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Book Synopsis Divi Claudii Apokolokyntosis by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Divi Claudii Apokolokyntosis written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world.
Download or read book Apocolocyntosis written by Lucius Seneca and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally The Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a political satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, probably written by Seneca the Younger. It is one of only two examples of Menippean satire from the classical era that have survived, the other being Petronius' Satyricon. The title plays upon "apotheosis," the process by which dead Roman emperors were recognized as gods. "Apocolocyntosis" is in fact Latinized Greek, and sometimes transliterated Apokolokyntosis. In the manuscripts the anonymous work bears the title Ludus de morte Divi Claudii ("Play on the death of the Divine Claudius"). The title Apokolokyntosis (Attic Greek, "Gourdification," sometimes also translated as "Pumpkinification") comes from the Roman historian Dio Cassius, who wrote in Greek. Dio Cassius attributed authorship of a satirical text on the death of Claudius, called Apokolokyntosis, to Seneca the Younger. Only much later was the work referred to by Dio Cassius identified (with some degree of uncertainty) with the "Ludus" text.
Download or read book Apocolocyntosis written by Lucius Seneca and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apocolocyntosis is a political satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, probably written by Seneca the Younger. The work traces the death of Claudius, his ascent to heaven and judgment by the gods, and his eventual descent to Hades. At each turn, of course, Seneca mocks the late emperor's personal failings, most notably his arrogant cruelty and his inarticulateness. After Mercury persuades Clotho to kill the emperor, Claudius walks to Mount Olympus, where he convinces Hercules to let the gods hear his suit for deification in a session of the divine senate. Proceedings are in Claudius' favor until Augustus delivers a long and sincere speech listing some of Claudius' most notorious crimes.
Book Synopsis Seneca's Apocolocyntosis by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Seneca's Apocolocyntosis written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1978 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Apokolokyntosis by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca (le Jeune.)
Download or read book Apokolokyntosis written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (le Jeune.) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apocolocyntosis written by Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent print edition of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis contains the authoritative translation of W.H.D. Rouse, complete with footnotes. The Apocolocyntosis by Seneca is a satire aimed at the Roman Emperor Claudius. Together with Petronius's Satyricon, it holds the distinction of being the only surviving satire of the Menippean genre of classical antiquity. The title itself is a play upon words, with the term "apotheosis", connoting the process in which dead Roman emperors were recognized as Gods and deified. Intended as a comedy, the play chronicles the death of the Emperor Claudius, and his rise toward the heavens. However, the Gods cast judgment that he should instead descend to Hades - a sentence which Claudius contests, by appealing to the God Hercules. Thereafter begins a drama in the divine court, wherein Claudius deeds are held up and examined by several figures in the Greek Pantheon. Unfortunately, the speeches of each of the Gods sitting at court have been lost to time, although the plot of the Apocolocyntosis survives. Seneca himself felt wronged by Claudius, who had forcibly exiled him to the island of Corsica. There he conceived of this satire as a means of both revenge and of proving an important political point: that apotheosis as a custom had become overused and politicised, its original aim of venerating Emperor's good deeds diluted and sullied with a succession of less-than-able Emperors of Rome passing through office. Despite these obvious misgivings, the text still flatters the reigning Emperor Nero, complimenting the ruler's wisdom and wishing him long life.
Book Synopsis Seneca's Apocolocyntosis by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Seneca's Apocolocyntosis written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Seneca by : Andreas Heil
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Seneca written by Andreas Heil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.
Book Synopsis Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion by : H. S. Versnel
Download or read book Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion written by H. S. Versnel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of a two-part collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion focuses on the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal.
Book Synopsis Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual by : Henk Versnel
Download or read book Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual written by Henk Versnel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a two-volume collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. While the first volume focused on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism, the present one discusses the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal. After an introduction to the history of the myth and ritual debate (with a focus on New Year festivals and initiation) in the first chapter, the second and third chapters discuss myth and ritual of reversal—Kronos and the Kronia, and Saturnus and the Saturnalia respectively; the fourth treats two women's festivals—that of Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria; the fifth investigates the initiatory aspects of Apollo and Mars. In the background is the basic conviction that the three approaches to religion known as 'substantivistic', functionalist and cultural-symbolic respectively, need not be mutually exclusive.
