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Book Synopsis The Transvestite Achilles by : P. J. Heslin
Download or read book The Transvestite Achilles written by P. J. Heslin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statius' Achilleid is a playful, witty, and open-ended epic in the manner of Ovid. As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, the poet brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behaviour: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth of Achilles on Scyros within a broad interpretive framework. The exploration ranges from the reception of the Achilleid in Baroque opera to the anthropological parallels that have been adduced to explain Achilles' transvestism. The study's expansive approach, which includes Ovid and Ovidian reception, psychoanalytic perspectives and theorizations of gender in antiquity, makes it essential reading not only for students of Statius, but for students of Latin literature, and of gender in antiquity.
Download or read book Statius, Achilleid written by C T Hadavas and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides vocabulary and commentary to Statius' unfinished epic poem Achilleid ("[The book or story] of Achilles"), which was intended to tell the life of the hero Achilles from his youth to his death at Troy. The one book and part of a second that survive (a total of 1,128 lines) recount Achilles' life from his time with the centaur Chiron to an episode in which his mother, the sea goddess Thetis, disguises him as a girl on the island of Scyros, where he falls in love with, rapes, and impregnates the princess Deidamia, who gives birth to a son, Pyrrhus. Or, to put it in somewhat different (and far more eloquent) words: "It is about a wild boy brought up in the disappointment of lost immortality, his first experience of human culture, his encounter with the odd puzzle of sex and gender; and it dramatizes the emergence, despite Achilles' confused family circumstances and lack of clear paternal guidance, of his innate virtue and destiny as an epic hero. It is thus a meditation on sons, mothers, foster-fathers and biological fathers, men and animals, men and gods, sex as power, gender as a cultural construction, and gender as innate and essential." (P. J. Heslin, The Transvestite Achilles [Cambridge, 2005], 297) The notes explicate certain syntactical and grammatical aspects that may be challenging for intermediate-advanced students, point out some (not all!) of the various literary/rhetorical figures and tropes that are employed, and supply information on historical, social, cultural, and literary issues raised by Statius' text. In order to encourage reading of the text out loud (an essential component of Latin verse's literary and musical essence, and one that often works hand-in-glove with the literary/rhetorical figures and tropes used, a section of the introduction is devoted to dactylic hexameter, the meter in which Statius' poem - like that of nearly all Latin epics - is written. Also included is John Gower's "Tale of Achilles and Deidamia," a Middle English retelling from the year 1390 of the central episode of Statius' Achilleid. For Gower's verses, glosses of words and idioms whose spelling and/or meaning has changed considerably since his time have been provided to assist the reader in understanding this fascinating offspring of Statius' poem.
Book Synopsis Broken Columns by : David R. Slavitt
Download or read book Broken Columns written by David R. Slavitt and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume.--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Book Synopsis The Thebaid by : Publius Papinius Statius
Download or read book The Thebaid written by Publius Papinius Statius and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus—Polynices and Eteocles—for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long before by Aeschylus in his tragedy Seven against Thebes. Statius chose his subject well: the Rome of his day, ruled by the emperor Domitian, was not too distant from the civil wars that had threatened the survival of the empire. Published in 92 A.D., the Thebaid was an immediate success, and its fame grew in succeeding centuries. It reached its peak of popularity in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, influencing Dante, Chaucer, and perhaps Shakespeare. In recent times, however, it has received perhaps less attention than it deserves, in large part because there has been no accessible, dynamic translation of the work into English. Charles Stanley Ross offers a compelling version of the Thebaid rendered into forceful, modern English. Casting Statius's Latin hexameter into a lively iambic pentameter more natural to the modern ear, Ross frees the work from the archaic formality that has marred previous translations. His translation reinvigorates the Thebaid as a whole: its meditative first half and its violent second half; its intimate portrayal of defeat and retribution, and the need to seek justice at any cost. In a wide-ranging introduction, Ross provides an overview of the poem: its composition, reception and legacy; its major themes and literary influences; and its place in Statius' life. And in a helpful series of notes, he offers background information on the major characters and incidents. -- Paolo Asso
Book Synopsis Weeping for Dido by : Marjorie Curry Woods
Download or read book Weeping for Dido written by Marjorie Curry Woods and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published as part of the E.H. Gombrich lecture series, cosponsored by the Warburg Institute and Princeton University Press. The lectures upon which this book is based were delivered in October 2014"--Copyright page.
