The Poetics Of Failure In Ancient Greece

Author : Stamatia Dova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317021063

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The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece by Stamatia Dova Pdf

The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece offers an innovative approach to archaic and classical Greek literature by focusing on an original and rather unexplored topic. Through close readings of epic, lyric, and tragic poetry, the book engages into a thorough discourse on error, loss, and inadequacy as a personal and collective experience. Stamatia Dova revisits key passages from the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Pindar's epinician odes, Euripides' Herakles, and other texts to identify a poetics of failure that encompasses gods, heroes, athletes, and citizens alike. From Odysseus' shortcomings as a captain in the Odyssey to the defeat of anonymous wrestlers at the 460 B.C.E. Olympics in Pindar, this study examines failure from a mythological, literary, and historical perspective. Mindful of ancient Greek society's emphasis on honor and shame, Dova's in-depth analysis also sheds light on cultural responses to failure as well as on its preservation in societal memory, as in the case of Phrynichos' The Fall of Miletos in 493 B.C.E. Athens. Engaging for both scholars and students, this book is key reading for those interested in how ancient Greek literary paradigms tried to answer the question of how and why we fail.

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0801480221

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The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece by Claude Calame Pdf

In this subtle, learned, and daring book, Claude Calame subverts common assumptions about the relationships between poet and audience, challenging his readers to rethink the very principles of mythmaking in the poetry and art of the ancient Greeks.

Author : Charles H. Stocking,Susan A. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780192607621

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Ancient Greek Athletics by Charles H. Stocking,Susan A. Stephens Pdf

The Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ideologies of ancient athletics. The sources in this collection are arranged chronologically from the Archaic Period to the Roman Imperial Era, with an extensive appendix discussing key themes and topics. The organization and in-depth presentation of textual sources is designed to help students, scholars, and general readers fully appreciate the broader social and cultural significance of ancient Greek athletics as it developed in different historical time periods throughout antiquity.

Author : Therese Fuhrer, Janja Soldo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111317144

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Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature by Therese Fuhrer, Janja Soldo Pdf

Author : Maciej Paprocki,Gary Patrick Vos,David John Wright
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110678437

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The Staying Power of Thetis by Maciej Paprocki,Gary Patrick Vos,David John Wright Pdf

In 1991, Laura Slatkin published The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad, in which she argued that Homer knowingly situated the storyworld of the Iliad against the backdrop of an older world of mythos by which the events in the Iliad are explained and given traction. Slatkin’s focus was on Achilles’ mother, Thetis: an ostensibly marginal and powerless goddess, Thetis nevertheless drives the plot of the Iliad, being allusively credited with the power to uphold or challenge the rule of Zeus. Now, almost thirty years after Slatkin’s publication, this timely volume re-examines depictions and receptions of this ambiguous goddess, in works ranging from archaic Greek poetry to twenty-first century cinema. Twenty authors build upon Slatkin’s readings to explore Thetis and multiple roles she played in Western literature, art, material culture, religion, and myth. Ever the shapeshifter, Thetis has been and continues to be reconceptualised: supporter or opponent of Zeus’ regime, model bride or unwilling victim of Peleus’ rape, good mother or child-murderess, figure of comedy or monstrous witch. Hers is an enduring power of transformation, resonating within art and literature.

Author : Peter Mackridge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0714647519

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Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry by Peter Mackridge Pdf

This volume contains essays by 15 scholars. One essay deals with myth in the Cretan renaissance (16th-17th centuries), while the rest cover the use of ancient myth by 19th- and 20th-century poets. Finally, Peter Bien compares attitudes to the ancient Greeks in English and modern Greek poetry.

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080872313

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Greek Mythology by Claude Calame Pdf

Argues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.

Author : Charles H. Stocking
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : France
ISBN : 9780192862877

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Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force by Charles H. Stocking Pdf

The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in the Iliad from both philological and philosophical perspectives. Each chapter explores the different types of Iliadic force in combination with the reception of the Iliad in the French intellectual tradition. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the different terms for force in the Iliad give expression to distinct relations between self and "other." At the same time, this book reveals how the Iliad as a whole undermines the very relations of force which characters within the poem seek to establish. Ultimately, this study of force in the Iliad offers an occasion to reconsider human subjectivity in Homeric poetry.

