Author: David Ricks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317791789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Book Description
Dialogos" encompasses Greek language and literature, Greek history and archaeology, Greek culture and thought, present and past: a territory of distinctive richness and unsurpassed influence. It seeks to foster critical awareness and informed debate about the ideas, events and achievements that make up this territory, by redefining their qualities, by exploring their interconnections and by reinterpreting their significance within Western culture and beyond.
Author: David Ricks
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714651835
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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An annual publication that includes writings by scholars whose interests lie in Greek language, literature, history, archaeology, culture and philosophy, from both the past and the present.
Author: Timothy Power
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021389
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book, the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode, traverses a range of poetic and prose texts, iconography, and inscriptions. Power offers a nuanced account of aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the role of the songmakers in the popular imagination.
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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This book is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. The aim of this book, which centers on ancient concepts of Homer as the author of a body of poetry that we know as the Iliad and the Odyssey, is to show how Homer's work became a classic in the days of the Athenian empire and later.
Author: Stamatia Dova
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739144979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings of a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Stamatia Dova offers innovative hermeneutic approaches to heroic character and a comprehensive overview of the theme of descent to the underworld in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Vols. 1-8, 1880-87, plates published separately and numbered I-LXXXIII.
Author: Eric N. Lindquist
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400861888
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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A case study in American philanthropy, this book describes the beginnings of the Center for Hellenic Studies, a research institute established in 1961 in Washington, D.C. as an outpost of Harvard University. Each year eight post-doctoral fellows come from all over the world to live at the center and do research in ancient Greek literature, philosophy, or history. The idea behind this arrangement began with the preeminent philanthropist Paul Mellon's interest in finding a project to advance the humanities. Eric Lindquist traces the ten-year evolution of the center from Mellon's first general notion. In the process he portrays some of the hopes and fears for the humanities, especially the classics, in America during the period following World War II and the climate of opinion that led to the establishment of the center. The study concludes with a short account of the subsequent development of the center. This is the first published account of the origins of the center. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Casey Dué
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand years later, technology offers a new opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature. The high-resolution images of the manuscript that accompany these essays were acquired by a multinational team of scholars and conservators in May 2007.
Author: Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110271567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together internationally distinguished scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. These specialists study how tragic and comic plays composed in late fifth century BCE mirror the acute political and social crisis unfolding in Athens in the wake of the military catastrophe in 413 BCE and the oligarchic revolution in 411 BCE. With events of such magnitude the late fifth century held the potential for vast and fast cultural and intellectual change. In times of severe emergency humans gain a more conscious understanding of their historically shaped presence; this realization often has a welcome effect of offering new perspectives to tackle future challenges. Over twenty academic experts believe that the Attic theatre showed increased responsiveness to the pressing social and political issues of the day to the benefit of the polis. By regularly promoting examples of public-spirited and capable figures of authority, Greek drama provided the people of Athens with a civic understanding of their own good.
Author: Constantine R. Campbell
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 0310524539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Advances in the Study of Greek offers an introduction to issues of interest in the current world of Greek scholarship. Those within Greek scholarship will welcome this book as a tool that puts students, pastors, professors, and commentators firmly in touch with what is going on in Greek studies. Those outside Greek scholarship will warmly receive Advances in the Study of Greek as a resource to get themselves up to speed in Greek studies. Free of technical linguistic jargon, the scholarship contained within is highly accessible to outsiders. Advances in the Study of Greek provides an accessible introduction for students, pastors, professors, and commentators to understand the current issues of interest in this period of paradigm shift.
