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Book Euripides  Phaethon

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  • Author : Euripides
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-20
  • ISBN : 9780521604246
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Euripides Phaethon written by Euripides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the manuscript evidence of the surviving text of the Phaethon of Euripides and offers many decipherments.

Book Phaethon

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  • Author : Euripides,
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2008-11-12
  • ISBN : 1849436541
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Phaethon written by Euripides, and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios, who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt. Euripides explains how this happened: Helios had seduced Phaeton's mother - already betrothed to another - and as the price of her seduction had promised to grant her a favour. As an adult Phaethon claims the promise and asks to drive his father's chariot, with disastrous consequences... Only a quarter of Euripides' original version of Phaethon has survived. Alistair Elliot has translated these surviving 327 lines and reconstructed the rest, staying as faithful as possible to Euripides' time and way of thinking. The result is something very like finding a lost Euripides play, unperformed since the fifth century BC and amounting to a new masterpiece.

Book Euripides  Use of Psychological Terminology

Download or read book Euripides Use of Psychological Terminology written by Shirley Darcus Sullivan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on her previous works, Shirley Darcus Sullivan takes an in-depth look at Euripides' use of psychological terms - phr?n, nous, prapides, thumos, kardia, kear, and psych? - and compares his usage to that of both earlier and contemporary poets, most notably Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Book Arktouros

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  • Author : Glen W. Bowersock
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2011-08-30
  • ISBN : 3110837625
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Arktouros written by Glen W. Bowersock and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Love Peacock  Poetry  Miscellanies  Four ages of poetry  Hor   dramatic    no  1 3   Shelley  Shelley letters

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Poetry Miscellanies Four ages of poetry Hor dramatic no 1 3 Shelley Shelley letters written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Phaethon

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Kronos Press
  • Release : 2017-07-01
  • ISBN : 0917994507
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Phaethon written by and published by Kronos Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phaethon offers a comparative study of the Phaethon myth.

Book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology  Volume 88

Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 88 written by D. R. Shackleton Bailey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of thirteen essays includes "Tantalus and Anaxagoras"; "Notes on Seneca 'Rhetor'"; "More on Pseudo-Quintilian's Longer Declamations"; "Lurius Varus, a Stray Consular Legate"; and "Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: The Modern View of Dionysus from Nietzsche to Girard."

Book Aspects of Ecphrastic Technique in Ovid s Metamorphoses

Download or read book Aspects of Ecphrastic Technique in Ovid s Metamorphoses written by Liz Norton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By first examining the origins of ecphrasis as a rhetorical trope, as well as its association with simile, the author provides an historical context on which to base a discussion of Ovid’s own use of the device. Consideration is given to recent theoretical approaches to the subject, as well as to a selection of ancient texts that may have influenced Ovid’s work. After this, a more in-depth examination of relevant passages within the Metamorphoses is undertaken. The author concludes by considering the benefits of an intertextual approach to the material, as well as looking at the extent to which Ovid’s determination to both allude to and outdo his predecessors, influenced the style and substance of his work. In looking at the links between the literary and plastic arts, the reader is invited to consider the possibility that Ovid’s pre-occupation with artists and artistic endeavours makes the Metamorphoses itself both an extended ecphrasis and a commentary on Ovid’s obsession with his own artistry.

Book Euripides and Quotation Culture

Download or read book Euripides and Quotation Culture written by Matthew Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture. Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a selective survey of ways in which Euripidean tragedy was quoted within antiquity, both in social contexts (on the comic stage, at symposia, in law courts, in education) and in different literary genres (drama, biography, oratory, philosophy, literary scholarship, history and anthologies). There is also a discussion of the connection between quotability and classic status, where Wright asks what quotations can tell us about ancient reading habits. The implication is that Euripides actively participated in quotation culture by deliberately making certain portions of his plays stand out as especially quotable. Within classical antiquity, Euripides was the most widely quoted author apart from Homer. His plays are full of 'quotable quotes', which were repeated so often that they acquired a life of their own. Hundreds of famous verses from Euripidean drama circulated widely within the ancient world, even after the plays in which they originally featured became forgotten or vanished completely. Indeed, the majority of Euripides' tragedies now survive only in the form of scattered quotations, otherwise known to us as 'fragments'. It is this corpus of fragmentary quotations, along with his extant plays, that makes Euripides such an interesting case study in the world of quotation culture. This book is the first of its kind to understand Euripides' work through this lens, as well as opening up quotation culture as a major theme of interest within classical scholarship.

