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Author : William Watkiss Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book On the Homeric Design of the Shield of Achilles written by William Watkiss Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121865X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Shield of Achilles written by W. H. Auden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical commentary by Alan Jacobs: a preface to provide historical and publishing context; a longer introduction to orient the reader to the poems themselves; and detailed notes on words or passages in need of clarification for contemporary readers. Jacobs, who has edited two previous critical editions of Auden's poetry, argues that this was the most important single collection of poems Auden published, and also the most coherent of his collections. The two poetic sequences, "Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae," bookend a remarkable set of lyrics, with "The Shield of Achilles" itself at the heart. One of Auden's last long poems, it refers to moment in The Iliad in which Thetis, mother of Achilles, asks Hephaestus to forge a shield for her son. Auden re-imagines how the shield of Achilles would look in the modern age, when the rules of war and the role of the hero have been rewritten. While the volume was widely praised, it is now out of print (although the title poem is included in larger collections of Auden's poetry). A critical edition allows readers to better understand and appreciate one of Auden's most important later poetic works, written in what Jacobs describes as "a poetic idiom that differs quite significantly from what anyone else at the time was doing. . . . it is, in a vital sense, public poetry and it can be enjoyed, understood, and profited from. This edition is meant to make that enjoyment, understanding, and profit easier of access.""--
Author : Kathleen Vail
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999162187
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing the Shield of Achilles written by Kathleen Vail and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the author's reconstruction of the shield of Achilles, using Homer as her guide in the creative process.
Author : Andrew Sprague Becker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis written by Andrew Sprague Becker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis, Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative.
Author : Elizabeth Vandiver
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199542740
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Stand in the Trench, Achilles written by Elizabeth Vandiver and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Author : William C. Scott
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611682290
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Artistry of the Homeric Simile written by William C. Scott and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile
Author : Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108663621
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Homer written by Corinne Ondine Pache and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
Author : S. A. Paipetis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402087845
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Science and Technology in Homeric Epics written by S. A. Paipetis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108594492
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Homer: Iliad Book XVIII written by Homer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. It describes the reaction of the hero Achilles to the death of his closest friend, and his decision to re-enter the conflict even though it means he will lose his own life. The book also includes the forging of the marvellous shield for the hero by the smith-god Hephaestus: the images on the shield are described by the poet in detail, and this description forms the archetypal ecphrasis, influential on many later writers. In an extensive introduction, R. B. Rutherford discusses the themes, style and legacy of the book. The commentary provides line-by-line guidance for readers at all levels, addressing linguistic detail and larger questions of interpretation. A substantial appendix considers the relation between Iliad 18 and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, which has been prominent in much recent discussion.
Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199760276
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction written by Eric H. Cline and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a combination of archaeological data, textual analysis, and ancient documents, this Very Short Introduction to the Trojan War investigates whether or not the war actually took place, whether archaeologists have correctly identified and been excavating the ancient site of Troy, and what has been found there.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Shield of Achilles written by and published by . This book was released on 188? with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Heiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199712425
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Homer's Cosmic Fabrication written by Bruce Heiden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem," since very near the time of its composition the great epic has circulated as a text stabilized in writing. Thus whether or not it is in some sense "oral poetry," the Iliad undoubtedly has features that render it quite satisfactory to readers and reading. But the question of what these features might be has been difficult for modern Homeric scholarship even to frame, much less address, within the research paradigm of "oral poetics." In Homer's Cosmic Fabrication Bruce Heiden delineates a new approach aimed at evaluating what the Iliad furnishes to readers that makes it comprehensible and engaging. His program conceptualizes the act of reading as a flexible repertoire of cognitive functions that a reader might deploy in collaboration with the poem's signs. By positing certain functions hypothetically and applying them to the poem, Heiden's experiments uncover the kind and degree of suitable "reading material" the poem provides. These analyses reveal that the trajectory of events in the Iliad manifests the central agency of one character, Zeus, and that the transmitted articulation of the epic into chapter-like "books" conforms to distinct narrative subtrajectories. The analyses also show, however, that the fixed sequence of "books" functions suitably as a design that cues attention to the major crises in the story, as well as to themes that develop its significance. The transmitted arrangement therefore furnishes an implicit cognitive map that both eases comprehension of the storyline and indicates previously unexplored pathways of interpretation. Through Homer's Cosmic Fabrication enthusiasts of the Iliad will gain enhanced understanding of the epic's poetic design and the philosophical rewards it offers to thoughtful study.
Author : Guy Hedreen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107118255
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece written by Guy Hedreen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.
Author : Friso Lammertse
Publisher : NAI Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Peter Paul Rubens written by Friso Lammertse and published by NAI Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his many facets, his virtuosity and his prodigious output, Peter Paul Rubens is one of the giants in the history of art. "Peter Paul Rubens: The Life of Achilles" sheds light on a relatively unfamiliar aspect of Rubens' enormous body of work, a series of tapestries featuring the Greek hero Achilles. Circa 1630-1635, Rubens painted the designs for these remarkable tapestries, depicting eight decisive moments in the life of Achilles. First, he made eight small sketches in oil, some of the finest of his oeuvre. Then the artist and his studio produced large modelli, painted in oil on panels, that further refined his sketches. The exquisite sketches and modelli led finally to magnifications in full-scale cartoons, which were placed under the loom for the tapestry weavers to work from. For the first time, this volume brings together the multiple works that make up the Achilles series, scattered as they are among various public and private collections throughout the world. Here the process from sketch to tapestry is followed in magnificent color illustrations. Accompanying texts consider the genesis, history and iconography of the series.
Author : John Flaxman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus written by John Flaxman and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is issue in the hope that it may be useful to art students. It includes the entire series of Flaxman's compositions in illustration of the Tragedies of Aeschylus."--Publisher's notice
Author : Andrew Sprague Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The shield of Achilles and the poetics of Homeric description written by Andrew Sprague Becker and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Stanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863376
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Shield of Homer written by Keith Stanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterly interpretation of narrative sequence in the Iliad, Keith Stanley not only sharpens the current debate over the date and creation of the poem, but also challenges the view of this work as primarily a celebration of heroic force. He begins by studying the intricate ring-composition in the verses describing Achilles' shield, then extends this analysis to reveal the Iliad as an elaborate and self-conscious formal whole. In so doing he defends the hypothesis that the poem as we know it is a massive reorganization and expansion of earlier "Homeric" material, written in response to the need for a stable text for repeated performance at the sixth-century Athenian festival for the city's patron goddess. Stanley explores the arrangement of the poem's books, all unified by theme and structure, showing how this allowed for artistically satisfying and practically feasible recitation over a period of three or four days. Taking structural emphasis as a guide to poetic discourse, the author argues that the Iliad is not a poem of "might"--as opposed to the Odyssean celebration of "guile"--but that in advocating social and personal reconciliation the poem offers a profound indictment of a warring heroic society. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
