Homer And The Good Ruler In Antiquity And Beyond

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Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond

Author : Jacqueline Klooster
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365850
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond by : Jacqueline Klooster

Download or read book Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond written by Jacqueline Klooster and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer’s works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagogic dimension of the Iliad and the Odyssey as perceived by later thinkers and writers interested in the parameters of good rule, such as Plato, Philodemus, Polybius, Vergil, and Eustathios.

Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004506055
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles’ heartfelt anger in Homer’s Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil’s Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyze ways in which emotions such as anger, fear, pity, joy, love and sadness are portrayed. Furthermore, using recent insights from affective narratology, it studies ways in which ancient narratives evoke emotions in their readers. The volume is dedicated to Irene de Jong for her groundbreaking research into the narratology of ancient literature.

Homer the Rhetorician

Author : Baukje van den Berg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192689088
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis Homer the Rhetorician by : Baukje van den Berg

Download or read book Homer the Rhetorician written by Baukje van den Berg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer the Rhetorician is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed special popularity under the Komnenian emperors. For Eustathios, Homer was the supreme paradigm of eloquence and wisdom. Writing for an audience of aspiring or practising prose writers, he explains in his commentary what it is that makes Homer's composition so successful in rhetorical terms. This study explores the exemplary qualities that Eustathios recognizes in the poet as author and the Iliad as rhetorical masterpiece. In this way, it advances our understanding of the rhetorical thought of a leading intellectual and the role of a cultural authority as respected as Homer in one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history.

Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic

Author : Andriana Domouzi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350260703
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic by : Andriana Domouzi

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic written by Andriana Domouzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic, including their reception in later literature and culture. Contributors look at how Hesiod, Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Moschus, Ovid and Valerius Flaccus crafted the first literary concepts concerned with automata and the quest for artificial life, as well as technological intervention improving human life. Parts one and two consider, respectively, archaic Greek, and Hellenistic and Roman, epics. Contributors explore the representations of Pandora in Hesiod, and Homeric automata such as Hephaestus' wheeled tripods, the Phaeacian king Alcinous' golden and silver guard dogs, and even the Trojan Horse. Later examples cover Artificial Intelligence and automation (including Talos) in the Argonautica of Apollonius and Valerius Flaccus, and Pygmalion's ivory woman in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Part three underlines how these concepts benefit from analysis of the ekphrasis device, within which they often feature. These chapters investigate the cyborg potential of the epic hero and the literary implications of ancient technology. Moving into contemporary examples, the final chapters consider the reception of ancient literary Artificial Intelligence in contemporary film and literature, such as the Czech science-fiction epic Starvoyage, or Small Cosmic Odyssey by Jan Kr?esadlo (1995) and the British science-fiction novel The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett (2004).

XVII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies

Author : Gideon R. Kotzé
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628375175
Total Pages : 863 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Book Synopsis XVII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies by : Gideon R. Kotzé

Download or read book XVII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies written by Gideon R. Kotzé and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume from the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) includes the papers given at the XVII Congress of the IOSCS, which was held in Aberdeen in 2019. Essays in the collection fall into five areas of focus: textual history, historical context, syntax and semantics, exegesis and theology, and commentary. Scholars examine a range of Old Testament and New Testament texts. Contributors include Kenneth Atkinson, Bryan Beeckman, Elena Belenkaja, Beatrice Bonanno, Eberhard Bons, Cameron Boyd-Taylor, Ryan Comins, S. Peter Cowe, Claude Cox, Dries De Crom, Paul L. Danove, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Frank Feder, W. Edward Glenny, Roger Good, Robert J. V. Hiebert, Gideon R. Kotzé, Robert Kugler, Nathan LaMontagne, Giulia Leonardi, Ekaterina Matusova, Jean Maurais, Michaël N. van der Meer, Martin Meiser, Douglas C. Mohrmann, Daniel Olariou, Vladimir Olivero, Luke Neubert, Daniel Prokop, Alison Salvesen, Daniela Scialabba, Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto, Martin Tscheu, and Jelle Verburg.

