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Author : Nicander of Colophon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521141141
This volume gathers together the poems of Nicander, which includes the original Greek poetry with a parallel page translation.
Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136787997
Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author : A. S. F. Gow,A. F. Scholfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107624078
Originally published in 1953, this volume gathers together the poems of Nicander (2nd century BC), the renowned Ancient Greek poet, physician, and grammarian. Consummately edited, the text contains the original Greek poetry with a parallel page translation, together with a brief biography, an introduction to the verse, and a generous notes section at the end. This remains a fascinating edition that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Nicander.
Author : Floris Overduin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004283602
In this book Floris Overduin highlights the artistic merits of Nicander’s Theriaca (2nd century BCE), a Hellenistic didactic poem on snakes and curative herbs. The commentary, preceded by an extensive introduction, aims to show Nicander’s literary, rather than scientific aims.
Author : Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9781888456028
Author : David Sider
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472053131
A major new collection of use to all students and scholars working on Hellenistic Greek poetry
Author : Nicander
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015042815327
Medicine, zoology, botany and minerology are the themes of Nicander's two extant poems of the Hellenistic period. Fragments of other poems also survive, and these had an influence on later poets, notably Virgil and Ovid. This translated edition was first published in 1953 and is fully annotated.
Author : Lilah Grace Canevaro,Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781910589915
Here a team of established scholars offers new perspectives on poetic texts of wisdom, learning and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. In previous scholarship, a drive to classify Greek and Latin didactic poetry has engaged with the near-total absence in ancient literary criticism of explicit discussion of didactic as a discrete genre. The present volume approaches didactic poetry from different perspectives: the diachronic, mapping the development of didactic through changing social and political landscapes (from Homer and Hesiod to Neo-Latin didactic); and the comparative, setting the Graeco-Roman tradition against a wider backdrop (including ancient near-eastern and contemporary African traditions). The issues raised include knowledge in its relation to power; the cognitive strategies of the didactic text; ethics and poetics; the interplay of obscurity and clarity, playfulness and solemnity; the authority of the teacher.
Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2407 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135942137
Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Author : Nicander (of Colophon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1017348174
Author : Peter Toohey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135035334
Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic 'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review
Author : Otto Steen Due
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8772890886
Changing Forms - Studies in the Metamorphoses of Ovid
Author : Alan Cameron
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400887422
Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. Abundant evidence, much of it assembled here for the first time, suggests a very different story: a world of civic festivals rather than books and libraries, a world in which poetry and poets played a central and public role. In the course of the argument, Cameron casts fresh light on the lives, dates, works, and interrelationships of most of the other leading poets of the age. Another axiom of modern scholarship is that the object of Callimachus's literary polemic was epic. Yet Cameron shows that the thriving school of epic poets celebrating the wars of Hellenistic kings that has so dominated modern study simply never existed. Elegy was the fashionable genre of the age, and the bone of contention between Callimachus and his rivals (all fellow elegists) was the nature of elegiac narrative. A final chapter sketches some of the implications of this revised view of Callimachus and his world for the interpretation of Roman, especially Augustan, poetry. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : George Kazantzidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110660470
The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels and wondrous occurrences without providing an answer as to how these phenomena can be explained. Its main aim is to astonish and leave its readers bewildered and confused. By contrast, medicine is committed to the rational explanation of human phusis, which makes it, in a number of significant ways, incompatible with thauma. This volume moves beyond the binary opposition between ‘rational’ and ‘non-rational’ modes of thinking, by focusing on instances in which the paradox is construed with direct reference to established medical sources and beliefs or, inversely, on cases in which medical discourse allows space for wonder and admiration. Its aim is to show that thauma, rather than present a barrier, functions as a concept which effectively allows for the dialogue between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.
Author : Monica Gale
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781914535116
How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.