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Book Homer  The creation of the poems

Download or read book Homer The creation of the poems written by Irene J. F. de Jong and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plot and Point of View in the Iliad

Download or read book Plot and Point of View in the Iliad written by Robert J. Rabel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Homer, the poet of the Iliad, may be fully distinguished from the narrator of Homeric poetry

Book The Classical Weekly

Download or read book The Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iliad

Download or read book The Iliad written by Richard Janko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on The Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G.S. Kirk, covers Books 13-16, including the Battle for the Ships, the Deception of Zeus and the Death of Patroklos. Three introductory essays discuss the role of Homer's gods in his poetry; the origins and development of the epic diction; and the transmission of the text, from the bard's lips to our own manuscripts. It is now widely recognised that the first masterpiece of Western literature is an oral poem; Professor Janko's detailed commentary aims to show how this recognition can clarify many linguistic and textual problems, entailing a radical reassessment of the work of Homer's Alexandrian editors. The commentary also explores the poet's subtle creativity in adapting traditional materials, whether formulae, typical scenes, mythology or imagery, so as best to move, inspire and entertain his audience, ancient and modern alike. Discussion of the poem's literary qualities and structure is, where possible, kept separate from that of more technical matters.

Book Homer   s Iliad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claude Brügger
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2018-05-07
  • ISBN : 3110557193
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Homer s Iliad written by Claude Brügger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Book The Classical World

Download or read book The Classical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iliad

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  • Author : Bruce Louden
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2006-05-05
  • ISBN : 0801889189
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book The Iliad written by Bruce Louden and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-05-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending his distinctive analysis of Homeric epic to the Iliad, Bruce Louden, author of The "Odyssey": Structure, Narration, and Meaning, again presents new approaches to understanding the themes and story of the poem. In this thought-provoking study, he demonstrates how repeated narrative motifs argue for an expanded understanding of the structure of epic poetry. First identifying the "subgenres" of myth within the poem, he then reads these against related mythologies of the Near East, developing a context in which the poem can be more accurately interpreted. Louden begins by focusing on the ways in which the Iliad's three movements correspond with and comment on each other. He offers original interpretations of many episodes, notably in books 3 and 7, and makes new arguments about some well-known controversies (e.g., the duals in book 9), the Iliad's use of parody, the function of theomachy, and the prefiguring of Hektor as a sacrificial victim in books 3 and 6. The second part of the book compares fourteen subgenres of myth in the Iliad to contemporaneous Near Eastern traditions such as those of the Old Testament and of Ugaritic mythology. Louden concludes with an extended comparison of the Homeric Athena and Anat, a West Semitic goddess worshipped by the Phoenicians and Egyptians. Louden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry.

Book The Iliad  A Commentary  Volume 5  Books 17 20

Download or read book The Iliad A Commentary Volume 5 Books 17 20 written by G. S. Kirk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of the major six-volume commentary on Homer's Iliad is the first to be edited by one of G.S. Kirk's four collaborators. It also consists of four introductory essays (including discussions of similes and other features of narrative style) followed by the commentary.

Book Homer   s Iliad

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  • Author : Martha Krieter-Spiro
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2018-03-19
  • ISBN : 311056940X
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Homer s Iliad written by Martha Krieter-Spiro and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Book Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic

Download or read book Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic written by Francis C. Blessington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, first published in 1979, explores the idea that all spheres of action - hell, heaven, and earth - of the classical epic is relevant to all parts of Paradise Lost. The author also examines the structure, style, and the narrator of the text. This title will be of great interest to students of Milton and English Literature.

Book Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

Download or read book Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus written by Christopher Athanasious Faraone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the evidence for short, non-epic hexametrical genres as a way of gaining new insights into the variety of their often ritual performance, their early history and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems, by playing with and sometimes overturning the generic expectations of their audiences or readers. In doing so it combines literary and ritual studies to produce a rich and detailed picture of a number of genres performed in temples, such as hymns and laments for Adonis, or in other spaces likewise dedicated to traditional speech-acts, such as epithalamia, oracles or incantations. It deals primarily with the recovery of a number of lost or under-appreciated hexametrical genres, which are usually left out of modern taxonomies of archaic hexametrical poetry, either because they survive only in fragments or because the earliest evidence for them dates to the classical period and beyond. Of central importance will be the surviving hexametrical poets, especially those of archaic and Hellenistic date, who embed or imitate traditional hexametrical genres of shorter duration either to give a recognizable internal structure to a shorter poem or to an episode or speech within a longer one"--

Book Perfidy and Passion

Download or read book Perfidy and Passion written by Mark Buchan and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer’s Iliad is often considered a poem of blunt truthfulness, his characters’ motivation pleasingly simple. A closer look, however, reveals a complex interplay of characters who engage in an awful lot of lies. Beginning with Achilles, who hatches a secret plot to destroy his own people, Mark Buchan traces motifs of deception and betrayal throughout the poem. Homer’s heroes offer bluster, their passion linked to and explained by their lack of authenticity. Buchan reads Homer’s characters between the lies, showing how the plot is structured individual denial and what cannot be said.

Book The Iliad  A Commentary

Download or read book The Iliad A Commentary written by Geoffrey Stephen Kirk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G.S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad. It consists of four introductory chapters, dealing in particular with rhythm and formular techniques, followed by the detailed commentary which aims at helping serious readers by attempting to identify and deal with most of the difficulties which might stand in the way of a sensitive and informed response to the poem. The Catalogues in Book 2 recieve especially full treatment. The book does not include a Greek text - important matters pertaining to the text are discussed in the commentary. It is hoped that the volume as a whole will lead scholars to a better understanding of the epic style as well as of many well-known thematic problems on a larger scale. This Commentary will be an essential reference work for all students of Greek literature. Archaeologists and historians will also find that it contains matters of relevance to them.

Book Harvard studies in classical philology

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  • Author : Harvard University Department of Classics
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9780674379190
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Harvard studies in classical philology written by Harvard University Department of Classics and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homer and the Nibelungenlied

Download or read book Homer and the Nibelungenlied written by Bernard Fenik and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Carnegie Library of Atlanta
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Carnegie Library of Atlanta and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of Homeric Verse

Download or read book The Making of Homeric Verse written by Milman Parry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects for the first time the works--articles, M.A. thesis, dissertations, and journal extracts--of Milman Parry, whose death at thirty-three brought to a precipitous end the career of one of the leading classical scholars of our century.