Author: Joyce Moss
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Classical Literature and Its Times
Author: Joyce Moss
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
World Literature & Its Times V8 Classical Literature
Author: Joyce Moss
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9781414435800
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9781414435800
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
African Literature and Its Times
Author: Joyce Moss
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Africa. Organized by title, it discusses 50 works through detailed essays.
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Africa. Organized by title, it discusses 50 works through detailed essays.
Classical Literature
Author: Richard Rutherford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470775262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. Highlights what is important historically and of continuing interest and value in classical literature. An introduction by the editor presents essential information in a concise, accessible way. Each chapter focuses on a particular genre or area of literature. This structure allows readers to see continuities between different periods and to move easily between the Greek and Roman worlds. Includes extensive quotations in English. A timeline and an index of authors help to make the material as accessible as possible.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470775262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. Highlights what is important historically and of continuing interest and value in classical literature. An introduction by the editor presents essential information in a concise, accessible way. Each chapter focuses on a particular genre or area of literature. This structure allows readers to see continuities between different periods and to move easily between the Greek and Roman worlds. Includes extensive quotations in English. A timeline and an index of authors help to make the material as accessible as possible.
Classical Literature
Author: Richard Jenkyns
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome's empire. Jenkyns begins with Homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Later, in Athens's classical age, Jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles's choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, in "inventing history," brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality. We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Even St. Paul and other early Christian writers are artfully grounded here in their classical literary context. A dynamic and comprehensive introduction to Greek and Roman literature, Jenkyns's Classical Literature is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the classics -- and the extraordinary origins of Western culture. "There is scarcely anything on which he does not offer an original aperç sometimes illuminating, sometimes simply provocative, but always worth reading... Jenkyns's view of ancient literature is Olympian." -- G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome's empire. Jenkyns begins with Homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Later, in Athens's classical age, Jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles's choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, in "inventing history," brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality. We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Even St. Paul and other early Christian writers are artfully grounded here in their classical literary context. A dynamic and comprehensive introduction to Greek and Roman literature, Jenkyns's Classical Literature is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the classics -- and the extraordinary origins of Western culture. "There is scarcely anything on which he does not offer an original aperç sometimes illuminating, sometimes simply provocative, but always worth reading... Jenkyns's view of ancient literature is Olympian." -- G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
Author: Amy Kelly
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674242548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An account of Queen Eleanor which describes her dramatic life as a queen, her marriages, and her contributions to that period.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674242548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An account of Queen Eleanor which describes her dramatic life as a queen, her marriages, and her contributions to that period.
Jason and Medea
Author: Apollonius (Rhodius.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Manual of Classical Literature
Author: Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
History of Classical Literature
Author: Robert William Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory
Author: P. E. Easterling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521359832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world would not be considered 'Literary', the ancients made a less sharp distinction between intellectual and artistic production, and the authors included in this volume are some of Europe's most powerful stylists: Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521359832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world would not be considered 'Literary', the ancients made a less sharp distinction between intellectual and artistic production, and the authors included in this volume are some of Europe's most powerful stylists: Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes.