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Author | : Richard Hunter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108915663 |
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Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as on the transmission and reception of 'canonical' poetry; many of these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first modern commentary on a selection of these poems. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully explained, accompanied by sophisticated literary discussion of the poems. There is a full introduction to the nature of these poems and to their context within Greek ideas of death and the afterlife. This comprehensive edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
Author | : R. Hunter |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
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Download Greek Epitaphic Poetry. A Selection Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Hunter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108843980 |
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The first accessible modern commentary on a selection of Greek inscribed epitaphs from c. 600 BC until late antiquity.
Author | : Sarah Nooter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2023-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009320351 |
Download Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.
Author | : Federica Scicolone |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2023-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004545719 |
Download The Language of Objects: Deixis in Descriptive Greek Epigrams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Language of Objects sheds new light on the sub-genre of Greek descriptive epigram, focusing on deictic reference as a springboard to understand three different approaches to the materiality of texts: imagination-oriented deixis, pointing to referents conjured in the reader’s mind; ocular deixis, addressing perceivable referents; displaced deixis, underscoring the subjective response of readers/viewers. Uniquely combining overlooked verse-inscriptions and well-known literary and inscribed texts, which are freshly re-examined through a cognitive lens, this volume explores the evolution of deixis in descriptive epigrams dating from the pre-Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. With its original analysis, the book pushes forward the study of Greek epigram and current understanding of deixis in ancient poetry.
Author | : Ewen Bowie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1071 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009353527 |
Download Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, fifth-century historiography, and Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. Many are already essential reading, such as the chapter on the figure of Lycidas in Theocritus' Idyll 7, or two chapters on the ancient readership of Greek novels. Discussions of Imperial Greek poetry published three decades ago opened up a world almost entirely neglected by scholars. Several chapters address literary and linguistic issues in Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe, complementing the author's commentary published in 2019; two contribute to a better understanding of the enigmatic Aethiopica of Heliodorus; and many explore important questions arising from examination of the form of the Greek novel as a whole. This is the second of a planned three-volume collection.
Author | : Maria Kanellou |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0198836821 |
Download Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finest Greek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound interest on Latin literature, and it continues to inspire and influence modern translations and imitations. After a long period of neglect, research on epigram has surged during recent decades, and this volume draws on the fruits of that renewed scholarly engagement. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors or anthologies, but with the evolution of particular subgenres over time, and provides a selection of in-depth treatments of key aspects of Greek literary epigram of the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods.0Individual chapters offer insights into a variety of topics, from explorations of the dynamic interactions between poets and their predecessors and contemporaries, and of the relationship between epigram and its socio-political, cultural, and literary background from the third century BCE up until the sixth century CE, to its interaction with its origins, inscribed epigram more generally, other literary genres, the visual arts, and Latin poetry, as well as the process of editing and compilation which generated the collections which survived into the modern world. Through the medium of individual studies the volume as a whole seeks to offer a sense of this vibrant and dynamic poetic form and its world which will be of value to scholars and students of Greek epigram and classical literature more broadly.
Author | : Ewen Bowie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1071 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107058120 |
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Assembles a major scholar's work on Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry and the novels over four decades, illustrating its evolution.
Author | : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2023-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3111340945 |
Download Labor Imperfectus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception and interpretation, and how does it still influence them today? Also, how do various editorial arrangements of fragmentary texts influence the reconstruction of closure? These important questions offer the opportunity to bring together specialists working on Greek and Roman texts across various genres: epic, tragedy, poetry, mythographic texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical treatises, and the novel. Reading a text by focusing on its current unfinishedness or incompleteness, or the textual signs suggesting an unfinished or incomplete state, the contributors examine the relations between author, reader and text as underscored by the verbal, generic and aesthetic features of each work. This edited volume brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ancient and modern texts and aims to reach out to a broad scholarly community consisting not only of Classicists but also scholars of other literature and aesthetics.
Author | : Lykophron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2022-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0192608452 |
Download Lykophron: Alexandra Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably written c. 190, when Rome had defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians and was poised to humble the Seleukid king Antiochos III. The poem is an ingeniously constructed masterpiece, a generic mix with elements of tragedy, epic, and history. Priam's beautiful daughter, the prophetic Kassandra, foresees her rape in Athena's temple by the hateful Greek warrior Ajax after Troy's fall, and warns of disastrous returns (nostoi) for all the Greek 'heroes'. But Troy will rise again as Rome, founded by Trojan refugees. Alexandra (another name for Kassandra), narrates these Mediterranean foundation myths, adopting a bitterly disillusioned female perspective, but culminating in prophecies of Roman rule over land and sea.