Theocritus S Urban Mimes

Author : Joan B. Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520088581

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Theocritus's Urban Mimes by Joan B. Burton Pdf

Subtitled `mobility, gender and patronage', Burton is concerned here with the application of modern issues and questions to an understanding of Theocritus' poems, which she believes give us representations of `the experiences of urban Greeks in a mobile Hellenistic world which highlight issus of gender relations, colonialism, immigration and cultural dislocation'. Each section focuses on a different issue, with consideration of general scholarly opinion and the author's own views.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004466715

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Brill's Companion to Theocritus by Anonim Pdf

Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.

Author : Theodore D. Papanghelis,Antonios Rengakos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047400462

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A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius by Theodore D. Papanghelis,Antonios Rengakos Pdf

This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by fourteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's literary and cultural reception. The aim is to give an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and to provide a survey of recent and current trends in Apollonian studies which will be useful to students of Hellenistic poetry in general as well as to scholars with a specialised interest in Apollonius.

Author : Theodore D. Papanghelis,Antonios Rengakos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004217140

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Brill's Companion to Apollonius Rhodius by Theodore D. Papanghelis,Antonios Rengakos Pdf

This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by eighteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's literary and cultural reception. The aim of this 2nd edition is to give an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and to provide a survey of recent and current trends in Apollonian studies which will be useful also to students of Hellenistic poetry in general.

Author : Poulheria Kyriakou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110615272

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Theocritus and his native Muse by Poulheria Kyriakou Pdf

Hellenistic poets opted and were very likely expected to deal meaningfully, and perhaps competitively, with the tradition they inherited. They also needed to secure the goodwill of actual or potential patrons. Apollonius, the author of a novel heroic epic, eschews references to literary polemics and patronage. Callimachus often adopts a polemical stance against some colleagues in order to suggest his poetic excellence. Theocritus chooses a third way, which has not been investigated adequately. He avoids antagonism but ironizes the theme of poetic excellence and distances himself from the tradition of competitive success. He does not cast his narrators as superior to predecessors and contemporaries but stresses the advantages and merits of colleagues. This rejection of conceit is connected with a major strand in Theocritean poetry: the power of word, including song, to provide assistance to characters in distress is a major open issue. Language is versatile and potent but not all-powerful. Song gives pleasure but is not a panacea while instruction and advice are never helpful and may even prove harmful. Most genuine pieces are ambiguous and open-ended so that the aspirations of characters are not presented as doomed to failure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004284784

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Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy by Anonim Pdf

Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy is the reader's 'back stage pass' into the hustle and bustle, the sights and sounds of Roman tragedy, stressing the creative collusion of Republican and Imperial drama and with the historical moment they inhabited.

Author : Theocritus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 052157420X

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Theocritus: A Selection by Theocritus Pdf

This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition. The focus of the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited the classical heritage for a new type of poetry, and on what that poetry meant in the third century BC. The commentary, together with the introductory essays to each poem, makes a major contribution to the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form. The Introduction explores the meaning of 'bucolic', the presentation of a stylised countryside, the importance of eros in the bucolic world, and Theocritus' verbal and metrical style.

Author : Alison Sharrock,Rhiannon Ashley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134709762

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Fifty Key Classical Authors by Alison Sharrock,Rhiannon Ashley Pdf

A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major figures such as Homer, Plato, Catullus and Cicero, this book is a vital tool for all students of classical civilization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004436367

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The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

Night, in ancient Greece and Rome, was a mythological figure, a context for specialized knowledge, a semantic space in literature, and a setting for unique experiences. Fifteen case-studies here explore how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values in all these areas of ancient culture.

Author : Alfred Körte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Greek poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B4379777

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Hellenistic Poetry by Alfred Körte Pdf

Author : Lynn Enterline
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350073388

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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play by Lynn Enterline Pdf

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention. Key themes and topics include: -Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality -Classicism and commerce -Genre and mimesis -Rhetoric and aesthetics

Author : George Hinge,Jens A Krasilnikoff
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9788779347458

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Alexandria by George Hinge,Jens A Krasilnikoff Pdf

Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity, Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination with the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world as did Philo, Josephus and Clement. In various fashions, the four papers of Part I of the volume, Alexandria from Greece and Egypt, deal with the relationship between Ptolemaic Alexandria and its Greek past. However, the Egyptian origin and heritage also plays important roles for the arguments. The contributions to the second part of the book are devoted to discussions of various aspects of contact and development between Rome, Judaism and Christianity.

Author : Stratēs Kyriakidēs
Publisher : Levante
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015041988240

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Narrative Structure and Poetics in the Aeneid by Stratēs Kyriakidēs Pdf

Author : Simon Hornblower,Antony Spawforth,Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199545568

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The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower,Antony Spawforth,Esther Eidinow Pdf

The revised third edition of the 'Oxford Classical Dictionary' is the ultimate reference on the classical world containing over 6,200 entries. The 2003 revision includes minor corrections and updates and all Latin and Greek words in the text are now translated into English.

Author : Antonio Escohotado
Publisher : Graffiti Militante
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780982078778

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The General History of Drugs, Volume Two, Part One by Antonio Escohotado Pdf