Book Synopsis The Satire of Seneca on the Apotheosis of Claudius Commonly Called the Apocolocyntosis by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book The Satire of Seneca on the Apotheosis of Claudius Commonly Called the Apocolocyntosis written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hidden Author by : Gian Biagio Conte
Download or read book The Hidden Author written by Gian Biagio Conte and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." But this episode is only one part of the larger picture of life during Nero's rule presented in the work. In this accessible discussion of Petronius's masterful use of parody, Gian Biagio Conte offers an interpretation of the Satyricon as a whole. He combines the scholarly precision of close reading with a significant, original theoretical model. At the heart of his interpretation, Conte reveals the technique of the "hidden author" that Petronius employs at the expense of his characters, in particular the teller of the story, Enclopius. By remaining hidden outside the narrative, Petronius invites the reader to smile at the folies de grandeur that occur in a culture of scholars and declaimers. Yet as Conte shows, behind the parody and inexhaustible humor of the Satyricon lies an unexpectedly serious lament. For those familiar with the Satyricon, as well as for new readers, Conte's book will be a reliable, enjoyable guide to the wonders the Satyricon contains.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Stemmatology by : Philipp Roelli
Download or read book Handbook of Stemmatology written by Philipp Roelli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text whose autograph has been lost. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects of traditional as well as modern digital methods and their history. As an art (ars), stemmatology’s main goal is editing and thus presenting to the reader a historical text in the most satisfactory way. As a more abstract discipline (scientia), it is interested in the general principles of how texts change in the process of being copied. Thirty eight experts from all of the fields involved have joined forces to write this handbook, whose eight chapters cover material aspects of text traditions, the genesis and methods of traditional "Lachmannian" textual criticism and the objections raised against it, as well as modern digital methods used in the field. The two concluding chapters take a closer look at how this approach towards texts and textual criticism has developed in some disciplines of textual scholarship and compare methods used in other fields that deal with "descent with modification". The handbook thus serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary field.
Book Synopsis The Satire of Seneca on the Apotheosis of Claudius by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book The Satire of Seneca on the Apotheosis of Claudius written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prosimetrum written by Joseph Harris and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually all the literary traditions of the world there are works of verbal art that depend for part of their effect on the juxtaposition of prose and verse. This volume takes the first step towards a comparative study of prosimetrum', the mixture of prose and verse, with essays by leading linguists and literary scholars of a selection of prosimetrical traditions. The nature of what constitutes verse or prose is one underlying question addressed. An outline of historical developments emerges, especially for Europe and the Near East, with articles on classical, medieval and nineteenth-century literatures. Oriental prosimetrical literatures discussed include that of Vedic India and the old literary cultures of China and Japan; also represented are oral and oral-derived folk literatures of recent centuries in Africa, the West, and Inner Asia.(This volume takes the first step towards a comparative study of prosimetrum', the mixture of prose and verse, in a wide range of literarycultures. An outline of historical developments emerges, especially for Europe and the Near East, with articles on classical, medieval and nineteenth-century literatures. Oriental prosimetrical literatures discussed include that of Vedic India and the old literary cultures of China and Japan; also represented are oral and oral-derived folk literatures of recent centuries in Africa, the West, and Inner Asia.) Professor KARL REICHLteaches in the English Department at the University of Bonn; Professor JOSEPH HARRIS teaches in the English Department at Harvard University. Contributors: KRISTIN HANSON, PAUL KIPARSKY, JAN ZIOLKOWSKI, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, PROINSIAS Mac CANA, JOSEPH HARRIS, JUDITH RYAN, W.F.H. NICOLAISEN, LEE HARING, STEVEN WEITZMAN, WOLFHART HEINRICHS, DWIGHT REYNOLDS, JULIE SCOTT MEISAMI, KARL REICHL, WALTHER HEISSIG
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