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Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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This book is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. The aim of this book, which centers on ancient concepts of Homer as the author of a body of poetry that we know as the Iliad and the Odyssey, is to show how Homer's work became a classic in the days of the Athenian empire and later.
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2017-02-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520294874 |
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Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival “Homers” and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined “epic space” of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive.
Author | : Steven Runciman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Crusades |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Jenkyns |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465097987 |
Download Classical Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome’s empire. Jenkyns begins with Homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Later, in Athens’s classical age, Jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles’s choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, in “inventing history,” brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality. We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Even St. Paul and other early Christian writers are artfully grounded here in their classical literary context. A dynamic and comprehensive introduction to Greek and Roman literature, Jenkyns’s Classical Literature is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the classics—and the extraordinary origins of Western culture.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : László Krasznahorkai |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811227987 |
Download Chasing Homer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed—careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed—a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this instant, an instant that had no continuation … Krasznahorkai—celebrated for the exhilarating energy of his prose—outdoes himself in Chasing Homer. And this unique collaboration boasts beautiful full-color paintings by Max Neumann and—reaching out of the book proper—the wildly percussive music of Szilveszter Miklós scored for each chapter (to be accessed by the reader via QR codes).
Author | : William H. Race |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004065154 |
Download The Classical Priamel from Homer to Boethius Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Samuel Eliot Bassett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0520320379 |
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.
Author | : Adrian Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780751370782 |
Download The Odyssey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An abridged version of The Odyssey, retold for the younger reader but aiming to still convey the major incidents of Homer's epic masterpiece with a sense of power, mystery and excitement. Fact filled columns explore the historical and geographical background.
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.