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Author : Delphian Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Greek drama, philosophy and literature. The story of Rome written by Delphian Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delphian Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Greek drama, philosophy and literature. The story of Rome written by Delphian Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delphian Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek drama, philosophy and literature. The story of Rome written by Delphian Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192100207
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds written by Oliver Taplin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.
Author : Alfred Bates
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Drama ; Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization: Greek and Roman drama written by Alfred Bates and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521359832
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world would not be considered 'Literary', the ancients made a less sharp distinction between intellectual and artistic production, and the authors included in this volume are some of Europe's most powerful stylists: Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes.
Author : L. Ruprecht
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299192
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Was Greek Thought Religious? written by L. Ruprecht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places - everywhere from the U.S. Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games - and in doing so makes an important new contribution to a very old debate.
Author : Frederic Will
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527555674
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature, Language, Script, Imagination and Philosophy written by Frederic Will and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece. Part One considers the major genres of ancient Greek literature: epic, history, drama, satire, lyric, and philosophy. It profiles some of the key issues and authors of each period, characterizes the literature of each period, and sprinkles quotes through the whole. Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture, including language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class structure; gender relations; innovations; trade; and science. Overall, the book will serve as both reference guide and launchpad for ongoing attention to our Hellenic heritage.
Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191053651
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome written by Christopher Pelling and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, showing how these great figures from classical antiquity still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today (of war and courage, dictatorship and democracy, empire, immigration, city life, art, madness, irrationality, and religious commitment), and express some of our most personal sentiments (about family and friendship, desire and separation, grief and happiness). These twelve classical voices can sound both compellingly familiar and startlingly alien to the twenty-first century reader. Yet they remain suggestive and inspiring, despite being rooted in their own times and places, and have profoundly affected the lives of those prepared to listen to them right up to the present day.
Author : Bruno Snell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143465
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of the Mind written by Bruno Snell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illuminating and convincing account of the enormous change in the whole conception of morals and human personality which took place during the centuries covered by Homer, the early lyric poets, the dramatists, and Socrates." — The Times (London) Literary Supplement. European thinking began with the Greeks. Science, literature, ethics, philosophy — all had their roots in the extraordinary civilization that graced the shores of the Mediterranean a few millennia ago. The rise of thinking among the Greeks was nothing less than a revolution; they did not simply map out new areas for thought and discussion, they literally created the idea of man as an intellectual being — an unprecedented concept that decisively influenced the subsequent evolution of European thought. In this immensely erudite book, German classicist Bruno Snell traces the establishment of a rational view of the nature of man as evidenced in the literature of the Greeks — in the creations of epic and lyric poetry, and in the drama. Here are the crucial stages in the intellectual evolution of the Greek world: the Homeric world view, the rise of the individual in the early Greek lyric, myth and reality in Greek tragedy, Greek ethics, the origin of scientific thought, and Arcadia. Drawing extensively on the works of Homer, Pindar, Archilochus, Aristophanes, Sappho, Heraclitus, the Greek tragedians, Parmenides, Callimachus, and a host of other writers and thinkers, Snell shows how the Homeric myths provided a blueprint for the intellectual structure the Greeks erected; how the notion of universality in Greek tragedy broadened into philosophical generalization; how the gradual unfolding of the concepts of intellect and soul provided the foundation for philosophy, science, ethics, and finally, religion. Unquestionably one of the monuments of the Geistegeschichte (History of Ideas) tradition, The Discovery of the Mind throws fresh light on many long-standing problems and has had a wide influence on scholars of the Greek intellectual tradition. Closely reasoned, replete with illuminating insight, the book epitomizes the best in German classical scholarship — a brilliant exploration of the archetypes of Western thought; a penetrating explanation of how we came to think the way we do.
Author : Michael K. Kellogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616149256
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Roman Search for Wisdom written by Michael K. Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman "philosophy of life" as mirrored in the literature of ten outstanding representative authors Though Rome conquered much of the world and established an empire that lasted more than a millennium, its citizens sometimes expressed a sense of inferiority to the intellectual accomplishments of ancient Greece. The notion that Roman philosophers, thinkers, and writers were just pale imitations of Greek originals has persisted to this day. Even the great Roman poet Horace wrote, "Captive Greece took its Roman captor captive,/ Invading uncouth Latium with its arts." Michael K. Kellogg puts this notion to rest in this lively, very readable overview of Roman literature. The author uncovers many examples of Roman wisdom, showing that the Roman contribution to intellectual history is considerable and need not take second place to ancient Greek literature. Kellogg offers fresh and engaging portraits of poets (Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid); dramatists (Plautus, Terence, Seneca); biographers (Plutarch, Suetonius); historians (Livy, Tacitus); and philosophers (Cicero, Marcus Aurelius), against the background of Roman history. The contemporary reader will come away from this excellent survey with the realization that even today our culture still bears the lasting imprint of ancient Rome.
