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| Author | : Peter Karavites |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9789004095670 |
Download Promise-Giving and Treaty Making Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics, according to which they reflect only the institutions and ideas of their own time, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Using a comparative analysis of evidence from the Near East and the Homeric corpus, Peter Karavites comes to the bold conclusion that the epics actually contain much that harks back to the Mycenaean Age, and that the two eras may not be completely discontinuous after all. Most contemporary scholars maintain that the mighty Mycenaean period was almost completely separated from the Dark Ages and that virtually no evidence of the former remains, with the exception of the archeological finds and the meager testimony of the Linear B tablets. However, the Near Eastern evidence about treaties and other forms of promising suggests that the Iliad and Odyssey may indeed provide historical pictures of the Mycenaean times featured in their narratives.
| Author | : Alan H. Sommerstein |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2014-09-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110384876 |
Download Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.
| Author | : Judith Fletcher |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2011-11-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113950035X |
Download Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of speech act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority.
| Author | : Stewart Moore |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2015-07-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004303081 |
Download Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt, Stewart Moore investigates the triangular ethnic relations of Jews, Egyptians and Greeks to describe their mutual effects, both positive and negative, on identity formation.
| Author | : Peter Karavites |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2018-07-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004329153 |
Download Promise-Giving and Treaty-Making Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics that they reflect only the institutions and ideas of the Dark Ages, during which they were composed, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Comparing evidence from the Near East with the Homeric corpus, Peter Karavites argues that the epics actually contain much that harks back to the Mycenaean Age, and that the two eras may not be completely discontinuous after all. Most contemporary scholars maintain that the mighty Mycenaean period was almost completely separated from the Dark Ages and that virtually no evidence of the former remains, with the exception of the archeological finds and the meager testimony of the Linear B tablets. However, the Near Eastern evidence about treaties and other forms of promising suggests that the Iliad and Odyssey may indeed provide historical pictures of the Mycenaean times featured in their narratives.
| Author | : Gilbert Murray |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Rise of the Greek Epic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : N K Rauh |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 403 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004663452 |
Download The Sacred Bonds of Commerce Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study analyzes the religious mentality, commercial practices, and social composition of Roman trade society at the celebrated Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republican emporium of Delos, 166-87 B.C. The remains of this site date largely to the late second and early first centuries B.C., when Delos was the nerve center of the trans-Mediterranean luxury and slave trade of Roman Italy. Repeated military assaults be-tween 87 and 69 B.C. de-stroyed the community and its trade importance declined. But as an archaeological site it offers the earliest and most detailed remains of a Roman trade community to survive anywhere in the Mediterranean world, including the city of Rome itself. This study marks the first re-assessment and interpretation of these remains from the vantage point of Roman trade in more than seventy years. Among the subjects discussed are the religious character of the remains of Delian marketplaces and their likely commercial function; the role of oaths and, more particularly, of the gods, Mercury and Hercules, in Roman commerce; the tendency of Roman traders to organize themselves according to religious fraternities and the manner in which this enhanced trade activities such as finance; the social status of these traders in wider Roman society as reflected by their house remains; and, finally the identity of the mysterious Agora of the Italians.
| Author | : Carlo Gébler |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2021-10-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1623710863 |
Download Aesop's Fables Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“A welcome feast of fables for our times … Carlo Gébler’s book is a wonderful, gloomy and welcome addition to the Aesopic corpus … The stories have been re-written in a spiky, contemporary style … The content of these pessimistic stories is thought-provoking but what makes the collection absolutely delightful is the vigor and originality of Carlo Gébler’s writing. The illustrations by Gavin Weston are likewise magnificent.” —The Irish Times “This repackaging of [Aesop's] fables by Carlo Gebler and illsutrator Gavin Weston is a reminder that adult minds were originally the target of this litany of pocket-sized parables ... There is very much a feeling here of the ancient sound-tracking the alarmingly present.” —Sunday Independent (Dublin) “Scary new versions of ancient morality tales, Aesop's Fables, with stings in all their tails [...] are full of adult wisdom, human misfortune and bitter experiences, which, because they happen to other people, are hilarious.” —Belfast Telegraph THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF FABLES EVER WRITTEN, UPDATED FOR OUR TURBULENT TIMES A witty illustrated version of the world's greatest collection of fables, allegedly written by a slave in the 5th century BC. A book for our times: as Gebler notes, Aesop has two subjects—the exercise of power and the experience of the powerless who endure life and all that it inflicts on them. This retelling of the Fables makes them relevant and richly enjoyable. Large and fierce animals kill and butcher weaker creatures; gods play games with the hopes and fears of lesser species, including men and women; and occasionally the weak turn the tables on the strong, exposing their pretensions. This is a stunning new version of a book that was often bowdlerized and used to teach moral lessons to children. Gebler’s Aesop is darker and more realistic, and compulsively readable.
| Author | : Adam B Seligman |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2024-08-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3111324575 |
Download Oaths and Vows Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Oaths, vows, promises, curses - all share family resemblances. They are performatives, carrying illocutionary force. Oaths have rightly been termed, "conditional self-curses", promises have been argued to be but a more developed form of vows, and oaths and vows are often used interchangeably. This book focuses on private vows and oaths including those publically proclaimed. Through analysis of legal, liturgical, mythical and literary works, it seeks to uncover a phenomenology of oaths and vows. Viewing oaths and vows as the human creative force par excellence, it surveys their role in circumscribing and directing both erotic desire and aggression; and so - in their performative function - as standing at the foundation of society and sociability. As acts of trust which establish new obligations understandings of the role of oaths and vows are compared in the Jewish and Christian contexts, in terms of the importance of intentionality in vow making and oath taking, as well as the nature of the obligations ensuing from such locutionary acts. Analysis of the comic and tragic consequences of the violation of marriage oaths as presented in European literature from the 12th to 19th centuries reveals their perception as "habituating" Eros.
| Author | : Bodil Due |
| Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
| Total Pages | : 82 |
| Release | : 1980-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9788788073164 |
Download Antiphon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
CONTENTS: Preface; Index of Greek Words; List of Works Referred to; The Problem; Notes to Chapter One; Antiphon's First Speech; Notes to Chapter Two; Antiphon's Fifth Speech; Notes to Chapter Three; Antiphon's Sixth Speech; Notes to Chapter Four; Conclusion; Notes to Chapter Five.
