Talking Trojan

Author : Hilary Susan Mackie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0847682552

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Talking Trojan by Hilary Susan Mackie Pdf

In this penetrating new look at the use of language in the Iliad, Hilary Mackie examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms not only of nationality but of linguistics. The way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, Mackie argues, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative positions in the Trojan War. While Achaean speech is aggressive and public, intended to preserve social order, Trojan language is more reflective, private, and introspective. Mackie identifies the differences between Greek and Trojan language by analyzing poetic formulas, usually thought to indicate a similarity of language among Homeric characters, and conversations, which are seen here to be of equal importance to the numerous speeches throughout the Iliad. Mackie concludes with analyses of the two great heroes of the Iliad, Hektor and Achilles, and the extent to which they represent their own cultures in their use of language.

Author : Julia Kindt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009411370

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The Trojan Horse and Other Stories by Julia Kindt Pdf

What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer and more venerable history. In the West, it goes all the way back to classical antiquity. This grippingly written and provocative book boldly reveals how the ancient world mobilised concepts of 'the animal' and 'animality' to conceive of the human in a variety of illuminating ways. Through ten stories about marvelous mythical beings – from the Trojan Horse to the Cyclops, and from Androcles' lion to the Minotaur – Julia Kindt unlocks fresh ways of thinking about humanity that extend from antiquity to the present and that ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are.

Author : Miguel Carvalho Abrantes
Publisher : Miguel Carvalho Abrantes
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788829541539

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Themes of the Trojan Cycle by Miguel Carvalho Abrantes Pdf

The story of the Trojan War presented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, is incomplete. This book completes it. Originally presented as a thesis in the University of Coimbra (Portugal), this book reconstructs the plot of the Trojan War between the Iliad and the Odyssey. In order to do so, it uses the direct knowledge the authors of the Antiquity had of those subjects, but also iconographic sources, presenting them all and showing how they contribute to a faithful reconstruction of the Trojan Cycle, as it was known over 2000 years ago. Among the episodes reconstructed here are, for example, the battle against Penthesilea, the death of Achilles and the famous ruse of the Trojan Horse. This is a work interesting not only for those who already read the Iliad and the Odyssey, but also for everyone who has some interest in Greek and Roman Mythology.

Author : Ben David Duncan
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643006642

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#11 The Little Trojan That Could by Ben David Duncan Pdf

An exciting story of the immigration struggles of an Indonesian family. Fleeing their home country, they spent ten years in Dutch immigrant camps. After receiving permission they came to America, with a dream of freedom! One family member took that dream and reached the impossible! Young Chris made his way, through countless obstacles, to establish his name in U.S.C. football lore. This pint-sized nobody, etched his name into Trojan and Rose Bowl history! Few gave him a chance to succeed in a game of giants. He wouldn't be denied! Earlier, he met a young coach from Oklahoma. Although Chris and "Coach D" came from totally different backgrounds, they teamed to develop a new kicking style in California high school football. The rest is history! The kid, with a big heart, taught us to "reach for the stars!" Chris Limahelu will always be: "#11 - The Little Trojan That Could!"

Author : Tamara Neal
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039108794

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The Wounded Hero by Tamara Neal Pdf

This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plot of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.

Author : Phillip Parotti
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048711058

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The Trojan Generals Talk by Phillip Parotti Pdf

"In the manner of Robert Graves, Parotti extrapolates events from Homeric epic and vividly recreates scenes of the Trojan war from the viewpoints of lesser-known players. This companion book to The Greek Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War comprises dramatic monologues in which 10 aged veteran commanders nurse their war wounds in far-flung locations around the Mediterranean, while assessing the fall of Troy. They discuss errors of strategy and bemoan the war's carnage and the loss of loved ones. The style of their retelling echoes Homer, yet the idiom is contemporary. Many offer opinions of Helen, the "Spartan whore." Medon, savoring a cup of bitter Thracian wine, believes that Helen was not the cause; this was really a trade war, waged to wrest control of the sea from Priam. Pyracchmes, former leader of the archers, finds himself mining silver in Mt. Laurion in Attica. Hate, back home in Alybe, says Paris should have been executed as the prophecy had urged. Parotti, professor of English at Sam Houston State University, provides a note on the legends of Bronze Age Troy (whose site is in modern Turkey) and its downfall in 1250-1185 BC There are maps, a glossary and a gazetteer. This book will be especially prized by readers familiar with Greek myth and epic."--Publishers Weekly

Author : Ndekha, Louis
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863099510

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Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel by Ndekha, Louis Pdf

Author : D. N. Marōnitēs
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0739108832

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Homeric Megathemes by D. N. Marōnitēs Pdf

In Homeric Megathemes D.N. Maronitis puts forward war, homilia, and homecoming as three themes central to Homer's two epic poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey. Branching out from each of these themes are certain semiotic and structural characteristics that determine, specific to each of the poems, myth and plot, narrative syntax, and more generally, their poetic and humanistic character. The aim of Maronitis' study is to determine and document similarities and differences in the two Homeric epics through these themes and to identify examples of them in ancient lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. Maronitis' theoretical framework gives classics scholars and literary theorists interested in poetry, history, and tragedy a social and cultural research model for thinking about the genesis and maturity of great lyric works. His comparative approach, revealing the creative debt of the Odyssey to the Iliadic model, lays bare the progression of an art form through the development of literary technique, the shifts in classical ideologies (including anthropoligical ideas about "man"), and in politics. Anyone interested in the thought of the Archaic period should read this book.

