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Author | : Cathy Gere |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674021703 |
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Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II) Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon, still stands in a remote corner of mainland Greece. Revered in antiquity as the pagan world's most tangible connection to the heroes of the Trojan War, Mycenae leapt into the headlines in the late nineteenth century when Heinrich Schliemann announced that he had opened the Tomb of Agamemnon and found the body of the hero smothered in gold treasure. Now Mycenae is one of the most haunting and impressive archaeological sites in Europe, visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the western imagination. As the backdrop to one of the most famous military campaigns of all time, Agamemnon's city has served for generation after generation as a symbol of the human appetite for war. As an archaeological site, it has given its name to the splendors of one of Europe's earliest civilizations: the Mycenaean Age. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins--from the Cult of the Hero that sprung up in the shadow of the great burned walls in the eighth century bc, to the time after Schliemann's excavations when the Homeric warriors were resurrected to play their part in the political tragedies of the twentieth century.
Author | : John Henry Haaren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Classical biography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781537484303 |
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The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the Agamemnon depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in character. Yet not Milton himself could produce in English the same great music, and a translator who should strive ambitiously to represent the complex effect of the original would clog his own powers of expression and strain his instrument to breaking. But, apart from the diction in this narrower sense, there is a quality of atmosphere surrounding the Agamemnon which seems almost to defy reproduction in another setting, because it depends in large measure on the position of the play in the historical development of Greek literature.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2013-04-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1627930310 |
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Aeschylus was a Greek playwright considered to be the founder of the tragedy. Aeschylus along with Sophocles and Euripides are the three major Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Before Aeschylus, characters in a play only interacted with the chorus. Aeschylus expanded the number of actors allowing for interaction among the characters. Seven of his 92 plays have survived. The Persian invasion of Greece, which took place during his lifetime, influenced many of his plays. The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus, which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The plays were "Agamemnon," "Choephorae" (The Libation-Bearers), and the "Eumenides" (Furies).
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104608552 |
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah Hitch |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.
Author | : David Grene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Greek drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Aris and Phillips Classical Te |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1911226460 |
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First English edition with commentary on one of Euripides' finest texts for 125 years, comprising two volumes sold together as a set (Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes).