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Author | : Stephen Ridd |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0806159464 |
Download Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid are three of the most important—and influential—works of Western classical literature. Although they differ in subject matter and authorship, these epic poems share a common purpose: to tell the “deeds both of men and of the gods.” Written in an accessible style and ideally suited for classroom use, Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil offers a unique comparative analysis of these classic works. As author Stephen Ridd explains, the common themes of communication, love, and death respond to “deeply ingrained human needs” and are therefore of perennial interest. Presenting select passages from the original Greek and Latin texts—translated here into modern English—Ridd explores in detail how the characters within the poems communicate on these subjects with one another as well as with the reader. Individual chapters focus on subjects such as the traditions of singing and storytelling, relationships between sons and mothers, the role of Helen of Troy and her ties to the men in her life, and communication with the dead. Throughout his analysis, Ridd treats the three poems on an equal basis, revealing similarities and differences in their handling of prevalent themes. By introducing readers to a new way of reading these abiding classics, Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil enhances our appreciation of the imaginative world of ancient Greek and Roman epic poetry.
Author | : Edan Dekel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edan Dekel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2012-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136653791 |
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Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. This work offers an alternate approach in which Virgil uses the transformative power of the Odyssey as a precise filter through which to read the Iliadic experience. By examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Dekel proposes a system in which the Aeneid uses the Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences. The traditional view of the Homeric poems as static sources for the construction of distinct "Odyssean" and "Iliadic" halves of the Aeneid is supplanted by an analysis which emphasizes the active and persistent influence of the Odyssey as a guide to processing the major thematic concerns of the Iliad and exploring the multiple aftermaths of the Trojan war.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486113973 |
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Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : K. W. Gransden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1984-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521287562 |
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In the course of re-establishing the value and importance of Books VII-XII of Virgil's Aeneid, this study also explores in some detail his use of Homer's Iliad.
Author | : Richard Jenkyns |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Download Classical Epic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the ancient world Homer was recognised as the fountainhead of culture. His poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were universally admired as examples of great literature which could never be surpassed. In this study, Richard Jenkyns re-examines the two Homeric epics and the work that is perhaps their closest rival, the Aeneid of Virgil. A wide range of topics is covered, including chapters on heroism and tragedy in the Iliad, morality in the Odyssey and Virgil's skilful reworking of elements from the two earlier epics. Essential reading for those who are unfamiliar with the works of Homer and Virgil, the author's lively and provocative approach will also appeal to more experienced scholars of classical literature.
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
Download Homer the Classic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1697 |
Genre | : Epic poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download Verdicts of the learned concerning Virgil and Homer's Heroic Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Karl Olav Sandnes |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2011-02-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004194428 |
Download The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study investigates the phenomenon of Christian centos, i.e. attempts at rewriting the Gospel stories in both the style and vocabulary of either Homer (Greek) or Virgil (Latin). Out of the classical epics an entirely new text emerged.