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Book The Bow and the Lyre

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Octavio Paz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

Book The Bow and the Lyre  El Arco Y la Lira

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre El Arco Y la Lira written by Octavio Paz and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bow and the Lyre

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  • Author : Seth Benardete
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0742565963
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Seth Benardete and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings.

Book The Bow and the Lyre

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  • Author : Seth Benardete
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2008-10-14
  • ISBN : 0742565971
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Seth Benardete and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting interpretation of the Odyssey, the late renowned scholar Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings. In light of this possibility, Bernardete works back and forth from Homer to Plato to examine the relation between wisdom and justice and tries to recover an original understanding of philosophy that Plato, too, recovered by reflecting on the wisdom of the poet. At stake in his argument is no less than the history of philosophy and the ancient understanding of poetry. The Bow and the Lyre is a book that every classicist and historian of philosophy should have.

Book The Bow and the Lyre

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  • Author : Roma Alvah King
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Roma Alvah King and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bow and the Lyre

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  • Author : Roma Alvah King
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Roma Alvah King and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bow   the Lyre  the Art of Robert Browning

Download or read book The Bow the Lyre the Art of Robert Browning written by Roma a (Roma Alvah) 1914- King and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Bow and the Lyre

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  • Author : Roma A. King
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780758120397
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book The Bow and the Lyre written by Roma A. King and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bow   the Lyre

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  • Author : Roma Alvah King
  • Publisher : Ann Arbor, U. of Michigan P
  • Release : 1957
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book The Bow the Lyre written by Roma Alvah King and published by Ann Arbor, U. of Michigan P. This book was released on 1957 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Singers  Heroes  and Gods in the Odyssey

Download or read book Singers Heroes and Gods in the Odyssey written by Charles Segal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns are taken into account as well. Bringing a new richness to interpretation of this epic, Segal looks closely at key forms of social and personal organization which Odysseus encounters in his voyages. Segal also considers such topics as the relationship between bard and audience, the implications of the Odyssey's self-consciousness about its own poetics, and Homer's treatment of the nature of poetry.

Book The Ballad of the White Horse

Download or read book The Ballad of the White Horse written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun under the auspices of God working through the agency of the Virgin Mary. In addition to being a narration of Alfred's military and political accomplishments, it is also considered a Catholic allegory. Chesterton incorporates a significant amount of philosophy into the basic structure of the story. Aeterna Press

Book Muse   Drudge

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  • Author : Harryette Romell Mullen
  • Publisher : Singing Horse Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Muse Drudge written by Harryette Romell Mullen and published by Singing Horse Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega

Download or read book The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Politics of Olympos

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  • Author : Michael Brumbaugh
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-10-02
  • ISBN : 0190059273
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The New Politics of Olympos written by Michael Brumbaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Politics of Olympos explores the dynamics of praise, power, and persuasion in Kallimachos' hymns, detailing how they simultaneously substantiate and interrogate the radically new phenomenon of Hellenistic kingship taking shape during Kallimachos' lifetime. Long before the Ptolemies invested vast treasure in establishing Alexandria as the center of Hellenic culture and learning, tyrants such as Peisistratos and Hieron recognized the value of poetry in advancing their political agendas. Plato, too, saw the vast power inherent in poetry, and famously advocated either censoring it (Republic) or harnessing it (Laws) for the good of the political community. As Xenophon notes in his Hieron and Pindar demonstrates in his politically charged epinikian hymns, wielding poetry's power entails a complex negotiation between the poet, the audience, and political leaders. Kallimachos' poetic medium for engaging in this dynamic, the hymn, had for centuries served as an unparalleled vehicle for negotiating with the super-powerful. The New Politics of Olympos offers the first in-depth analysis of Kallimachos' only fully extant poetry book, the Hymns, by examining its contemporary political setting, engagement with a tradition of political thought stretching back to Homer, and portrayal of the poet as an image-maker for the king. In addition to investigating the political dynamics in the individual hymns, this book details how the poet's six hymns, once juxtaposed within a single bookroll, constitute a macro-narrative on the prerogatives of Ptolemaic kingship. Throughout the collection Kallimachos refigures the infamously factious divine family as a paradigm of stability and good governance in concert with the self-fashioning of the Ptolemaic dynasty. At the same time, the poet defines the characteristics and behaviors worthy of praise, effectively shaping contemporary political ethics. Thus, for a Ptolemaic reader, this poetry book may have served as an education in and inducement to good kingship.

Book Plato s Pigs and Other Ruminations

Download or read book Plato s Pigs and Other Ruminations written by M. D. Usher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience – from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule – Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.

Book Heraclitus

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  • Author : Martin Heidegger
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-11-29
  • ISBN : 1474249191
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Heraclitus written by Martin Heidegger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on Heidegger's understanding of Greek thinking, as well as his understanding of Germany, the history of philosophy, the Western world, and their shared destinies.