Approaches to Greek Poetry

Author : Marco Ercoles
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110629879
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Approaches to Greek Poetry by : Marco Ercoles

Download or read book Approaches to Greek Poetry written by Marco Ercoles and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades the field of research on ancient Greek scholarship has been the object of a remarkable surge of interest, with the publication of handbooks, reference works, and new editions of texts. This partly unexpected revival is very promising and it continues to enhance and modify both our knowledge of ancient scholarship and the way in which we are accustomed to discuss these texts and tackle the editorial and exegetical challenges they pose. This volume deals with some pivotal aspects of this topic, being the outcome of a three-year project funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) on specific aspects of the critical re-appraisal of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Aeschylus in Greek culture throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages. It tackles issues such as the material form of the transmission of the exegesis from papyri to codices, the examination of hitherto unexplored branches of the manuscript evidence, the discussion of some important scholia, and the role played by the indirect tradition and the assimilation of the exegetical heritage in grammatical and lexicographical works. Some strands of the ancient and medieval scholarship are here re-evaluated afresh by adopting an interdisciplinary methodology which blends modern editorial techniques developed for ‘problematic’ or ‘non-authorial’ medieval texts with current trends in the history of philology and literary criticism. In their diversity of subject matter and approach the papers collected in the volume give intended readers an excellent overview of the topics of the project.

The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus

Author : Wim Nijs
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004685332
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus by : Wim Nijs

Download or read book The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus written by Wim Nijs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papyrological writings of Philodemus of Gadara continue to yield crucial new insights on key aspects of ancient Epicureanism. In fact, they even shed light on the Epicurean paragon of human wisdom and happiness itself: the sage. From the many references to the wise person’s characteristics that can be found scattered throughout Philodemus’ ethics, a uniquely detailed and multifaceted portrait of the Epicurean sage emerges. This is the first book-length study of the Epicurean sage. It explores the different aspects of the sage’s way of life and offers a reconstruction of this Epicurean role model, as envisaged by Philodemus.

Buried by Vesuvius

Author : Kenneth Lapatin
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065920
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Buried by Vesuvius written by Kenneth Lapatin and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first truly comprehensive look at all aspects of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, from its original Roman context to the most recent archaeological investigations. The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world’s earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the Villa dei Papiri was discovered in 1750 and excavated under the auspices of the Neapolitan court. Never fully unearthed, the site yielded spectacular colored marble floors and mosaics, frescoed walls, the largest known ancient collection of bronze and marble statuary, intricately carved ivories, and antiquity’s only surviving library, with over a thousand charred papyrus scrolls. For more than two and a half centuries, the Villa dei Papiri and its contents have served as a wellspring of knowledge for archaeological science, art history, classics, papyrology, and philosophy. Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum offers a sweeping yet in-depth view of all aspects of the site. Presenting the latest research, the essays in this authoritative and richly illustrated volume reveal the story of the Villa dei Papiri's ancient inhabitants and modern explorers, providing readers with a multidimensional understanding of this fascinating site.

Juno's Aeneid

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211167
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Juno's Aeneid written by Joseph Farrell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Arms and a man -- Third ways -- Reading Aeneas.

The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045)

Author : Davide Amendola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110602377
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) written by Davide Amendola and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to have been written in Alexandria, where it probably served as a textbook for the highest level of rhetorical education. Besides shedding new light on its find circumstances and physical aspects, the volume offers a full re-edition and commentary of the two adespota texts contained in it, namely a eulogy of the Lagid monarchy and a historical work consisting of a dialogue between Demades and his prosecutor in the trial of 319 BCE at the court of Pella. The aim of the accompanying introduction is to address the question of the origin, nature and purpose of such fragments and of the collection itself, as well as to show to what extent the papyrus contributes to a better understanding of some of the main historical events of the early Hellenistic period. This book is thus meant to fill a significant gap in Classical scholarship, all the more so as a close investigation of most of the topics dealt with therein has hitherto been lacking.

Oppian's Halieutica

Author : Emily Kneebone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840833
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Oppian's Halieutica written by Emily Kneebone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the sophistication of a once-popular Greek didactic epic on the sea and its fish, addressed to the Roman emperor.

