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Author | : Laura Massetti |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2024-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004694137 |
Download Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers an updated translation of the text and an investigation of the main interpretative issues of the epinicion with the aid of historical linguistics. By identifying devices which Pindar might have inherited from earlier periods of poetic language, the study provides insights into the thematic aspects of the ode as well as on Pindar’s compositional technique.
Author | : P.J. Finglass |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2024-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3111384144 |
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A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Danaë. This book demonstrates the significance of this discovery for our understanding of Greek tragedy. After setting out the mythological and dramatic context, and offering a new text and translation based on autopsy, the book analyses the light which the papyrus sheds on these plays, whose narratives, centred on female resistance to abusive male tyrants, speak as powerfully to us today as they did to their original audiences. It then investigates Euripides’ tragic trilogy of 431 BC, which ended with Dictys and began with Medea, whose dramatic power now stands in sharper focus given our improved understanding of the production in which it originally appeared. Finally, it ponders the purpose which these hypotheses served, and why readers in the second century AD should have wanted a summary of plays written more than half a millennium before. All Greek (and Latin) is translated, making the book accessible not just to classicists, but to theatre historians and to anyone interested in Greek literature, drama, and mythology.
Author | : Xerox University Microfilms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Segal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Apollo (Greek deity) in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Total Pages | : 1608 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Humanities |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lowell Edmunds |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691202338 |
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It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became known. Investigating Helen’s status in ancient Greek sources, Edmunds argues that if Helen was just one trope of the abducted wife, the quest for Helen’s origin in Spartan cult can be abandoned, as can the quest for an Indo-European goddess who grew into the Helen myth. He explains that Helen was not a divine essence but a narrative figure that could replicate itself as needed, at various times or places in ancient Greece. Edmunds recovers some of these narrative Helens, such as those of the Pythagoreans and of Simon Magus, which then inspired the Helens of the Faust legend and Goethe. Stealing Helen offers a detailed critique of prevailing views behind the "real" Helen and presents an eye-opening exploration of the many sources for this international mythical and literary icon.
Author | : Asya C. Sigelman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110713501X |
Download Pindar's Poetics of Immortality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers a new approach to Pindar's victory odes by focusing on their poetic aim of immortalization.
Author | : University of Edinburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 1952 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : P. J. Finglass |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 587 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107189055 |
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A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.
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Release | : 1892 |
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