Lucian Three Menippean Fantasies

Author : Lucian,Joel C. Relihan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781647920272

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Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies by Lucian,Joel C. Relihan Pdf

A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan’s lively English translations of Lucian’s three reanimations of Menippus—fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the CorpsesIcaromenippus; or, A Man above the CloudsThe Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian’s evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian’s Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian’s imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire.

Author : Lucian (of Samosata.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1647920280

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Three Menippean Fantasies by Lucian (of Samosata.) Pdf

A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan's lively English translations of Lucian's three reanimations of Menippus--fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the CorpsesIcaromenippus; or, A Man above the CloudsThe Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian's evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian's Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian's imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire.

Author : Inger NI Kuin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472133345

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Lucian’s Laughing Gods by Inger NI Kuin Pdf

The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata

Author : Joel C. Relihan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647921255

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The Tale of Lucius; or, The Ass (Onos) by Joel C. Relihan Pdf

An anonymous Greek reworking (doubtfully attributed to Lucian) of the lost, anonymous Greek Metamorphoseis (falsely attributed to Lucius of Patras). An American translation by Joel C. Relihan (Professor of Classics, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts), available as a free eBook from Hackett Publishing Company.

Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429639173

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Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature by Graham Anderson Pdf

Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, and The Pumpkinification of the Emperor Claudius. Bringing this diverse material together for the first time, Anderson widens readers’ perspectives on the realm of fantasy in ancient literature, including topics such as dialogues with the dead, Utopian communities and fantastic feasts. Going beyond the more familiar world of myth, his examples range from The Golden Ass to the Late Antique Testament of a Pig. The volume also explores ancient resistance to the world of make-believe. Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature is an invaluable resource not only for students of classical and comparative literature, but also for modern writers on fantasy who want to explore the genre’s origins in antiquity, both in the more obvious and in lesser-known texts.

Author : R. Bracht Branham,Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520921986

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The Cynics by R. Bracht Branham,Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé Pdf

This collection of essays—the first of its kind in English—brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophical and cultural significance of Cynicism from antiquity to the present. Arguably the most original and influential branch of the Socratic tradition, Cynicism has become the focus of renewed scholarly interest in recent years, thanks to the work of Sloterdijk, Foucault, and Bakhtin, among others. The contributors to this volume—classicists, comparatists, and philosophers—draw on a variety of methodologies to explore the ethical, social and cultural practices inspired by the Cynics. The volume also includes an introduction, appendices, and an annotated bibliography, making it a valuable resource for a broad audience.

Author : Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler,Gabriela Ryser
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647540306

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Reading the Way to the Netherworld by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler,Gabriela Ryser Pdf

The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.

Author : E. Anne MacKay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004112731

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Signs of Orality by E. Anne MacKay Pdf

This volume presents essays by leading scholars on the nature of orality as represented by the Homeric poems, and the effect of the oral way of thinking on the subsequent literate and literary development of ancient Greek and Roman culture.

Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004327504

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Lucian by Graham Anderson Pdf

Author : Leah Kronenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139488631

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Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome by Leah Kronenberg Pdf

In this book Professor Kronenberg shows that Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Varro's De Re Rustica and Virgil's Georgics are not simply works on farming but belong to a tradition of philosophical satire which uses allegory and irony to question the meaning of morality. These works metaphorically connect farming and its related arts to political life; but instead of presenting farming in its traditional guise as a positive symbol, they use it to model the deficiencies of the active life, which in turn is juxtaposed to a preferred contemplative way of life. Although these three texts are not usually treated together, this book convincingly connects them with an original and provocative interpretation of their allegorical use of farming. It also fills an important gap in our understanding of the literary influences on the Georgics by showing that it is shaped not just by its poetic predecessors but by philosophical dialogue.

Author : Of Samosata Lucian
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664176288

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Trips to the Moon by Of Samosata Lucian Pdf

"Trips to the Moon" by Of Samosata Lucian was originally written in the 2nd century, though it was later translated in the late 1800s. A satire about society through the lens of the ancient Greeks, the book is just as fun and insightful to read now as it was nearly two thousand years ago when it was first penned.

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603840323

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The Golden Ass by Apuleius Pdf

Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included.

Author : Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781107030183

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The Cambridge Introduction to Satire by Jonathan Greenberg Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

Author : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483032

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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination by Karen ní Mheallaigh Pdf

This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch's mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata.

Author : H. K. Riikonen,Gunnar af Hällström,Leena Pietilä-Castrén,Sven-Erik Åström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary form
ISBN : OSU:32435027814078

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Menippean Satire as a Literary Genre by H. K. Riikonen,Gunnar af Hällström,Leena Pietilä-Castrén,Sven-Erik Åström Pdf