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| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2008-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139827979 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.
| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
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Download The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.
| Author | : Marianne McDonald |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2007-05-31 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1139827251 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
| Author | : A. A. Long |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 1999-06-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521446679 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
| Author | : Harriet I. Flower |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2014-06-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107032245 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
| Author | : Richard Bett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2010-01-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139828215 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.
| Author | : Catherine Bates |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-04-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139828274 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Epic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages.
| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2011-04-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1139500589 |
Download Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.
| Author | : Barbette Stanley Spaeth |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2013-11-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521113962 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an introduction to the major religions of the ancient Mediterranean and explores current research regarding the similarities and differences among them.
| Author | : Loren J. Samons II |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 25 |
| Release | : 2007-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139826697 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible.
