Essays On Ancient Greek Literature And Culture Comedy Herodotus Hellenistic And Imperial Greek Poetry The Novels

Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Greek poetry
ISBN : 1107415438

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry, the novels by Ewen Bowie Pdf

"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 "--

Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107058125

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Ewen Bowie Pdf

Assembles a major scholar's work on Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry and the novels over four decades, illustrating its evolution.

Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009353526

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels by Ewen Bowie Pdf

In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, fifth-century historiography, and Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. Many are already essential reading, such as the chapter on the figure of Lycidas in Theocritus' Idyll 7, or two chapters on the ancient readership of Greek novels. Discussions of Imperial Greek poetry published three decades ago opened up a world almost entirely neglected by scholars. Several chapters address literary and linguistic issues in Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe, complementing the author's commentary published in 2019; two contribute to a better understanding of the enigmatic Aethiopica of Heliodorus; and many explore important questions arising from examination of the form of the Greek novel as a whole. This is the second of a planned three-volume collection.

Author : Tim Rood,Melina Tamiolaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110793437

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Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception by Tim Rood,Melina Tamiolaki Pdf

This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus’ characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon’s leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace. The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions. The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations). Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis’ long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically.

Author : Stephen Halliwell,Christopher Stray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350333475

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Scholarship and Controversy by Stephen Halliwell,Christopher Stray Pdf

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy which brought him into the national spotlight, not without some notoriety, in his later years. The contributors consider the various facets of Dover's life and work from a range of perspectives which reflect the burgeoning field of the history of scholarship. Some contributors were students and colleagues of Dover's at different stages of his career, while others are themselves leading experts in areas of Classics to which he devoted his energies. Chapters on his academic publications and on the controversies he faced in the public realm are not bland celebrations of his legacy but offer critical assessments of his motivations and achievements, cumulatively demonstrating that there is much to be learned not just about Dover himself but also about the fields he helped to shape.

Author : Anna Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190697112

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Laughter on the Fringes by Anna Peterson Pdf

This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by and repudiated for its aggressive humor. Worthy of further consideration, however, is the degree to which both approaches, and particularly the latter one that relegated Old Comedy to the fringes of the literary canon, led authors to engage with the ironic and self-reflexive humor of Aristophanes, Eupolis and Cratinus. Authors ranging from serious moralizers (Plutarch and Aelius Aristides) to comic writers in their own right (Lucian, Alciphron) to other figures not often associated with Old Comedy (Libanius) adopted aspects of the genre to negotiate power struggles, facilitate literary and sophistic rivalries, and as a model for autobiographical writing. To varying degrees, these writers wove recognizable features of the genre (e.g. the parabasis, its agonistic language, the stage biographies of the individual poets) into their writings. The image of Old Comedy that emerges from this time is that of a genre in transition. It was, on the one hand, with the exception of Aristophanes' extant plays, on the verge of being almost completely lost; on the other hand, its reputation and several of its most characteristic elements were being renegotiated and reinvented.

Author : Emmanuela Bakola,Lucia Prauscello,Mario Tel-
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107033313

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Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres by Emmanuela Bakola,Lucia Prauscello,Mario Tel- Pdf

Explores comedy's voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions surrounding and shaping it.

Author : N. Bryant Kirkland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197583517

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Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature by N. Bryant Kirkland Pdf

"Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, this book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus's intellectual afterlife, channeled through evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire and periegetic literature. Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature shifts focus from reputation only - what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus - toward the kinetic interrelation between Herodotus's reputation and his active reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed and often implicitly summoned - as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual - and how such Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Herodotus became a touchstone for writers concerned with a nimbus of questions that the Histories first helped to articulate. Imperial Greeks found Herodotus useful in puzzling through questions of authorial persona, mimesis, the relationship between aesthetic and ethical criticism, the self, and the contingent definitions of Hellenism under Rome. Ultimately, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature widens an incomplete reception history and reads bi-focally, examining how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories"--

Author : Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015019641284

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Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion, and Miscellanea by Hugh Lloyd-Jones Pdf

This book collects thirty-eight papers by the great classicist to commemorate his recent retirement as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. The papers, some of which were originally published in foreign journals and appear here in translation for the first time, reflect his interest in the fields of Greek comedy, Hellenistic literature, Greek religion, and Greek culture in general.

Author : Arnold Wycombe Gomme
Publisher : Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Greece
ISBN : UVA:X000197411

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Essays in Greek History and Literature by Arnold Wycombe Gomme Pdf

Author : C. W. Marshall,Tom Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472588852

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Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire by C. W. Marshall,Tom Hawkins Pdf

Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood. This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.

Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1097 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614511250

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Ancient Comedy and Reception by S. Douglas Olson Pdf

This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as toall those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.

Author : Moses Hadas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000206151

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A History of Greek Literature by Moses Hadas Pdf

A careful survey of the Greek literary experience over the course of fifteen hundred years. Looking at Homer through Hellenistic times, with a focus on the philosophers, historians, Romans, and religious literature.

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195357691

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Greek Comedy and Ideology by David Konstan Pdf

In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. It explores the utopian vision of Aristophanes' comedies--for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of wealth himself--as interventions in the political issues of his time. David Konstan goes on to examine the more private world of Menandrean comedy (including two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), in which problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. In conclusion, Konstan looks at an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliére, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.

Author : William Mure
Publisher : London : Longman, brown, Green, and Longmans
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Greek language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044099891954

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A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece by William Mure Pdf