Author : H. Baltussen
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589136
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Consolations written by H. Baltussen and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ancient World death came - on average - at a far earlier age than in today's West, and without the authoritative warnings given by modern medicine. Consolation for the trauma of loss had, accordingly, a more prominent role to play. This volume presents eight original studies on consolatory writings from ancient Greek, Roman, early Christian and Arabic societies. The authors include internationally recognised authorities in the field. They offer insight into the ancient experience of loss and the methods used to palliate it. They explore how far there was a consolatory 'genre', involving letters, funerary oratory, epicedia, and philosophical prose. Focusing on responses to grief in numerous ancient authors, this volume finds elements of continuity and of individual variety in modes of consolation, and reveals instructive tensions between the commonplace and the personal.
Author : Harry E. Wedeck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442233796
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Classics of Greek Literature written by Harry E. Wedeck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1963-01-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks have exercised the greatest influence on Western culture, and we are indebted to them for their artistic, dramatic and philosophical achievements. The Greek ideal of perfection, both intellectual and physical, pervades much of their literature. They were both idealistic and realistic and they contemplated man as a harmonious synthesis of these two attitudes. This anthology contains the most significant and uniquely interesting contributions of its literary legacy. The passages selected are either complete in themselves or are so self-contained as to be readily understandable. Here, in relevant sections, arranged chronologically, are selections from the poetry of Homer, Pindar, and Sappho, among others; from the drama of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes; from the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle; from the histories written by Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon. Oratory and Satire are represented by Demosthenes, Aesthines and Lucian. Biographical and explanatory notes precede each extract. Some of the translations have long been standard versions, while others are made by the editor himself. Dr. Wedeck has also edited the companion volume to this book, Classics of Roman Literature.
Author : George Kazantzidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110597101
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art written by George Kazantzidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and addresses the difficult question of whether hope -ancient and modern- is an emotion. On the other hand, the 16 contributions deal with specific aspects of hope in Greek and Latin literature, history and art, including Pindar's poetry, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, Virgil's epic and Tacitus' Historiae. The volume also explores from a historical perspective the hopes of slaves in antiquity, the importance of hope for the enhancement of stereotypes about the barbarians, and the depiction of hope in visual culture, providing thereby a useful tool not only for classicist but also for philosophers, cultural historians and political scientists.
Author : Andromache Karanika
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135124339X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome written by Andromache Karanika and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world, focusing on literary texts from different genres (epic, theatre, lyric poetry, philosophy, historiography) and archaeological evidence. The material covered spans geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea, with a chronological range from about 8th c. bce to 1st c. ce. The collection is organized according to broad themes to showcase the wide range of possibilities that trauma theory offers as a theoretical framework for a new analysis of ancient sources. It also demonstrates the various ways in which ancient texts illuminate contemporary problems and debates in trauma studies.
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greek Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691225397
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Classical Pasts written by James I. Porter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current understanding of the term. The book seeks not to arrive at a final definition, but rather to provide a cultural history of the concept by exploring how the meanings of "classical" have been created, recreated, and rejected over time. The book asks questions that have been nearly absent from the scholarly literature. Does "classical" refer to a specific period of history or to the artistic products of that time? How has its definition changed? Did those who lived in classical times have some understanding of what the term "classical" has meant? How coherent, consistent, or even justified is the term? The book's introduction provides a generous theoretical and historical overview. It is followed by eleven chapters in which the contributors argue for the existence not of a single classical past, but of multiple, competing classical pasts. The essays address a broad range of topics--Homer and early Greek poetry and music, Isocrate, Hellenistic and Roman art, Cicero and Greek philosophy, the history of Latin literature, imperial Greek literature, and more. The most up-to-date and challenging treatment of the topic available, this collection will be of lasting interest to students and scholars of ancient and modern literature, art, and cultural history.