Book Phaethon  Eine arch  ologische Abhandlung zur Feier des Winkelmannstages 1856  etc

Download or read book Phaethon Eine arch ologische Abhandlung zur Feier des Winkelmannstages 1856 etc written by Friedrich Julius August WIESELER and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek Drama V

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  • Author : Hallie Marshall
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-02-06
  • ISBN : 1350142379
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Greek Drama V written by Hallie Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them. Sixteen chapters from a field of international contributors examine a range of topics, from the politics of the ancient theatre, to the role of the chorus, to the earliest history of the reception of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Employing anthropological, historical, and psychological critical methods alongside performance analysis and textual criticism, these studies bring fresh and original interpretations to the plays. Several contributions analyse fragmentary tragedies, while others incorporate ideas on the performance aspect of certain plays. The final chapters deal separately with comedy, naturally focusing on the plays of Aristophanes and Menander. Greek Drama V offers a window into where the academic field of Greek drama is now, and points towards the future scholarship it will produce.

Book A Companion to Euripides

Download or read book A Companion to Euripides written by Laura K. McClure and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet’s enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre. Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides’ plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.

Book Performance  Iconography  Reception

Download or read book Performance Iconography Reception written by Martin Revermann and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance, Reception, Iconography assembles twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal work of Oliver Taplin. Oliver Taplin has for over three decades been at the forefront of innovation in the study of Greek literature, and of the Greek theatre, tragic and comic, in particular. The studies in this volume centre on three key areas - the performance of Greek literature, the interactions between literature and the visual realm of iconography, and the reception and appropriation of Greek literature, and of Greek culture more widely, in subsequent historical periods.

Book Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

Download or read book Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities written by Marie-Claire Beaulieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting, and a deep reflection on the effectiveness of digital media in opening the field to new audiences. The study of classical art always oscillates between archaeology and classics, between the study of ancient texts and archaeological material. For this reason, it is often difficult to collect all the data, to have access to both types of information on an equal basis. The increasing development of digital collections and databases dedicated to both archaeological material and ancient texts is a direct response to this problem. The book’s central theme is the role of the digital humanities, especially digital collection,s such as the Digital Milliet, in the study of ancient Greek and Roman painting. Part 1 focuses on the transition between the original print version of the Recueil Milliet and its digital incarnation. Part 2 addresses the application of digital tools to the analysis of ancient art. Part 3 focuses on ancient wall painting. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, classics, archaeology, and digital humanities.

Book Ovid s Homer

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  • Author : Barbara Weiden Boyd
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-11-07
  • ISBN : 0190680067
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Ovid s Homer written by Barbara Weiden Boyd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.

Book Defining Orphism

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  • Author : Anthi Chrysanthou
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2020-04-20
  • ISBN : 3110678535
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Defining Orphism written by Anthi Chrysanthou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex matter of Orphism has so far been addressed by scholars through studies focusing on one of its components each time, primarily the Derveni Papyrus and the Gold Tablets while the text of the Orphic Rhapsodies has remained under-examined mostly due to its fragmentary nature and the lack of a reconstruction. This book brings all of the major components of Orphism together in one study, in this way highlighting both parallels and divergences between them, and a wide range of non-Orphic sources referring to Orphic practices, beliefs and texts. For the complete analysis of the Orphic Rhapsodies a reconstruction of the text was necessary, which is included in this book along with a commentary and translation. This work proposes a new definition of Orphism and it can constitute a whole-encompassing and concise guide for scholars and students interested in Orphism. The reconstruction of the Orphic Rhapsodies could also contribute on shifting the understanding of this work to new perspectives as it demonstrates that the Orphic Rhapsodies was a more complex text rather than a single continuous theogonic narrative as has been approached up to this date.

Book Metapoetry in Euripides

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  • Author : Isabelle Torrance
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-31
  • ISBN : 0199657831
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Metapoetry in Euripides written by Isabelle Torrance and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the self-conscious narrative devices within Euripidean drama and how these are interwoven with issues of thematic importance, social, theological, or political. Torrance argues that Euripides employed a complex system of metapoetic strategies in order to draw the audience's attention to the novelty of his compositions.