Book Synopsis Thebaid, Books I-VII by : Publius Papinius Statius
Download or read book Thebaid, Books I-VII written by Publius Papinius Statius and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achilleid written by Statius and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most entertaining short narratives of all time, the Achilleid is a stand-alone work of compelling contemporary interest that moves with great rapidity and clarity. Its compact narrative, which encompasses a brutish childhood, an overprotective mother, temporary gender bending, sexual violence, and a final coming to manhood with the promise of future military prowess, may be unparalleled in a single narrative of such brevity. The text has survived in hundreds of manuscripts, sometimes copied with Statius’ much longer and lugubrious Thebaid, but just as often with other racy short narratives and dramas taught in the medieval schools. The poem’s literary playfulness, visual imagery, and lighthearted treatment of mythological and historical data made it—and can still make it—a goldmine in the classroom. Until now, however, it has been virtually impossible to get a sense of the work if one did not know Latin—recent translations notwithstanding. Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Achilleid is a dream: it’s sound, enthralling, and will fully engage readers with this enticing, perplexing, at times distressing, but ultimately rewarding work." —Marjorie Curry Woods, Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Book Synopsis Achilleid by : Publius Papinius Statius
Download or read book Achilleid written by Publius Papinius Statius and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statius' Achilleid is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. Yet the completed first book and the earliest part of the second have a charm and freshness matched only in some of Ovid's most lively and engaging work. The poem tells how the sea-nymph Thetis, in a vain attempt to save her son from his destined end in the Trojan war, hid him on the island of Scyros, disguised as a girl. There he fell in love with the beautiful Deidamia, but at the same time, with the idea of glory in war. His feminine disguise was eventually penetrated by Ulysses and Diomedes, who tricked him into exposure of his truly warlike aspirations. In relating this story Statius explores the nature of gender and the limits of the epic genre, while playfully and wittily positioning himself in the epic - and wider - poetic tradition. These themes are explored in a new introduction by Robert Cowan, which surveys the latest research on the poem. Its assessment, very much in the modern critical manner, contrasts with and complements the traditional textual and philological commentary by O.A.W. Dilke. The combination of these two distinct approaches will assist undergraduates and postgraduates in reading the text, and, at the same time, it will provide a valuable resource for the more advanced scholar.
Download or read book Thebaid written by Statius and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thebaid, a Latin epic in twelve books by Statius (c. 45–96 C. E.) reexamines events following the abdication of Oedipus, focusing on the civil war between the brothers Eteocles, King of Thebes, and Polynices, who comes at the head of an army from Argos to claim his share of royal power. The poem is long—each of the twelve books comprises over eight hundred lines—and complex, and it exploits a broad range of literary works, both Greek and Latin. Severely curtailed though he was by the emperor Domitian and his Reign of Terror, Statius nevertheless created a meditation on autocratic rule that is still of political interest today. Popular in its own time and much admired in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—most notably by Dante and Chaucer—the poem fell into obscurity and has, for readers of English, been poorly served by translators. Statius composed his poem in dactylic hexameters, the supreme verse form in antiquity. In his hands, this venerable line is flexible, capable of subtle emphases and dramatic shifts in tempo; it is an expressive, responsive medium. In this new and long-awaited translation the poet Jane Wilson Joyce employs a loose, six-beat line in her English translation, which allows her to reveal something of the original rhythm and of the interplay between sentence structure and verse framework. The clarity of Joyce's translation highlights the poem's superb versification, sophisticated use of intertextuality, and bold formal experimentation and innovation. A substantial introduction and annotations make this epic accessible to students of all levels.