Author : Euripides,Anne Carson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780811230803

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The Trojan Women: A Comic by Euripides,Anne Carson Pdf

A fantastic comic-book collaboration between the artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet Anne Carson, based on Euripides’s famous tragedy A NEW YORK TIMES BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021 Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides’s classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose mind is in another world).

Author : Jonathan Ready,Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477316054

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Homer in Performance by Jonathan Ready,Christos Tsagalis Pdf

Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts—performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it—are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters. The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore.

Author : Laura Riding,Laura (Riding) Jackson
Publisher : Manchester : Carcanet
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039973107

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A Trojan Ending by Laura Riding,Laura (Riding) Jackson Pdf

Retells the story of the siege of Troy from the point of view of the Trojans and the Greek invaders."

Author : Quintus of Smyrna,Quintus (Smyrnaeus)
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : History
ISBN : 080188635X

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The Trojan Epic by Quintus of Smyrna,Quintus (Smyrnaeus) Pdf

Brilliantly revitalized by James, the Trojan Epic will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in Greek mythology and the legend of Troy.

Author : Janette H. Ok
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567698537

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Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter by Janette H. Ok Pdf

Janette H. Ok argues that 1 Peter characterizes Christian identity as an ethnic identity, as it holds the potential to engender a powerful sense of solidarity for readers who are experiencing social alienation as a result of their conversion. The epistle describes and delineates a communal identity based on Jewish traditions, and in response to the hostility its largely Gentile Anatolian addressees are experiencing as religious minorities in the Roman empire. In order to help construct a collective understanding of what it means to be a Christian in contrast to non-Christians, Ok argues that the author of the epistle employs “ethnic reasoning” or logic. Consequently, the writer of 1 Peter makes use of various literary and rhetorical strategies, including establishing a sense of shared history and ancestry, delineating boundaries, stereotyping and negatively characterizing “the other,” emphasizing distinct conduct or a common culture, and applying ethnic categories to his addressees. Ok further highlights how these strategies bear striking resemblances to what modern anthropologists and sociologists describe as the characteristics of ethnic groups. In depicting Christian identity as an ethnic identity akin to the unique religious-ethnic identity of the Jews, Ok concludes that 1 Peter seeks to foster internal cohesion among the community of believers who are struggling to forge a distinctive and durable group identity, resist external pressures to revert to a way of life unbefitting the people of God, and live as those born anew to a living hope.

Author : David Bruce
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041995615

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The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Epic Poems Retold by David Bruce Pdf

"The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Epic Poems Retold" by David Bruce is a captivating retelling of the timeless tales surrounding the legendary conflict of the Trojan War and its far-reaching consequences. Drawing from ancient sources such as Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," as well as other classical works, Bruce weaves together a rich tapestry of myths, heroes, and gods to create a compelling narrative that brings the ancient world to life. Through vivid prose and meticulous attention to detail, Bruce guides readers through the epic events of the Trojan War, from the famed duel between Achilles and Hector to the cunning stratagems of Odysseus and the tragic fall of Troy. Along the way, he introduces readers to a host of unforgettable characters, from the valorous warriors to the cunning goddesses, each with their own motivations and desires. But Bruce's narrative doesn't end with the fall of Troy; instead, he explores the aftermath of the war and its impact on the heroes and heroines who survived. From the trials of Odysseus as he struggles to find his way home to the tragic fate of the Trojan women, Bruce delves deep into the human drama and emotional resonance of these timeless stories, revealing the enduring power of myth to illuminate the human condition.

Author : Alan Shepard,Stephen David Powell Powell
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0772720258

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Fantasies of Troy by Alan Shepard,Stephen David Powell Powell Pdf

For medieval and early modern Europeans, contemporary culture was often refracted through the legend of Troy, arguably the most important set of stories outside the Bible for centuries of western European history. These stories were transmitted in dozens of competing versions, and contemporary local events were habitually understood in the context of a pagan legend whose origins were remote and whose mandate was ambiguous. The fifteen essays in this volume offer compelling new treatments of these now-evaporated fantasies of Troy, which were central to the European social imaginary. The essays consider texts and performances of Troy across a wide generic range, from learned court poetry to burlesque, from treatises on linguistic history to public spectacles.