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Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christiane Reitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110492598
Total Pages : 2760 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Structures of Epic Poetry written by Christiane Reitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 2760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Author : Vassiliki Panoussi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139479091
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Vergil's Aeneid and Greek Tragedy written by Vassiliki Panoussi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental 'intertext' for Vergil's Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi argues that the epic's representation of ritual acts, especially sacrifice, mourning, marriage, and maenadic rites, mobilizes a connection to tragedy. The tragic-ritual model offers a fresh look into the political and cultural function of the Aeneid, expanding our awareness of the poem's scope, particularly in relation to gender, and presenting new readings of celebrated episodes, such as Anchises' games, Amata's maenadic rites, Dido's suicide, and the killing of Turnus. She interprets the Aeneid as a work that reflects the dynamic nature of Augustan ideology, contributing to the redefinition of civic discourse and national identity. In her rich study, readers will find a unique exploration of the complex relationship between Greek tragedy and Vergil's Aeneid and a stimulating discussion of problems of gender, power, and ideology in ancient Rome.
Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221251
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Juno's Aeneid written by Joseph Farrell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell—and what kind of hero Aeneas will be. Farrell shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul of his hero and poem. Her goal is to transform the poem into an Iliad of continuous Trojan persecution instead of an Odyssey of successful homecoming. Farrell discusses how ancient critics considered the flexible Odysseus the model of a good leader but censured the hero of the Iliad, the intransigent Achilles, as a bad one. He describes how the battle over which kind of leader Aeneas will prove to be continues throughout the poem, and explores how this struggle reflects in very different ways on the ethical legitimacy of Rome’s emperor, Caesar Augustus. By reframing the Aeneid in this way, Farrell demonstrates how the purpose of the poem is to confront the reader with an urgent decision between incompatible possibilities and provoke uncertainty about whether the poem is a celebration of Augustus or a melancholy reflection on the discontents of a troubled age.
Author : Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198146889
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Virgil's Aeneid written by Michael Paschalis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paschalis offers a new reading of the whole Aeneid based on the meaning of proper names and using the scene of Laocoon and the Trojan Horse as a model. He sheds fresh light on every episode and book of the epic from the storm of Aeneid 1 to the death of Turnus, and reveals a sustained, pervasive, and deep-going exploitation of the meaning of names.
Author : Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110770482
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature written by Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or rather a complicated kind of closure. It reveals that ritual can bring but also can thwart closure by alluding to new beginnings. A ritual could be a perfect kind of ending but it hardly ever seems to be. In Flavian literature this is even more apparent because of the complicated political background under which these texts were produced. Ancient religious practices in the closing sections of Flavian texts help us create connections between endings and (new) beginnings, order and disorder, binding and loosening, structure and dissolution which reflects the structure of the Empire in Flavian Rome. Overall, this volume offers a new tool for studying literary endings through ritual, which promotes our understanding of Flavian culture and politics as well as creating a new perception of the use of religion and ritual in Flavian literature: instead of giving a sense of closure, this volume argues that ritual is a medium to increase complexity, to expose ritual actors and to project a generic riskiness of ritual actors also onto the epic actors who are acting before and mostly after a ritual scene.
Author : Giuseppe Pezzini
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191055824
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin written by Giuseppe Pezzini and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties. Like the English 'be' (e.g. it's), the Latin forms of esse could undergo phonetic reduction or contraction. This phenomenon is largely unknown since classical texts have undergone a long process of transmission over the centuries, which has altered or deleted its traces. Although they are often neglected by scholars and puzzling to students, the use of contracted forms is shown to be widespread and significant. These forms expose the clitic nature of esse, which also explains other properties of the verb, including its participation in a prosodic simplification with a host ending in -s (sigmatic ecthlipsis), a phenomenon which is also discussed in the volume. After an introduction on methodology, the volume discusses the linguistic significance of such phenomena, focusing in particular on analysis of their behaviour in the plays of the ancient Roman playwright, Terence. Combining traditional scholarship with the use of digital resources, the volume explores the orthographic, phonological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of the verb esse, revealing that cliticization is a key feature of the verb 'to be' in Latin, and that contractions deserve a place within its paradigm.
