Author: Robin Greene
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004469265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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An introductory guide to modern scholarship on post-Classical Greek elegy and lyric.

Author: William Allan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107122996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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A selection of the work of ten poets with detailed introduction and linguistic, literary and cultural commentary suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, but also of interest to scholars. Includes some major pieces, such as the recently discovered Plataea elegy of Simonides and Telephus elegy of Archilochus.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004414525
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 589

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In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of international scholars consider the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) up to the 12th century CE, from a variety of intersecting perspectives: reperformance, textualization, the direct and indirect tradition, anthologies, poets’ Lives, and the disquisitions of philosophers and scholars. Particular attention is given to the poets Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Pindar, and Timotheus. Consideration is given to their reception in authors such as Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Aelius Aristides, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Statius, as well as their discussion by Peripatetic scholars, the Hellenistic scholia to Pindar, Horace’s commentator Porphyrio, and Eustathius on Pindar.

Author: Alaya Palamidis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111326519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

Author: John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Author: Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Author: John Pentland Mahaffy
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ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: Felix Budelmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521849446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461

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Introduction to this wide-ranging body of poetry, which includes work by such famous poets as Sappho and Pindar.

Author: Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110455587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 593

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Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their ‘context’, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.

Author: Margaret Foster
Publisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements
ISBN: 9789004411425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetryforegrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho's songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.