Author : Lowell Edmunds,Robert W. Wallace
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801867355

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Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece by Lowell Edmunds,Robert W. Wallace Pdf

Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore be viewed in the context of its performance. In Poetry, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, Lowell Edmunds and Robert W. Wallace bring together a distinguished group of contributors to reconstruct the performance context of a wide array of works, including epic, tragedy, lyric, elegy, and proverb. Analyzing the passage in the Odyssey in which a collective delirium comes over the suitors, Giulio Guidorizzi reveals how the poet describes a scene that lies outside the narrative themes and diction of epic. Antonio Aloni offers a reading of Simonides' elegy for the Greeks who fell at Plataea. Lowell Edmunds interprets the so-called seal of Theognis as lying on a borderline between the performed and the textual. Taking up proverbs, maxims, and apothegms, Joseph Russo examines "the performance of wisdom." Charles Segal focuses on the unusual role played by the chorus in Euripides' Bacchae. Reading the plot of Euripides' Ion, Thomas Cole concludes that the task of constructing the meaning of the play is to some extent delegated to the public. Robert Wallace describes the "performance" of the Athenian audience and provides a catalog of good and bad behavior: whistling, shouting, and throwing objects of every kind. Finally, Maria Grazia Bonanno stresses the importance of performance in lyric poetry.

Author : Margaret Mullett,Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351358491

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Managing Emotion in Byzantium by Margaret Mullett,Susan Ashbrook Harvey Pdf

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire’s ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of understanding how emotional communities work and where the ancients’ concepts of emotion differ from our own, and Byzantinists have begun to consider emotions other than sorrow. It is time to look at what is distinctive about Byzantine emotion. This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, these papers address issues such as power, gender, rhetoric, or asceticism in Byzantine society through the lens of a single emotion or cluster of emotions. Contributors focus not only on the construction of emotions with respect to perception and cognition but also explore how emotions were communicated and exchanged across broad (multi)linguistic, political and social boundaries. Priorities are twofold: to arrive at an understanding of what the Byzantines thought of as emotions and to comprehend how theory shaped their appraisal of reality. Managing Emotion in Byzantium will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in Byzantine perceptions of emotion, Byzantine Culture, and medieval perceptions of emotion.

Author : Marian Zwerling Sugano
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804719462

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The Poetics of the Occasion by Marian Zwerling Sugano Pdf

"Although Mallarme is commonly viewed as the high priest of the autonomous work of art, by far the bulk of his actual poetic writing was occasional verse. With few exceptions the works written after 1873 manifest a reinvestment in the world subsequent to the metaphysical crises of the 1860's. In addition to the "Tombeaux," the toasts, and certain of the "Eventails," Mallarme composed the Vers de circonstance, more than 450 quatrains and distichs inscribed on envelopes, postcards, calling cards, Easter eggs, small stones, photographs, and jugs of Calvados. This is the first comprehensive reading and analysis of the neglected late poetry, heretofore dismissed as of marginal interest." "This book has a dual purpose. By exploring the occasional verse of Mallarme, which itself thematizes the problematics of the occasion, the author seeks to rehabilitate such writing for critical study. She does this not by proclaiming its high seriousness, but by insisting on its casual, amenable, public nature. Unlike previous critics, who have often apologized for straying into the fringes of the canon, the author delights in the marginal, insisting that in a poetics of the occasion, traditional oppositions such as center/margin become skewed and break down." "The author's second purpose is to come to a better understanding of Mallarme in light of what he actually wrote, rather than the work projected in his correspondence and prose articles, which has claimed so much critical attention. Each of the chapters of the book highlights one aspect of occasional poetry through an investigation of representative texts, both canonical and occasional. The author also discusses the relationship between Mallarme's poetics and the plastic arts, tracing the changing conception of the representation of the monument from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as well as the correspondences between the more radical aspects of Mallarme's practice of writing and the contemporary arts." "Far more than a study of a single writer, this book is the first to propose a pragmatic definition of occasional literature, to undertake a broad study of the problem of occasion in literature, and to trace the historical trajectory of occasional writing as a specific discourse. The book is illustrated with 27 halftones."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Bruno Gentili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005294157

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Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece by Bruno Gentili Pdf

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521110778

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The Greeks and Their Past by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.

Author : Nigel Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190493301

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The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West by Nigel Nicholson Pdf

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives and that these two forms-epinician and the hero-athlete narrative-promoted opposed political visions, with epinician promoting the Deinomenid empire and its structures and the hero-athlete narrative opposing Deinomenid rule. Combining an intimate knowledge of the material culture of the Greek West with an innovative use of available source material, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West exposes the rich intersections between athletics and politics in Sicily and Italy, offering a new and compelling account of Deinomenid self-promotion and of the varied and complex communities that operated under the Deinomenids' control or within their shadow. Further, by establishing models of production and interpretation for the orally transmitted narratives and bringing them into dialogue with epinician, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West reveals much about epinician as a form, how it developed in the Greek West, what meanings it already carried, and what meanings it accrued as it was appropriated by Hieron the second Deinomenid ruler.

Author : Arnold Wycombe Gomme
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Greek Attitude to Poetry and History by Arnold Wycombe Gomme Pdf