Author: Margaret Alexiou
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742507579
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive and penetrating synthesis.
The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition
Author: Margaret Alexiou
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742507579
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive and penetrating synthesis.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742507579
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive and penetrating synthesis.
Autobiographic Elements in Latin Inscriptions
Author: Henry H. Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A History of Autobiography in Antiquity
Author: Georg Misch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136240225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This is Volume IV of 9 historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part one of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. This volume covers the conception and the origin of autobiography, looking at ancient civilisations of the Middle East, classical Greece and Greco-Roman periods.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136240225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This is Volume IV of 9 historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part one of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. This volume covers the conception and the origin of autobiography, looking at ancient civilisations of the Middle East, classical Greece and Greco-Roman periods.
Latin Philology
Author: Clarence Linton Meader
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Matters of Inscription
Author: Christina A. León
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479816787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad argues that Latinx inscriptions require us to read at the edge of materiality and semiosis, charting a nimble method for "reading" various forms of Latinx marks and even the word Latinx across art, performance, poetry, plays, and fiction"--
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479816787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad argues that Latinx inscriptions require us to read at the edge of materiality and semiosis, charting a nimble method for "reading" various forms of Latinx marks and even the word Latinx across art, performance, poetry, plays, and fiction"--
The Ancient Lives of Virgil
Author: Philip Hardie
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
ISBN: 1910589667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted, and quietly adopted as canonical, most notably the dating of Virgil's death. Some vignettes in the Lives have been cherished for their image of an emotive poet, as when Virgil, by evoking in verse the premature death of Augustus' nephew Marcellus, caused the young man's bereaved mother to faint. Less romantic detail from the Lives, as of Virgil's privileged material circumstances at the heart of the Augustan regime, has been less regarded. The present volume, from a distinguished international team, aims to revalue the Ancient Lives of Virgil from a variety of angles and in a variety of scholarly genres. The allegory within the Lives is here studied for its own sake, and shown to be part of a developed Graeco-Roman school of interpretation. The literary character of the verse Life attributed to Phocas is respectfully analysed. Certain political references within the best-known prose Life, the `Suetonian-Donatan', are shown to be apparently independent of allegory, and to be worth prospecting for new information on the poet's personal history. And ideas of Virgil received and developed with brio in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are here traced back to the Ancient Lives of the poet composed in Antiquity.
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
ISBN: 1910589667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted, and quietly adopted as canonical, most notably the dating of Virgil's death. Some vignettes in the Lives have been cherished for their image of an emotive poet, as when Virgil, by evoking in verse the premature death of Augustus' nephew Marcellus, caused the young man's bereaved mother to faint. Less romantic detail from the Lives, as of Virgil's privileged material circumstances at the heart of the Augustan regime, has been less regarded. The present volume, from a distinguished international team, aims to revalue the Ancient Lives of Virgil from a variety of angles and in a variety of scholarly genres. The allegory within the Lives is here studied for its own sake, and shown to be part of a developed Graeco-Roman school of interpretation. The literary character of the verse Life attributed to Phocas is respectfully analysed. Certain political references within the best-known prose Life, the `Suetonian-Donatan', are shown to be apparently independent of allegory, and to be worth prospecting for new information on the poet's personal history. And ideas of Virgil received and developed with brio in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are here traced back to the Ancient Lives of the poet composed in Antiquity.
Classification
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity
Author: Gabriele Marasco
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004214658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Ancient autobiography has been the object of several studies and meetings. However, these have focused chiefly on the philosophical and literary aspects. This book aims to examine the development of political autobiography and memoirs in the Greek and Roman world, stressing, instead, the relation of a single work with the traditions of the genre and also the influence of the respective aims of the authors on the composition of autobiographies. At times these works were written as a means of propaganda in a political struggle, or to defend a past action, and often to furnish material to historians. Nonetheless, they still preserve the personal viewpoint and voice of the protagonists in all their vividness, even if distorted by the aim of defending their record. Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity will be a highly valuable and useful reference tool for both scholars and students of Greek and Roman history and literature.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004214658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Ancient autobiography has been the object of several studies and meetings. However, these have focused chiefly on the philosophical and literary aspects. This book aims to examine the development of political autobiography and memoirs in the Greek and Roman world, stressing, instead, the relation of a single work with the traditions of the genre and also the influence of the respective aims of the authors on the composition of autobiographies. At times these works were written as a means of propaganda in a political struggle, or to defend a past action, and often to furnish material to historians. Nonetheless, they still preserve the personal viewpoint and voice of the protagonists in all their vividness, even if distorted by the aim of defending their record. Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity will be a highly valuable and useful reference tool for both scholars and students of Greek and Roman history and literature.
President's Report
Author: University of Michigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Classical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description