Sunt Lacrimae Rerum

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Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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"In homage to and in mourning for the street of booksellers, this book takes its title from Aeneas's words of sorrow uttered before a Carthaginian mural depicting the Trojan War. Tragedy must be brought home to us, but how can we relay the depths of loss--a very idea predicated on absence? This reliquary is part lachrymatory: it contains a book whose text of tears is designed to tear away at itself each time the book is displayed. Pleated into an accordion, it plays the elegy for its own effacement as, gradually, the cut-out letters catch on one another, pulling themselves up and off the page until they may fall away entirely. Not only is the book's texture designed to transform, its text does as well: page by page, one letter of the phrase changes at each turn." --artist's statement.

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum PDF Author:
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Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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"In homage to and in mourning for the street of booksellers, this book takes its title from Aeneas's words of sorrow uttered before a Carthaginian mural depicting the Trojan War. Tragedy must be brought home to us, but how can we relay the depths of loss--a very idea predicated on absence? This reliquary is part lachrymatory: it contains a book whose text of tears is designed to tear away at itself each time the book is displayed. Pleated into an accordion, it plays the elegy for its own effacement as, gradually, the cut-out letters catch on one another, pulling themselves up and off the page until they may fall away entirely. Not only is the book's texture designed to transform, its text does as well: page by page, one letter of the phrase changes at each turn." --artist's statement.

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum PDF Author: Melvin D. Thomas
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
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Category : Tragic, The
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Sunt Lacrimae Rerum

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum PDF Author: Amaranth Claire Borsuk
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Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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"Created in response to the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad's street of booksellers, 'Sunt Lacrimae Rerum' mourns the loss of both books and bodies. It takes its title from Aeneas's words of sorrow uttered before a Carthaginian mural depicting the Trojan War. Tragedy must be brought home to us, but how can we relay the depths of loss -- a very idea predicated on absence? This reliquary is part lachrymatory: it contains a book whose text of tears is designed to tear away at itself each time the book is displayed. Pleated into an accordion, it plays the elegy for its own effacement as, gradually, the cut-out letters catch on one another, pulling themselves up and off the page until they may fall away entirely. Not only is the book's texture designed to transform, but its text does as well: page by page, one letter of the phrase changes at each turn. Although right now, 'these are the tears of things', over time we might enter a space 'where all the tears embraced'." -- Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website.

Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in Ovid and Virgil

Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in Ovid and Virgil PDF Author: Alden Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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A consideration of the allusive poetry of Ovid based on the philosophy of Martin Buber

Sunt lacrimae rerum

Sunt lacrimae rerum PDF Author: Attilio De_Marchi
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Languages : it
Pages : 0

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Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid

Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid PDF Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438410301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In this book, M. Owen Lee provides a comprehensive narrative summary of Virgil's Aeneid and a personal account of his experience with the epic poem. Noting that Virgil is the writer most Latinists read early, live with, and often come to love late, Lee expresses a clear devotion to the poet's work and relates how it has touched him throughout his life. While most criticism of the Aeneid makes a distinction between what critics say and what an individual may respond to, Lee takes a unique approach by analyzing the epic story from his own point of view. He not only explores the extensive Virgilian tradition, but also looks at the work of other poets, as well as philosophers, artists, composers, and filmmakers in order to better understand the Aeneid. Lee concludes that Virgil's poem, with its unavailing fathers and dutiful sons, its ineffably sad view of a failed humanity and a flawed universe, still touches hearts and, in ways Virgil could not have foreseen, still affects human lives.

Virgil's Aeneid

Virgil's Aeneid PDF Author: Wendell V. Clausen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110963701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

Virgil, Aeneid X

Virgil, Aeneid X PDF Author: Virgil
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 112

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Symphosius The Aenigmata

Symphosius The Aenigmata PDF Author: Caelius Firmianus Symphosius
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472511026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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A critical edition of the only extant collection of Latin riddles containing the primary texts and in-depth analysis.

Vergil's Aeneid

Vergil's Aeneid PDF Author: Virgil
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253200457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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"This translation with its admirable projection of the various moods throughout the poem can be recommended to both classicist and non-classicist." --The Classical World "Of all the editions of the Aeneid in English, this] volume should be of special interest to the teacher--as well as to the student." --The Classical Outlook