Author : Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691176124
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative written by Alessandro Barchiesi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important and influential modern studies in this tradition. In this revised and expanded edition, Alessandro Barchiesi advances innovative approaches even as he recuperates significant earlier interpretations, from Servius to G. N. Knauer. Approaching Homeric allusions in the Aeneid as "narrative effects" rather than glimpses of the creative mind of the author at work, Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative demonstrates how these allusions generate hesitations and questions, as well as insights and guidance, and how they participate in the creation of narrative meaning. The book also examines how layers of competing interpretations in Homer are relevant to the Aeneid, revealing again the richness of the Homeric tradition as a component of meaning in the Aeneid. Finally, Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative goes beyond previous studies of the Aeneid by distinguishing between two forms of Homeric intertextuality: reusing a text as an individual model or as a generic matrix. For this edition, a new chapter has been added, and in a new afterword the author puts the book in the context of changes in the study of Latin literature and intertextuality. A masterful work of classical scholarship, Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative also has valuable insights for the wider study of imitation, allusion, intertextuality, epic, and literary theory.
Author : Thomas Biggs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498094
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature written by Thomas Biggs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.
Author : Statius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316154238
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Statius: Silvae Book II written by Statius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of a poem on the unscripted death of a lion in the Colosseum, Book II of Statius' Silvae is largely domestic in theme. It reflects the more private side of Roman culture, its pleasures, houses, gardens, friendships, and personal losses; it concludes with a provocative tribute to the poet Lucan. Despite its variety, the book is carefully constructed as a unit, and this edition, which is suitable for use with advanced students, puts the book into its context in the history of Greek and Roman poetry. The commentary takes into account the important work done on the text of the Silvae in the past two decades as well as the new perspectives brought to bear on Flavian culture by historians and archaeologists. It explores Statius' use of the short poem as a playful engagement with literary tradition that also reflects changing ideas of Roman cultural identity.
Author : Anne Rogerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108232175
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Virgil's Ascanius written by Anne Rogerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil's Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil's heroic epic.
Author : Tim Stover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019964408X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome written by Tim Stover and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new interpretation of Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem. Stover's approach to the text is both formalist and historicist as he seeks not only to elucidate Flaccus' dynamic appropriation of Lucan, but also to associate the Argonautica's formal gestures within a specific socio-political context.
Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107493838
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virgil written by Charles Martindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Author : Helen Lovatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521847421
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Statius and Epic Games written by Helen Lovatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic games are more than just an interlude; they reflect the realities of epic: heroism, power and war. This first major study of the athletic games in Statius' Thebaid Book 6 uses them to produce a new reading of the poem as a whole. It explores each event in Statius' games, discussing intertextual manoeuvres, historical context and poetic positioning, developing a theme from each: audience power, cosmic disruption, national identity, masculinity and the body, games and war, kingship and narrative control. This book uses a close reading of one part of one text to range over ancient literature. It casts light on the tradition of games in ancient epic as a whole, examining the works of Homer, Virgil, Apollonius, Ovid and Lucan. It is essential reading for the student of Statius and of ancient epic and of interest to historians of Roman society with an interest in sport and spectacle.
Author : Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009197630
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12 written by Alessandro Barchiesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).
Author : Pieter Van Den Broek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004685839
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica written by Pieter Van Den Broek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica, an epic from the late first century AD on the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). At first sight, these narratives seem to be loosely ‘embedded’ in the epic, having their own plot and being situated in a different time or place than the main narrative. A closer look reveals, however, that they foreshadow or recall elements that are found elsewhere in the epic. In this way, they serve as ‘mirrors’ of the main narrative. The larger part of this book consists of four detailed case studies.
Author : M. J. Clarke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191534781
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Epic Interactions written by M. J. Clarke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, written by former pupils of his, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context; the Augustan poets and the Aeneid; Statius' Thebaid; Old English and Old Irish epic; Renaissance epic: Tasso and Milton; and the Victorians. The aim of the book is to situate writers of epic in their literary and cultural contexts - the essence of the term 'interaction' in the title. The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold, holistic look at that tradition.
