came down to us from Antiquity: Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca. A number of recent editions shows this trend, like the commented translations of Carrière & Massonie (1991) and Scarpi & Ciani (1996), the translations of Guidorizzi (1995), Brodersen (2004), Dräger (2005) and Smith & Trzaskoma (2007) or the critical text by Papathomopoulos (2010). The publication of the first two volumes (2010 and 2012) of Cuartero’s massive critical and commented bilingual edition for the Fundació Bernat Metge series seemed the occasion to address this text from innovative scholarly perspectives. The origins of the present volume lay in a colloquium held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2013. Despite its crucial interest for the scientific study of ancient myth, no conference devoted to this engaging text was held prior to that one. And, to this date, no monographic volume on Apollodorus’ mythology exists either. To cover a broader scope of analysis, three further papers have been commissioned to other specialists. This collection of essays is meant to be a homage to Francesc J. Cuartero.

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography

R. Scott Smith,Stephen M. Trzaskoma,Stephen Trzaskoma
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Author : R. Scott Smith,Stephen M. Trzaskoma,Stephen Trzaskoma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Mythology, Classical
ISBN : 9780190648312

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography by R. Scott Smith,Stephen M. Trzaskoma,Stephen Trzaskoma Pdf

The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With the understanding that mythography remains a contested category, that its borders are not always clear, and that it shifted with changes in the socio-cultural and political landscapes, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography offers a range of scholarly voices that attempt to establish how and to what extent ancient writers followed the "mythographical mindset" that prompted works ranging from Apollodorus' Library to the rationalizing and allegorical approaches of Cornutus and Palaephatus. Editors R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma provide the first comprehensive survey of mythography from the earliest attempts to organize and comment on myths in the archaic period (in poetry and prose) to late antiquity. The essays also provide an overview of those writers we call mythographers and other major sources of mythographic material (e.g., papyri and scholia), followed by a series of essays that seek to explore the ways in which mythographical impulses were interconnected with other intellectual activities (e.g., geography and history, catasteristic writings, politics). In addition, another section of essays presents the first sustained analysis between mythography and the visual arts, while a final section takes mythography from late antiquity up into the Renaissance. While also taking stock of recent advances and providing bibliographical guidance, this Handbook offers new approaches to texts that were once seen only as derivative sources of mythical data and presents innovative ideas for further research. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography is an essential resource for teachers, scholars, and students alike.

Apollodoriana

Jordi Pàmias i Massana,Jordi Pàmias
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Author : Jordi Pàmias i Massana,Jordi Pàmias
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3110540746

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Apollodoriana by Jordi Pàmias i Massana,Jordi Pàmias Pdf

Although many editions and translations of Apollodorus' Bibliotheca have appeared over the last decades, no monographic study was dedicated to this essential source for ancient myths so far. This volume fills this gap, providing for the first time

Myths on the Margins of Homer

Joan Pagès,Nereida Villagra
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Author : Joan Pagès,Nereida Villagra
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110751192

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Myths on the Margins of Homer by Joan Pagès,Nereida Villagra Pdf

Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinions, a consequence of the complex nature of the textual tradition but also of the difficulty of defining the nature of this mythographic work itself. This volume offers a study of Mythographus Homericus from different perspectives: the place of the work in the history of scholarship, the state of the text, which has been transmitted by scholia and papyri, its readership, its place in mythography and in Homeric scholarship, its intertextual relationship to other mythographic works or scholiastic corpora and its contribution to the study of myth from a typological perspective.

Agenorid Myth in the ›Bibliotheca‹ of Pseudo-Apollodorus

Johanna Astrid Michels
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Author : Johanna Astrid Michels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110610529

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Agenorid Myth in the ›Bibliotheca‹ of Pseudo-Apollodorus by Johanna Astrid Michels Pdf

The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the first systematic commentary on an essential selection, the Cretan and Theban myths in Bibl. III.1-56, and by presenting an in-depth analysis of the text. In so doing, this volume closes a gap in current research, from which a philological commentary is entirely missing. The main part of the study focuses on various aspects of composition and organization by addressing structuring principles, narratorial interventions, and the author's method and sources. It lays to rest persistent misconceptions about the representative character of the Bibliotheca's myths, the author's merits, and his source use, all of which have divided the scholarship to this date. In addition, it provides an update on the author, date, purpose and readership, text history, and book division of the Bibliotheca.

Virgilian Parerga

Gian Biagio Conte
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Author : Gian Biagio Conte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110704068

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Virgilian Parerga by Gian Biagio Conte Pdf

Together with "Critical Notes on Virgil" (De Gruyter 2016), this volume offers an enlightening complement to the critical text of the Georgics and the Aeneid recently published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana. In "Virgilian Parerga: Textual Criticism and Stylistic Analysis" can be seen the progress owed to the insight of four of the finest scholars of the past (Heinsius, Heyne, Ribbeck and Sabbadini). The first chapters trace the steps of the arduous path that from the middle of the 17th century on led these outstanding erudites to free themselves from the uulgata and compose a new critical text for the works of Virgil. The later chapters tackle important questions of textual criticism and Virgilian style, and propose new answers to inveterate exegetic problems. The volume ends with an interesting theoretical discussion on the methodological principles that combine the rules of philology with those of law. Here the author questions the logical assumptions that dominate not only the philological process but also the judicial one.

