Brill S Companion To Greek And Latin Epyllion And Its Reception

Author : Manuel Baumbach,Silvio Bär
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004233058

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Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception by Manuel Baumbach,Silvio Bär Pdf

In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term “epyllion” was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters were regarded as typically “epyllic” features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call “epyllia” were not considered a coherent genre, which seems to be an innovation of the late 18th century. The contributions in this book not only re-examine some important (and some lesser known) Greek and Latin primary texts, but also critically reconsider the theoretical discourses attached to it, and also sketch their literary and scholarly reception in the Byzantine and Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090059453

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Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004409446

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plutarch offers the first comprehensive analysis of Plutarch’s rich reception history from the high Roman Empire, Late Antiquity and Byzantium to the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the modern era, across various cultures in Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Author : Christiane Reitz,Simone Finkmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 2756 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110492590

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Structures of Epic Poetry by Christiane Reitz,Simone Finkmann Pdf

This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.

Author : Marco Fantuzzi,Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408536

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Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral by Marco Fantuzzi,Theodore D. Papanghelis Pdf

The twenty-three contributions collected in this volume on Greek and Latin Pastoral focus mainly on the historical genesis, the stylistic and narrative features, the literary self-definition, and the fortunes of pastoral from its Theocritean origins to the Byzantine age.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004466715

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Brill's Companion to Theocritus by Anonim Pdf

Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.

Author : Silvio Bär,Emily Hauser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350039346

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Reading Poetry, Writing Genre by Silvio Bär,Emily Hauser Pdf

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. “Genre” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works. Classical scholarship, literary criticism, and genre form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and English literature. Covering topics from the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004310698

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Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by international scholars who explore the work of the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity, the author of the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca and the ‘Christian’ Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel.

Author : Berenice Verhelst,Tine Scheijnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516058

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Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity by Berenice Verhelst,Tine Scheijnen Pdf

Promotes a bilingual (Latin/Greek) focus to shed new light on the poetics and aesthetics of late antique poetry.

Author : Katharine Mawford,Eleni Ntanou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110728798

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Ancient Memory by Katharine Mawford,Eleni Ntanou Pdf

Although the recent ‘memory boom’ has led to increasing interdisciplinary interest, there is a significant gap relating to the examination of this topic in Classics. In particular, there is need for a systematic exploration of ancient memory and its use as a critical and methodological tool for delving into ancient literature. The present volume provides just such an approach, theorising the use and role of memory in Graeco-Roman thought and literature, and building on the background of memory studies. The volume’s contributors apply theoretical models such as memoryscapes, civic and cultural memory, and memory loss to a range of authors, from Homeric epic to Senecan drama, and from historiography to Cicero’s recollections of performances. The chapters are divided into four sections according to the main perspective taken. These are: 1) the Mechanics of Memory, 2) Collective memory, 3) Female Memory, and 4) Oblivion. This modern approach to ancient memory will be useful for scholars working across the range of Greek and Roman literature, as well as for students, and a broader interdisciplinary audience interested in the intersection of memory studies and Classics.

Author : Silvia Montiglio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351137003

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Musaeus' Hero and Leander by Silvia Montiglio Pdf

This book offers a new English translation of Musaeus' poem Hero and Leander, with the original Greek on the facing page, a substantial introduction and a detailed commentary. The tragic romance of Hero and Leander has had and still has a great appeal, inspiring countless writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians. The Introduction aims at situating the poem within its literary tradition and cultural context as well as at drawing its major themes and describing the salient features of its style. Because Hero and Leander enjoyed an immense and uninterrupted popularity, the Introduction also devotes a large section to the poem’s reception in literature, which crosses paths with the reception of the other main ancient poetic treatment of the legend, Ovid’s Heroides 18 and 19. The commentary, which follows the Greek text and its translation, is addressed to a variety of readers: the student and the scholar of Greek literature, as well as those of other literatures in which the poem has been inspirational. This work has no precedent in the English language. This new translation will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek and late antique literature, as well as those working on mythology and classical reception.

Author : Richard Hunter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110747577

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The Layers of the Text by Richard Hunter Pdf

This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and historical engagement with the literature of the past from the period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic. Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After (Berlin 2008).

Author : Antonios Rengakos,Patrick Finglass,Bernhard Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110695915

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More than Homer Knew – Studies on Homer and His Ancient Commentators by Antonios Rengakos,Patrick Finglass,Bernhard Zimmermann Pdf

This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by eminent specialists on Homer, ancient Homeric scholarship, and the reception of the Homeric Epics in both ancient and modern times. It covers a wide range of important subjects, including neoanalysis and oral poetry, the Doloneia, the Homeric scholia, the theoretical premises of Aristarchean scholarship, and Homer in Sappho, Pindar, Comedy, Plato, and Hellenistic Poetry. As a whole, the contributions demonstrate the vitality of modern scholarship on Homeric poetry.

Author : Emily Kneebone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840835

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Oppian's Halieutica by Emily Kneebone Pdf

Reveals the sophistication of a once-popular Greek didactic epic on the sea and its fish, addressed to the Roman emperor.

Author : Ruth R. Caston,Robert A. Kaster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190278304

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Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World by Ruth R. Caston,Robert A. Kaster Pdf

The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost entirely on negative emotions. This might give the impression that the Greeks and Romans had little to say about positive emotion, something that would be misguided. As the chapters in this collection indicate, there are representations of positive emotions extending from archaic Greek poetry to Augustine, and in both philosophical works and literary genres as wide-ranging as lyric poetry, forensic oratory, comedy, didactic poetry, and the novel. Nor is the evidence uniform: while many of the literary representations give expression to positive emotion but also describe its loss, the philosophers offer a more optimistic assessment of the possibilities of attaining joy or contentment in this life. The positive emotions show some of the same features that all emotions do. But unlike the negative emotions, which we are able to describe and analyze in great detail because of our preoccupation with them, positive emotions tend to be harder to articulate. Hence the interest of the present study, which considers how positive emotions are described, their relationship to other emotions, the ways in which they are provoked or upset by circumstances, how they complicate and enrich our relationships with other people, and which kinds of positive emotion we should seek to integrate. The ancient works have a great deal to say about all of these topics, and for that reason deserve more study, both for our understanding of antiquity and for our understanding of the positive emotions in general.