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The Birds in the Iliad

Author : Karin Johansson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Birds
ISBN : 917346712X

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The Birds in the Iliad by Karin Johansson Pdf

As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, "nature" and "culture", the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. The investigation aims at determining the various species of the birds in the Iliad as far as this is possible with the help of ornithological methods and tries through semiotics and hermeneutics to ascertain the symbolic.

Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age

Author : Joakim Goldhahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108499095

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Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age by Joakim Goldhahn Pdf

Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

The Iliad

Author : Bruce Louden
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801889189

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The Iliad by Bruce Louden Pdf

Extending his distinctive analysis of Homeric epic to the Iliad, Bruce Louden, author of The "Odyssey": Structure, Narration, and Meaning, again presents new approaches to understanding the themes and story of the poem. In this thought-provoking study, he demonstrates how repeated narrative motifs argue for an expanded understanding of the structure of epic poetry. First identifying the "subgenres" of myth within the poem, he then reads these against related mythologies of the Near East, developing a context in which the poem can be more accurately interpreted. Louden begins by focusing on the ways in which the Iliad's three movements correspond with and comment on each other. He offers original interpretations of many episodes, notably in books 3 and 7, and makes new arguments about some well-known controversies (e.g., the duals in book 9), the Iliad's use of parody, the function of theomachy, and the prefiguring of Hektor as a sacrificial victim in books 3 and 6. The second part of the book compares fourteen subgenres of myth in the Iliad to contemporaneous Near Eastern traditions such as those of the Old Testament and of Ugaritic mythology. Louden concludes with an extended comparison of the Homeric Athena and Anat, a West Semitic goddess worshipped by the Phoenicians and Egyptians. Louden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry.

The Iliad of Homer, Etc. A New Edition. (A General View of the Epic Poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey, Extracted from Bussu.-Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. By Mr. Archdeacon Parnell, Corrected by Mr. Pope.).

Author : Homer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026443458

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The Iliad of Homer, Etc. A New Edition. (A General View of the Epic Poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey, Extracted from Bussu.-Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. By Mr. Archdeacon Parnell, Corrected by Mr. Pope.). by Homer Pdf

The Iliad of Homer

Author : Homer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375039134

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The Iliad of Homer by Homer Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.

The Iliad

Author : Geoffrey Stephen Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 0521281725

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The Iliad by Geoffrey Stephen Kirk Pdf

This is the second volume in the major six-volume commentary on The Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor Kirk. Volume I was published in 1985. As before the volume consists of four introductory essays followed by the commentary itself. The Greek text is not included. This project is the first large-scale commentary on The Iliad for nearly 100 years, and takes special account of language, style and thematic structure as well as of the complex social and cultural background to the work.

The Twenty-Second Book of the Iliad

Author : Homer,Alexandros Palles
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0530897423

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The Twenty-Second Book of the Iliad by Homer,Alexandros Palles Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z

Author : W. Geoffrey Arnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134556267

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Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z by W. Geoffrey Arnott Pdf

Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. W. Geoffrey Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies. The ancient Greek bird names are transliterated into English script, and all that the ancients said about birds is presented in English. This book is accordingly the first complete discussion of ancient bird names that will be accessible to readers without ancient Greek. The only large-scale examination of ancient birds for seventy years, the book has an exhaustive bibliography (partly classical scholarship and partly ornithological) to encourage further study, and provides students and ornithologists with the definitive study of ancient birds.

The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 2

Author : G. S. Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316582237

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The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 2 by G. S. Kirk Pdf

This is the second volume in the major six-volume commentary on The Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor Kirk. Volume I was published in 1985. As before the volume consists of four introductory essays followed by the commentary itself. The Greek text is not included. This project is the first large-scale commentary on The Iliad for nearly 100 years, and takes special account of language, style and thematic structure as well as of the complex social and cultural background to the work.

The Iliad of Homer

Author : Homer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:B000832003

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The Natural History of Birds from the French of the Count de Buffon. Illustrated with Engravings and a Preface, Notes, and Additions by the Translator [W. Smellie].

Author : George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024276113

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The Natural History of Birds from the French of the Count de Buffon. Illustrated with Engravings and a Preface, Notes, and Additions by the Translator [W. Smellie]. by George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.) Pdf

Homeric Epic and its Reception

Author : Seth L. Schein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191057854

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Homeric Epic and its Reception by Seth L. Schein Pdf

Homeric Epic and its Reception, comprising twelve chapter—some previously published but revised for this collection, and others appearing here in print for the first time—offers literary interpretations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. While some chapters closely study the diction, meter, style, and thematic resonance of particular passages and episodes in the Iliad and the Odyssey, others follow diverse pathways into the interpretation of the epics, including mythological allusion, intertextuality, the metrics of the Homeric hexameter, and the fundamental contrast between divinity and humanity. Also included are two chapters which focus on the work of Milman Parry and Ioannis Kakridis, founders of the two most fruitful twentieth-century scholarly approaches to Homeric scholarship: the study of the Iliad and the Odyssey as traditional oral formulaic poetry (Parry), and the study of the poems' adaptations and transformations of traditional mythology, folktales, and poetic motifs in accordance with their distinctive themes and poetic purposes (Kakridis). The volume draws to a close with three chapters which discuss some of the most compelling poetic and critical receptions of the Iliad and the Odyssey since the late nineteenth century, and the institutional reception of the epics in colleges and universities in the United States over the past two centuries. Written over a period of 45 years, this collection reflects the authors long-standing interest in, and scholarly and critical approaches to, the literary interpretation of Homeric poetry.

Omens and Oracles

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148951

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Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addition, there were written collections of oracles in circulation. Many books were available on how to interpret dreams, the birds and entrails, and divination as a religious phenomenon attracted the attention of many writers. Expert diviners were at the heart of Greek prophecy, whether these were Apollo’s priestesses delivering prose or verse answers to questions put to them by consultants, diviners known as manteis, who interpreted entrails and omens, the chresmologoi, who sang the many oracles circulating orally or in writing, or dream interpreters. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the future but also to ensure that the individual or state employing divination acted in accordance with that divinely prescribed future; it was employed by all and had a crucial role to play in what courses of action both states and individuals undertook. Specific attention is paid in this volume not only to the ancient written evidence, but to that of inscriptions and papyri, with emphasis placed on the iconography of Greek divination.

The Iliad

Author : Homer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324001812

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The Iliad by Homer Pdf

The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic—the most revered war poem of all time. The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world—the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters—both human and divine. The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.

The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Richard Perez,Victoria A. Chevalier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030398354

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The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century by Richard Perez,Victoria A. Chevalier Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.