The Orator Demades

Author : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197517846
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Orator Demades written by Sviatoslav Dmitriev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance and collaborator of many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor Alexander III (the Great), and the orator Demosthenes. An overwhelming portion of the available evidence on Demades dates to at least three centuries after his death and, often, much later. Contextualizing the sources within their historical and cultural framework, The Orator Demades delineates how later rhetorical practices and social norms transformed his image to better reflect the educational needs and political realities of the Roman imperial and Byzantine periods. The evolving image of Demades illustrates the role that rhetoric, as the basis of education and edification under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, played in creating an alternate, inauthentic vision of the classical past that continues to dominate modern scholarship and popular culture. As a result, the book raises a general question about the problematic foundations of our knowledge of classical Greece.

Latins in Roman (Byzantine) Histories

Author : Samuel Pablo Müller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499709
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Latins in Roman (Byzantine) Histories written by Samuel Pablo Müller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel P. Müller offers here the first book-length study of the image of Latins in Byzantine historiography of the long twelfth century, arguing that this image is more complex and ambivalent than often claimed.

Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad

Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192870971
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad by : Jonathan L. Ready

Download or read book Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad written by Jonathan L. Ready and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad explains why people care about this foundational epic poem and its characters. It represents the first book-length application to the Iliad of research in communications, literary studies, media studies, and psychology on how readers of a story or viewers of a play, movie, or television show find themselves immersed in the tale and identify with the characters. Immersed recipients get wrapped up in a narrative and the world it depicts and lose track to some degree of their real-world surroundings. Identification occurs when recipients interpret the storyworld from a character's perspective, feel emotions congruent with those of the character, and root for the character to succeed. This volume situates modern research on these experiences in relation to ancient criticism on how audiences react to narratives. It then offers close readings of select episodes and detailed analyses of recurring features to show how the Iliad immerses both ancient and modern recipients and encourages them to identify with its characters. Accessible to students and researchers, to those inside and outside of classical studies, this interdisciplinary project aligns research on the Iliad with contemporary approaches to storyworlds in a range of media. It thereby opens new frontiers in the study of ancient Greek literature and helps investigators of audience engagement from antiquity to the present contextualize and historicize their own work.

Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy

Author : Javier Aoiz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350346551
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy by : Javier Aoiz

Download or read book Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy written by Javier Aoiz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous cliché: the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the Epicureans in political communities. However, this anti-Epicurean literature did not provide considerations of Epicurean political theory or the testimonies about Epicurean lifestyle. The purpose of this book is to shed light on the contribution of Epicurean thought to political life in the ancient world. Incorporating the most up-to-date material, including papyri which have been recovered from Herculaneum, documents of Greek epigraphy and the prosopography of the Roman Epicureans, this volume will bring to the foreground new testimonies surrounding the public activities of the Epicureans. In this way, the reader will learn that Epicurean political theory is, in fact, a crucial ingredient of its philosophy. As a result, this connection creates an ongoing dialogue with the Greek philosophical tradition, revealing the presence of Plato in the Epicurean philosophy.

Epicurean Justice

Author : Jan Maximilian Robitzsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009429469
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Epicurean Justice written by Jan Maximilian Robitzsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language monograph on the theory of justice advanced by the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and his followers.

Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems

Author : Robert Mayhew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192571524
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems written by Robert Mayhew and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric scholia - comments in the margins of the medieval manuscripts of the Homeric epics, mostly coming from lost commentaries on these epics - though the series of studies presented here puts forward a persuasive case that other sources have been overlooked. These studies focus on various aspects of the Homeric Problems and are grouped into three parts. The first deals with preliminary issues: the relationship of this lost work to the Homeric scholarship that came before it, and to Aristotle's comments on Homeric scholarship in his extant Poetics; the evidence concerning the possible titles of this work; and a neglected early edition of the fragments. Following on from this, the second part attempts to expand our knowledge of the Homeric Problems through an examination in context of quotations from (or allusions to) Homer in Aristotle's extant works, and specifically in the History of Animals, the Rhetoric, and Poetics 21, while Part Three consists of four studies on select (and in most cases disregarded) fragments. Collectively the chapters support the conclusion that Aristotle in the Homeric Problems aimed to defend Homer against his critics, but not slavishly and without employing allegorical interpretation; within the context of a renewed interest in Aristotle's lost works, the volume as a whole brings much needed illumination to a virtually unknown ancient work involving not one but two giants of the classical world.