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Author | : Jean Alvares |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100045651X |
Download Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the areas in which novels such as Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’s Aithiopika are ideal beyond the ideal love relationship and considers how concepts of the ideal connect to archetypal and literary patterns as well as reflecting contemporary ideological and cultural elements. Readers will gain a better understanding of how necessary is an understanding of these ideal elements to a full understanding of the novels’ possible readings and their reader’s attitudes. This book sets forth critical methods, subsequently followed, which allows for this exploration of ideal themes. Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel will be an invaluable resource for scholars of these novels, as well as ancient narratives and classical literature more generally. Scholars of cultural and utopian studies will also find the book useful, as well as some undergraduate students in all these areas.
Author | : Alexander Kirichenko |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-08-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0192692003 |
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Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the cultural production of space, and Greek geography a crucial factor in the production of literary meaning. The book focuses on the idealizing images that Greek literature created of three spatial patterns of power distribution: a decentralized network of aristocratically governed communities (Archaic Greece); a democratic city controlling an empire (Classical Athens); and a microcosm of Greek culture located on foreign soil, ruled by quasi-divine royals, and populated by immigrants (Ptolemaic Alexandria). Kirichenko draws connections between the formation of these idealizing images and the emergence of such literary modes of meaning making as the authoritative communication of the truth, the dialogic encouragement to search for the truth on one's own, and the abandonment of transcendental goals for the sake of cultural memory and/or aesthetic pleasure. Readings of such canonical Greek authors as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, Thucydides, Plato, Callimachus, and Theocritus show that the pragmatics of Greek literature (the sum total of the ideological, cognitive, and emotional effects that it seeks to produce) is, in essence, always a pragmatics of space: there is a strong correlation between the historically conditioned patterns of political geography and the changing mechanisms whereby Greek literature enabled its recipients to make sense of their world.
Author | : B. P. Reardon |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 982 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520305590 |
Download Collected Ancient Greek Novels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
Author | : Kenneth John Atchity |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195123034 |
Download The Classical Greek Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The wonders of the Greek world are presented in a modern, accessible manner, perfect for those looking to refresh their acquaintance with the classics and for those who have yet to explore the exciting intellectual energy of ancient Greece. Atchity focuses not only on the big names but also on the less-familiar voices--the women, doctors, storytellers, herbalists, and romance writers of the time. 43 photos.
Author | : Thomas Van Nortwick |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2008-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031305519X |
Download Imagining Men Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring models for masculinity as they appear in major works of Greek literature, this book combines literary, historical, and psychological insights to examine how the ancient Greeks understood the meaning of a man's life. The thoughts and actions of Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and other enduring characters from Greek literature reflect the imperatives that the ancient Greeks saw as governing a man's life as he moved from childhood to adult maturity to old age. Because the Greeks believed that men (as opposed to women) were by nature the proper agents of human civilization within the larger order of the universe, examining how the Greeks thought that a man ought to live his life prompts exploration of the place of human life in a world governed by transcendent forces, nature, fate, and the gods. While focusing on the experience of men in ancient Greece, the discussion also offers an analysis of the society in which they lived, addressing questions still vital in our own time, such as how the members of a society should govern themselves, distribute resources, form relationships with others, weigh the needs of the individual against the larger good of the community, and establish right relations with divine forces beyond their knowledge or control. Suggestions for further reading offer the reader the chance to explore the ideas in the book.
Author | : Edith Hall |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393244121 |
Download Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Mythology, Classical |
ISBN | : |
Download A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Meriel Jones |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199570086 |
Download Playing the Man Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examining and contextualising key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity in the five 'ideal' Greek novels, Jones argues that many of the novels' men depend very much on the maintenance of their image before others, and that they are conscious of 'playing the man'.
Author | : M. L. West |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019954039X |
Download Greek Lyric Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.
Author | : Daniel Albert Wyttenbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
ISBN | : |
Download Observations on the Importance of Greek Literature and the Best Method of Studying the Classics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle