Author: Ward Briggs
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004327754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Preliminary Material /Ward W. Briggs -- Introduction /Ward W. Briggs -- Similes in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid /Ward W. Briggs -- Narrative in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid /Ward W. Briggs -- Conclusions /Ward W. Briggs -- Bibliography /Ward W. Briggs -- Index Locorum /Ward W. Briggs.
Narrative and simile from the Georgics in the Aeneid
Author: Ward Briggs
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004327754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Preliminary Material /Ward W. Briggs -- Introduction /Ward W. Briggs -- Similes in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid /Ward W. Briggs -- Narrative in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid /Ward W. Briggs -- Conclusions /Ward W. Briggs -- Bibliography /Ward W. Briggs -- Index Locorum /Ward W. Briggs.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004327754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Preliminary Material /Ward W. Briggs -- Introduction /Ward W. Briggs -- Similes in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid /Ward W. Briggs -- Narrative in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid /Ward W. Briggs -- Conclusions /Ward W. Briggs -- Bibliography /Ward W. Briggs -- Index Locorum /Ward W. Briggs.
Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004383344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004383344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography, Religion
Author: Denis Feeney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108606490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the problems of literary responses to religion and ritual, with an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on comparative anthropology and religion. The transition from Republic to Empire and the emergence of the Augustan principate form the background to the majority of the papers, and the question of how literary texts are to be read in historical context is addressed throughout. All quotations from ancient and modern languages have now been translated and Stephen Hinds has contributed a foreword.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108606490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the problems of literary responses to religion and ritual, with an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on comparative anthropology and religion. The transition from Republic to Empire and the emergence of the Augustan principate form the background to the majority of the papers, and the question of how literary texts are to be read in historical context is addressed throughout. All quotations from ancient and modern languages have now been translated and Stephen Hinds has contributed a foreword.
Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in Ovid and Virgil
Author: Alden Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A consideration of the allusive poetry of Ovid based on the philosophy of Martin Buber
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A consideration of the allusive poetry of Ovid based on the philosophy of Martin Buber
God and the Land
Author: Stephanie Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199723990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199723990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic
Author: Deborah Beck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Similes create a distinctive world of embodied experiences that partner with the mythological story to shape epic narrative.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Similes create a distinctive world of embodied experiences that partner with the mythological story to shape epic narrative.
Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry
Author: Brooks Otis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806127828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806127828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.
The Classical Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Classical Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description