Book Synopsis Allusion and Intertext by : Stephen Hinds
Download or read book Allusion and Intertext written by Stephen Hinds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into intertextuality now current. This 1998 book represents an attempt to find (or recover) some space for the study of allusion - as a project of continuing vitality - within an excitingly enlarged universe of intertexts. It combines traditional classical approaches with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking, and offers attentive close readings, innovative perspectives on literary history, and theoretical sophistication of argument. Like other volumes in the series it is among the most broadly conceived short books on Roman literature to be published in recent years.
Book Synopsis Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy by : Alison Sharrock
Download or read book Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy written by Alison Sharrock and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Homeric Study by : Henry Browne
Download or read book Handbook of Homeric Study written by Henry Browne and published by London Longmans, Green 1905.. This book was released on 1908 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Against Thebes written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-25 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The third and only remaining play in a trilogy dealing with related events, The Seven Against Thebes tells the story of the Argive attempt to claim the Kingdom of Thebes, and of the deaths of the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, each by the others hand. Long dismissed by critics as ritualistic and lacking in dramatic tension, Seven Against Thebes is revealed by Hecht and Bacon as a work of great unity and drama, one exceptionally rich in symbolism and imagery.
Book Synopsis Latin Poetry and Its Reception by : C. W. Marshall
Download or read book Latin Poetry and Its Reception written by C. W. Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All chapters reflect the wide research interests of Professor Susanna Braund, to whom the volume is dedicated. Latin Poetry and Its Reception assembles a blend of senior scholars and new voices in Latin literary studies. It makes important contributions to the understanding of kingship in Hellenistic and Roman thought, with the first four chapters dedicated to exploring this theme in Republican poetry, Virgil, Seneca, and Statius. Chapters focusing on the modern reception include case studies from the 16th to the 21st century, with discussions on Gavin Douglas, Edward Gibbon, Herman Melville, Igor Stravinsky, and Elena Ferrante, among others. No comparable volume provides a similar range. Latin Poetry and Its Reception will appeal to all scholars of Latin poetry and classical reception, from senior undergraduates to scholars in classics and other disciplines.
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Statius by : Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars
Download or read book The Poetry of Statius written by Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman poet P. Papinius Statius (ca. 45-96) is the author of two epics (the "Thebaid" and the unfinished "Achilleid") and a large corpus of occasional verse ("Silvae"). This poetry, long seen as derivative or decadent, is increasingly appreciated for the daring and originality of its responses both to the Greek and Latin literary tradition and to the contemporary Roman world. This volume offers the papers delivered at a symposium on Statius (Amsterdam 2005) by leading scholars in the field from Europe and North America. These papers demonstrate the fascination of Statius' poetry on account of the poet's vast knowledge of Greek and Latin tragedy, his rapid narrative, psychological acumen, brilliant eulogies, and pessimistic views on gods and men. The focus of the collection is on literary technique in the "Thebaid," on socio-historical aspects of the "Silvae," and on the reception of Statius in European literature and scholarship.
Book Synopsis Family in Flavian Epic by : Nikoletta Manioti
Download or read book Family in Flavian Epic written by Nikoletta Manioti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family in Flavian Epic examines the treatment of family bonds in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus’ Punica. The eleven contributions consider the representation of epic parents, children, siblings, and spouses, and their interaction with each other, demonstrating the Flavian poets’ engagement with their epic, and more generally literary, tradition. At the same time, Roman attitudes towards the family and Flavian concerns especially related to dynastic harmony and civil war also characterise both historical and mythological members of Flavian epic families.
Book Synopsis Brides, Mourners, Bacchae by : Vassiliki Panoussi
Download or read book Brides, Mourners, Bacchae written by Vassiliki Panoussi and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brides, Mourners, Bacchae will be of value to scholars of classics and ancient religions, as well as anyone interested in the study of gender in antiquity or the connection between religion and ideology.
