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Author | : A. M. Keith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2000-02-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521556217 |
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Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the constitution and negotiation of the heroism on display in epic has received scant attention in the critical literature. This study represents an attempt to restore female characters to visibility in Roman epic and to examine the discursive operations that effect their marginalisation within both the genre and the critical tradition it has given rise to. The five chapters can be read either as self-contained essays or as a cumulative exploration of the gender dynamics of the Roman epic tradition. The issues addressed are of interest not just to classicists but also to students of gender studies.
Author | : Carole E. Newlands |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0857726609 |
Download Ovid Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Newlands provides an extensive overview and analysis of Ovid s works."
Author | : Patricia A. Johnston |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2016-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144389821X |
Download Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume brings together a variety of approaches to the different ways in which the role of animals was understood in ancient Greco-Roman myth and religion, across a period of several centuries, from Preclassical Greece to Late Antique Rome. Animals in Greco-Roman antiquity were thought to be intermediaries between men and gods, and they played a pivotal role in sacrificial rituals and divination, the foundations of pagan religion. The studies in the first part of the volume examine the role of the animals in sacrifice and divination. The second part explores the similarities between animals, on the one hand, and men and gods, on the other. Indeed, in antiquity, the behaviour of several animals was perceived to mirror human behaviour, while the selection of the various animals as sacrificial victims to specific deities often was determined on account of some peculiar habit that echoed a special attribute of the particular deity. The last part of this volume is devoted to the study of animal metamorphosis, and to this end a number of myths that associate various animals with transformation are examined from a variety of perspectives.
Author | : Federica Bessone |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110534436 |
Download The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of this canon rather stimulated creative tension. In the changing socio-cultural context, daring innovations transform the genres of poetry and prose. This volume, which collects papers by influential scholars of early Imperial literature, sheds light on the productive dynamics of the ancient genre system and can also offer insightful perspectives to a non-classicist readership.
Author | : Susanna Morton Braund |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317240278 |
Download Understanding Latin Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Understanding Latin Literature is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second edition is heavily revised to reflect recent developments in scholarship, especially in the area of the later reception and reverberations of Latin literature. Chapters are dedicated to Latin writers such as Virgil and Livy and explore how literature related to Roman identity and society. Readers are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts and through understanding the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture. The versatile and accessible structure of Understanding Latin Literature makes it suitable for both individual and class use.
Author | : Monica R. Gale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107027144 |
Download Texts and Violence in the Roman World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.
Author | : Timothy A. Joseph |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0197582141 |
Download Thunder and Lament Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Lucan's epic poem Pharsalia tells the story of the cataclysmic "end of Rome" through the victory of Julius Caesar and Caesarism in the civil wars of 49-48 BCE. This book argues that Lucan's poetic agenda moves in lockstep with his narrative arc, as he fashions the Pharsalia to mark the momentous end of the epic genre. In order to accomplish the closure of the genre, Lucan engages pervasively and polemically with the very first works of Greek and Roman epic - inverting, undoing, and closing off many of the tropes and themes introduced in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and in the foundational Latin epic poems by Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and most of all Ennius. By looking at Lucan's effort to "surpass the poets of old" - a phrase Statius would use of his achievement - this study broadens our appreciation of Lucan's poetic ambitions and accomplishment. Statius also read Lucan as a poet who both thunders and laments, and this book makes the case that Lucan closes off epic's beginnings through not just gestures of thundering poetic violence but also a transformation and expansion of the traditional epic mode of lament. In his story of violent Roman self-destruction and the lamentation that accompanies it, Lucan at the same time uproots and marks the end of the epic song"--
Author | : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110719940 |
Download Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The question of ‘identity’ arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one’s own specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands, described as very ‘different’. Since all societies are structured by the division between the sexes in every field of public and private activity, the modern concept of ‘gender’ is a key comparator to be considered when investigating how the concepts of identity and ethnicity are articulated in the evaluation of the norms and values of other cultures. The object of this book is to analyze, at the beginning Western culture, various examples of the ways the Greeks and Romans deployed these three parameters in the definition of their identity, both cultural and gendered, by reference to their neighbours and foreign nations at different times in their history. This study also aims to enrich contemporary debates by showing that we have yet to learn from the ancients’ discussions of social and cultural issues that are still relevant today.
Author | : Neil W. Bernstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198838166 |
Download Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This book is an integral part of the epic's three-book movement that narrates one of the largest battles in Roman history. It opens with the dispute between the consuls Paulus and Varro over giving battle, in the face of hostile omens and Hannibal's record of successful combat. On the eve of the battle, the Roman soldier Solymus accidentally kills his father Satricus, thereby presenting an omen of disaster for the Roman army. After Hannibal and Varro encourage their troops, the initial phase of the battle commences. The gods descend to the battlefield, and Mars and Minerva fight the sole full-scale theomachy in Latin epic. Aeolus summons the Vulturnus wind at Juno's request to devastate the Roman ranks. After the gods have departed, Hannibal's elephant troops advance and scatter the Roman forces. The book ends by recapitulating the opening episode: Varro admits his mistake in giving battle and flees the battlefield. This volume is the first full-scale commentary in English devoted exclusively to Punica 9. It features the Latin text with a critical apparatus and a parallel English translation. Detailed commentary notes provide information on literary style, use of language, poetic intertexts, and scholarly interpretation. The Introduction offers further context and background, including sections on Silius Italicus and his era, the historiographic and rhetorical traditions that he adopted, the inter- and intra-textuality of the Cannae episode, and the book's use of diction and metre.
Author | : Anne Rogerson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108232175 |
Download Virgil's Ascanius Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil's Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil's heroic epic.