Myths on the Map

Greta Hawes
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Author : Greta Hawes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191093388

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Polybius boldly declared that 'now that all places have become accessible by land or sea, it is no longer appropriate to use poets and writers of myth as witnesses of the unknown' (4.40.2). And yet, in reality, the significance of myth did not diminish as the borders of the known world expanded. Storytelling was always an inextricable part of how the ancient Greeks understood their environment; mythic maps existed alongside new, more concrete, methods of charting the contours of the earth. Specific landscape features acted as repositories of myth and spurred their retelling; myths, in turn, shaped and gave sense to natural and built environments, and were crucial to the conceptual resonances of places both unknown and known. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of Greek myth, literature, history, and archaeology to examine the myriad intricate ways in which ancient Greek myth interacted with the physical and conceptual landscapes of antiquity. The diverse range of approaches and topics highlights in particular the plurality and pervasiveness of such interactions. The collection as a whole sheds new light on the central importance of storytelling in Greek conceptions of space.

Acusilaus of Argos’ Rhapsody in Prose

Ilaria Andolfi
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Author : Ilaria Andolfi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110618600

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Acusilaus of Argos’ Rhapsody in Prose by Ilaria Andolfi Pdf

This volume is a full-scale commentary on the extant fragments of Acusilaus of Argos, commonly regarded as one of the earliest Greek mythographers (VI-V cent. BCE). To encapsulate his contribution to archaic literature, his book on Genealogies is described as a "Rhapsody in Prose", that foregrounds especially the exegetical nature of his book, which rewrote the most ancient past on the basis of the most authoritative epic poems.

Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama

Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko
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Author : Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110621693

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Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama by Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.

Reconstructing Satyr Drama

Andreas P. Antonopoulos,Menelaos M. Christopoulos,George W. M. Harrison
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Author : Andreas P. Antonopoulos,Menelaos M. Christopoulos,George W. M. Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110725247

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Reconstructing Satyr Drama by Andreas P. Antonopoulos,Menelaos M. Christopoulos,George W. M. Harrison Pdf

The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.

Empty Tomb, Apotheosis, Resurrection

John Granger Cook
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Author : John Granger Cook
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161565038

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Empty Tomb, Apotheosis, Resurrection by John Granger Cook Pdf

Back cover: In this work, John Granger Cook argues that there is no fundamental difference between Paul's conception of the resurrection body and that of the Gospels; and, the resurresction and translation stories of antiquity help explain the willingness of Mediterranean people to accept the Gospel of a risen savior.

Greek Myth

Lowell Edmunds
Greek Myth Book PDF

Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110696202

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Greek Myth by Lowell Edmunds Pdf

This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines of study. Aimed at students and scholars in Classics, it will also be of interest to larger audiences in the Humanities.

Orpheus in Macedonia

Tomasz Mojsik
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Author : Tomasz Mojsik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350213203

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Orpheus in Macedonia by Tomasz Mojsik Pdf

The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but 'the son of Oeagrus' and 'Thracian musician' venerated by the Greeks has also become a prominent figure in a long tradition of classical reception of Greek myth. This book challenges our entrenched idea of Orpheus and demonstrates that in the Classical and Hellenistic periods depictions of his identity and image were not as unequivocal as we tend to believe today. Concentrating on Orpheus' ethnicity and geographical references in ancient sources, Tomasz Mojsik traces the development of, and changes in, the mythological image of the hero in antiquity and sheds new light on contemporary constructions of cultural identity by locating the various versions of the mythical story within their socio-political contexts. Examination of the early literary sources prompts a reconsideration of the tradition which locates the tomb of the hero in Macedonian Pieria, and the volume argues for the emergence of this tradition as a reaction to the allegation of the barbarity and civilizational backwardness of the Macedonians throughout the wider Greek world. These assertions have important implications for Archelaus' Hellenizing policy and his commonly acknowledged sponsorship of the arts, which included his incorporating of the Muses into the cult of Zeus at the Olympia in Dium.

Euripides and the Myth of Perseus

P.J. Finglass
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Author : P.J. Finglass
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111384313

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Euripides and the Myth of Perseus by P.J. Finglass Pdf

A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Danaë. This book demonstrates the significance of this discovery for our understanding of Greek tragedy. After setting out the mythological and dramatic context, and offering a new text and translation based on autopsy, the book analyses the light which the papyrus sheds on these plays, whose narratives, centred on female resistance to abusive male tyrants, speak as powerfully to us today as they did to their original audiences. It then investigates Euripides’ tragic trilogy of 431 BC, which ended with Dictys and began with Medea, whose dramatic power now stands in sharper focus given our improved understanding of the production in which it originally appeared. Finally, it ponders the purpose which these hypotheses served, and why readers in the second century AD should have wanted a summary of plays written more than half a millennium before. All Greek (and Latin) is translated, making the book accessible not just to classicists, but to theatre historians and to anyone interested in Greek literature, drama, and mythology.

Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond

Rebecca Laemmle,Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle,Katharina Wesselmann
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Author : Rebecca Laemmle,Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle,Katharina Wesselmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110712285

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Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond by Rebecca Laemmle,Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle,Katharina Wesselmann Pdf

Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.