Approaches To Homer S Iliad And Odyssey

Author : Κώστας Μυρσιάδης
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433108852

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Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey by Κώστας Μυρσιάδης Pdf

Approaches to Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' consists of ten original essays on the Iliad and Odyssey by established Homeric scholars and university professors of Greek literature and culture. The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century. Both epics are required reading in most college/university general and world literature courses, as is evident from their inclusion in part or in whole in many standard world literature anthologies. These ten new approaches to the first literary works of Western culture are intended as reading aids for both instructors and students in any college/university classroom in which either of these two Homeric epics are taught.

Author : Robert J. Rabel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : UCSC:32106018184199

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Approaches to Homer by Robert J. Rabel Pdf

Ten new essays, from a distinguished cast of (mainly) North American scholars, approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. But the contributors also attend to ancient modes of approach to the Homeric poems: linguistic and narratological, ethical and psyhological. The volume focuses both on literary technique in the poems, and on the portrayal of characters and peoples, central and marginal.

Author : Сергей Николаевич Сергеев-Ценский
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Short stories, Russian
ISBN : OCLC:154138310

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Повести и рассказы by Сергей Николаевич Сергеев-Ценский Pdf

Author : W. Lucas Collins
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664188984

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Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey by W. Lucas Collins Pdf

"Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey" is a Victorian-era edition of the classic works of the great Greek poet with extensive commentary of William Lucas Collins. In the book, the author explains the classic poems, making them easier to understand and follow for the average reader.

Author : Miriam Carlisle,Olga Levaniouk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0847694240

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Nine Essays on Homer by Miriam Carlisle,Olga Levaniouk Pdf

The essays in this collection addresses questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies' introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches--linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology--this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0873524993

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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

Approaches to Teaching World Literature 13.

Author : Homer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801868548

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The Odyssey by Homer Pdf

Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.

Author : Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044085130102

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Homer by Richard Claverhouse Jebb Pdf

Author : Carl A. Rubino,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292767874

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Approaches to Homer by Carl A. Rubino,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine Pdf

Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history. Several essays are primarily concerned with what the Homeric poems teach us about the past. Richard Hope Simpson, for example, reviews the controversy sparked by his and John F. Lazenby's 1970 argument that the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad accurately reflects the geography of Mycenean Greece. Using archaeology as just one of his starting points, Gregory Nagy reflects upon the death and funeral of Sarpedon as described in the Iliad. Our understanding of the word áté is enhanced by E. D. Francis, who closely examines its prehistory. Norman Austin's elegant and original discussion of tone in the Odyssey's Cyclops tale is animated by both psychoanalytic theory and his work with two practitioners of optometric visual training. Writing of Odysseus, James M. Redfield dubs that hero "the economic man" and links certain tensions in the Odyssey to the actual economic concerns of Greece in the late eighth century BC. Both Ann L. T. Bergren and Mabel L. Lang concern themselves with problems of narrative in the Homeric epics. Like Hope Simpson, C. J. Rowe updates a controversy—in this instance, the many objections raised to Arthur Adkins' influential 1960 study of moral values in Homer. Gareth Morgan provides a fascinating glimpse of the Homeric scholarship of another day by focusing on the work of the astonishing John Tzetzes in twelfth-century Byzantium.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0873525000

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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

Approaches to Teaching World Literature 13.

Author : George Alexander Gazis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191091155

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Homer and the Poetics of Hades by George Alexander Gazis Pdf

Homer and the Poetics of Hades offers a new and unique approach to the Iliad and, more particularly, the Odyssey through an exploration of the role and function of the Underworld as a poetic resource permitting an alternative perspective on the epic past. By portraying Hades as a realm where vision is not possible, Homer creates a unique poetic environment in which social constraints and divine prohibitions do not apply, resulting in a narrative which emulates that of the Muses but which at the same time is markedly distinct from it. In Hades experimentation with, and alteration of, important epic forms and values can be pursued with greater freedom, giving rise to a different kind of poetics: the 'poetics of Hades'. In the Iliad, Homer offers us a glimpse of how this alternative poetics works through the visit of Patroclus' shade in Achilles' dream. The recollection offered by the shade reveals an approach to its past in which regret, self-pity, and a lingering memory of intimate and emotional moments displace an objective tone and traditional exposition of heroic values. However, the potential of Hades for providing alternative means of commemorating the past is more fully explored in the 'Nekyia' of Odyssey 11: there, Odysseus' extraordinary ability to see the dead in Hades allows him to meet and interview the shades of heroines and heroes of the epic past, while the absolute confinement of Hades allows the shades to recount their stories from their own personal points of view. The poetic implications are significant, since by visiting Hades and listening to the stories of the shades Odysseus, and Homer with him, gain access to a tradition in which epic values associated with gender roles and even divine law are suspended in favour of a more immediate and personally inflected approach to the epic past. As readers, this alternative poetics offers us more than just a revised framework within which to navigate the Iliad and the Odyssey, inviting as it does a more nuanced understanding of the Greeks' anxieties around mortality and posthumous fame.

Author : Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300080123

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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognise the Homeric antecedents in Mark's story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes. Much like Odysseus, Mark's Jesus sails the seas with uncomprehending companions, encounters preternatural opponents, and suffers many things before confronting rivals who have made his house a den of thieves. In his death and burial, Jesus emulates Hector, although unlike Hector Jesus leaves his tomb empty. Mark's minor characters, too, recall Homeric predecessors: Bartimaeus emulates Tiresias; Joseph of Arimathea, Priam; and the women at the tomb, Helen, Hecuba, and Andromache. And, entire episodes in Mark mirror Homeric episodes, including stilling the sea, walking on water, feeding the multitudes, the Triumphal E

Author : Homer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627931458

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The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer Pdf

The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy staring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey: Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn. Having been away for twenty years, little does he know what awaits him when he finally makes his way home. These two books are some of the most import books in the literary cannon, having influenced virtually every adventure tale ever told. And yet they are still accessible and immediate and now you can have both in one binding.

Author : Richard L. Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 110844928X

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The Measure of Homer by Richard L. Hunter Pdf

Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the geographical and educational breadth of Homeric reception, the literary and theological influence of Homer's depiction of the gods, Homeric poetry and sympotic culture, scholarly and rhetorical approaches to Homer, Homer in the satires of Plutarch and Lucian, and how Homer shaped ideas about the power of music and song. This is a major and innovative contribution to the study of the dominant literary force in Greek culture and of the Greek literary engagement with the past. Through the study of their influence and reception, this book also sheds rich light on the Homeric poems themselves. All Greek and Latin are translated.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407034478

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Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett Pdf

'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.' Everybody knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants nothing to do with her. Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld's most famous witch, has plenty of experience ignoring the status quo. With Granny's help, Esk sneaks her way into the magical Unseen University and befriends apprentice wizard Simon. But power is unpredictable, and these bright young students soon find themselves in a whole new dimension of trouble. Let the battle of the sexes begin . . . 'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own' The Times Equal Rites is the first book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.