Download or read book The Letters of Alciphron written by Michèle Biraud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?’ (Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker editors) offer a dozen papers on an misknown author of the Second Sophistic, Alciphron, aiming to show the unity of his literary project.
Download or read book The Letters of Alciphron Aelian and Philostratus written by Alciphron and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Alciphron Illustrated written by Alciphron and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alciphron was a second century AD writer of highly literary and stylistic letters, owing much to the New Comedy of Menander, while providing a fascinating window into the social life of Athens after the reign of Alexander. The letters represent some of the most important and appealing compositions of the Second Sophistic period. They comprise a wide variety of circumstances, detailing the colourful lives of parasites, courtesans, fishermen and farmers; the theme of erotic love is never far. Alciphron’s inventive imagination and compelling realism have won him a place of distinction in the early development of romantic prose. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This eBook presents Alciphron’s complete extant works, with illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Alciphron's life and works * Features the complete extant works of Alciphron, in both English translation and the original Greek * Concise introductions * Provides multiple translations of the letters * The 1896 Athenian Society appears with hyperlinked endnotes, ideal for students * Also includes F. A. Wright’s 1922 translation, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the letters you want to read with individual contents tables * Features a brief biography Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translations The Letters of Alciphron, 1896 Translation Letters from the Country and the Town, of Fishermen, Farmers, Parasites and Courtesans, 1922 Translation The Greek Text Contents of the Greek Text The Biography Brief Biography Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Download or read book Letters of Alciphron written by Frank Redmond and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALCIPHRON, a Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Respecting his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatever. Some of the earlier critics placed him, without any plausible reason, in the fifth century CE. Others who followed them placed Alciphron in the period between Lucian and Aristaenetus, that is, between 170 and 350 CE, while others again assign to him a date even earlier than the time of Lucian. The only circumstance that suggests anything respecting his age is the fact, that among the letters of Aristaenetus there are two (i. 5 and 22) between Lucian and Alciphron; now as Aristaenetus is nowhere guilty of any great historical inaccuracy, we may safely infer that Alciphron was a contemporary of Lucian—an inference which is not incompatible with the opinion, whether true or false, that Alciphron imitated Lucian. We possess under the name of Alciphron 116 fictitious letters, in 3 books, the object of which is to delineate the characters of certain classes of men, by introducing them as expressing their peculiar sentiments and opinions upon subjects with which they were familiar. The classes of persons which Alciphron chose for this purpose are fishermen, country people, parasites, and hetaerae or Athenian courtesans. All are made to express their sentiments in the most graceful and elegant language, even where the subjects are of a low or obscene kind. The characters are thus somewhat raised above their common standard, without any great violation of the truth of reality. The form of these letters is exquisitely beautiful, and the language is the pure Attic dialect, such as it was spoken in the best times in familiar but refined conversation at Athens. The scene from which the letters are dated is, with a few exceptions, Athens and its vicinity; and the time, wherever it is discernible, is the period after the reign of Alexander the Great. The new Attic comedy was the principal source from which the author derived his information respecting the characters and manners which he describes, and for this reason these letters contain much valuable information about the private life of the Athenians of that time. It has been said, that Alciphron is an imitator of Lucian; but besides the style, and, in a few instances, the subject matter, there is no resemblance between the two writers: the spirit in which the two treat their subjects is totally different. Both derived their materials from the same sources, and in style both aimed at the greatest perfection of the genuine Attic Greek. Bergler has truly remarked that Alciphron stands in the same relation to Menander as Lucian to Aristophanes. The first edition of Alciphron's letters is that of Aldus, in his collection of the Greek Epistolographers, Venice, 1499. This edition, however, contains only those letters which, in more modern editions, form the first two books. Seventy-two new letters were added from a Vienna and a Vatican MS. by Bergler, in his edition (Leipzig, 1715) with notes and a Latin translation. These seventy-two epistles form the third book in Bergler's edition. J. A. Wagner, in his edition (Leipzig, 1798, 2 vols, with the notes of Bergler), added two new letters entire, and fragments of five others.
Download or read book Letters of Alciphron Elian and Philostratus written by Alciphron Aelian (Philostratus.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Letters of Alciphron Aelian and Philostratus with an English Translation by Allen Rogers Benner and Francis H Fobes written by Aelianus, Claudius. Epistolas and published by Cambridge, Harvard U. P. This book was released on 1949 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Alciphron written by F. A. Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alciphron: Letters From the Country and the Town, of Fishermen, Farmers, Parasites and Courtesans Form in literature to the classical Greeks was a con trolling and dominating force. A writer could not alter his form to suit his own caprice, he worked always under definite rules Of style which traced back to immemorial antiquity. Poetry was older than prose and a poetical form was binding for all imaginative work. The language and the style appropriate for lyric, epic, and Ode were of very varying degrees of complexity and they were fixed beforehand for the poet. The difference between Timotheus and Sappho is not purely one of personal temperament; Timotheus is not elaborate and Sappho simple merely because they wish to be; they both are constrained by the convention of their literary form. So even the same author in the same composition was often compelled to use a different treatment; the dialogue Of tragedy is easier than the chorus, because the music of choral poetry was ruled by a convention extraordinarily subtle and difficult, the music of the Spoken word was comparatively simple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Alciphron Aelian and Philostratus written by Alciphron and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Alciphron Letters Literally and completely translated from the Greek with introduction and notes Gr Eng written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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