Author: Lucillius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This is not the friend of Seneca or the grammarian of Tarrha, says Nystrom (humanities and religious studies, California State U.-Sacramento), but a poet considered minor whose work has therefore not been translated into English before. He finds him very clever despite his obscurity, and thinks readers will be pleased with the well-turned lines, comical caricatures, and interesting insights into the complexities of life in first-century Rome. His translations are intended to approximate the style and spirit of the original Greek, which appears on facing pages. For readers unfamiliar with classical culture, he includes explanatory notes on features of the poems they may find difficult. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
An English Translation of the Poetry of Lucillius, a First-century Greek Epigrammatist
Author: Lucillius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This is not the friend of Seneca or the grammarian of Tarrha, says Nystrom (humanities and religious studies, California State U.-Sacramento), but a poet considered minor whose work has therefore not been translated into English before. He finds him very clever despite his obscurity, and thinks readers will be pleased with the well-turned lines, comical caricatures, and interesting insights into the complexities of life in first-century Rome. His translations are intended to approximate the style and spirit of the original Greek, which appears on facing pages. For readers unfamiliar with classical culture, he includes explanatory notes on features of the poems they may find difficult. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This is not the friend of Seneca or the grammarian of Tarrha, says Nystrom (humanities and religious studies, California State U.-Sacramento), but a poet considered minor whose work has therefore not been translated into English before. He finds him very clever despite his obscurity, and thinks readers will be pleased with the well-turned lines, comical caricatures, and interesting insights into the complexities of life in first-century Rome. His translations are intended to approximate the style and spirit of the original Greek, which appears on facing pages. For readers unfamiliar with classical culture, he includes explanatory notes on features of the poems they may find difficult. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
An English Translation of the Poetry of Lucillius, a First-century Greek Epigrammatist
Author: Lucillius
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889466845
Category : Epigrams, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889466845
Category : Epigrams, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Ancient Greek Epigrams
Author: Gordon L. Fain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This volume presents a selection of Greek epigrams in verse translation, including many from the recently discovered Milan papyrus. The poets represented are Anyte, Leonidas of Tarentum, Asclepiades, Posidippus, Callimachus, Theocritus, Meleager, Philodemos and Lucillius.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This volume presents a selection of Greek epigrams in verse translation, including many from the recently discovered Milan papyrus. The poets represented are Anyte, Leonidas of Tarentum, Asclepiades, Posidippus, Callimachus, Theocritus, Meleager, Philodemos and Lucillius.
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
Author: Maria Kanellou
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198836821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, epigram is also the most resilient. This volume provides a selection of in-depth treatments of key aspects of Greek literary epigram from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine period, rather than focusing on individual authors or anthologies, in order to explore the evolution of the genre over time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198836821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, epigram is also the most resilient. This volume provides a selection of in-depth treatments of key aspects of Greek literary epigram from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine period, rather than focusing on individual authors or anthologies, in order to explore the evolution of the genre over time.
Selected Epigrams
Author: Martial
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299301745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. The selections cover nearly a third of Martial's 1,500 or so epigrams, augmented by a historical introduction and informative notes.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299301745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. The selections cover nearly a third of Martial's 1,500 or so epigrams, augmented by a historical introduction and informative notes.
Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram
Author: Evina Sistakou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110498790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the related bibliography. This edition aspires to fill the gap by offering an in-depth study of dialect, diction, and style in Greek literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one contributions authored by international scholars. The authors explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of dialectical variation, the interchange between poetic and colloquial vocabulary, the employment of hapax legomena, the formalistic uses of the epigrammatic discourse (meter, syntactical patterns, arrangement of words, riddles), the various categories of style in sepulchral, philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary epigrams, and the idiosyncratic diction of inscriptions. This is a book intended for classicists who want to review the connection between the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation, as well as for scholars keen to understand how rhetoric and linguistics can be used as a heuristic tool for the study of literature.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110498790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the related bibliography. This edition aspires to fill the gap by offering an in-depth study of dialect, diction, and style in Greek literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one contributions authored by international scholars. The authors explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of dialectical variation, the interchange between poetic and colloquial vocabulary, the employment of hapax legomena, the formalistic uses of the epigrammatic discourse (meter, syntactical patterns, arrangement of words, riddles), the various categories of style in sepulchral, philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary epigrams, and the idiosyncratic diction of inscriptions. This is a book intended for classicists who want to review the connection between the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation, as well as for scholars keen to understand how rhetoric and linguistics can be used as a heuristic tool for the study of literature.
An Interpretation of the Poetry of Propertius (50-15 B.C.)
Author: Brian Arkins
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book aims at providing a brief but comprehensive introduction to the poetry of Propertius, one of the major writers of the Augustan era. A study of backgrounds to Propertius notes the qualities Pound found in him - humour, devotion to his craft, a very special use of language - as well as stressing the importance of Callimachus and the status of Roman women. Callimachus provided Propertius with a congenial aesthetic of the short poem, erudition, craftsmanship and innovation; the latter is found in the Cynthia poems. In Propertius, the primacy of Cynthia is assured: Cynthis prima are his first two words. What makes it possible to write endlessly about Cynthia is the fact that her self is forever changing, being virago, wronged woman, mistress, wife, faithful Penelope, deserted Ariadne; while Propertius is her slave. This concern with love ensured that for long Propertius avoided political topics, but in his last book (4) he writes of politics, and, in particular, of the battle of Actium in language that is radically defamiliarising.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book aims at providing a brief but comprehensive introduction to the poetry of Propertius, one of the major writers of the Augustan era. A study of backgrounds to Propertius notes the qualities Pound found in him - humour, devotion to his craft, a very special use of language - as well as stressing the importance of Callimachus and the status of Roman women. Callimachus provided Propertius with a congenial aesthetic of the short poem, erudition, craftsmanship and innovation; the latter is found in the Cynthia poems. In Propertius, the primacy of Cynthia is assured: Cynthis prima are his first two words. What makes it possible to write endlessly about Cynthia is the fact that her self is forever changing, being virago, wronged woman, mistress, wife, faithful Penelope, deserted Ariadne; while Propertius is her slave. This concern with love ensured that for long Propertius avoided political topics, but in his last book (4) he writes of politics, and, in particular, of the battle of Actium in language that is radically defamiliarising.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Language and literature
Author: Xerox University Microfilms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description