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Download or read book Sophron's Mimes written by Sophron and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. H. Hordern provides a text (based on Kassel and Austin's Poetae Comici Graeci text but with significant additions), translation, and detailed commentary on the surviving fragments of Sophron's mimes. The commentary deals with both literary and linguistic questions, but focuses particularly on Sophron's relationship with earlier traditions (for example, iambus) and his influence on later literature (for example, the work of Theocritus). A substantial introduction furnishes an overview of the biographical evidence, and discusses the vexed question of audience and performance, arguing that the mimes were essentially symposiac entertainment rather than stage performances. There is detailed discussion of Sophron's dialect and lexicon, the textual tradition, and his impact on post-classical literature.
Book Synopsis Turning Toward Philosophy by : Jill Gordon
Download or read book Turning Toward Philosophy written by Jill Gordon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life. The picture of philosophical activity emerging from the dialogues, as thus interpreted, is a complex process involving vision, insight, and emotion basic to the human condition rather than a resort to pure reason as an escape from it. Since the literary features of Plato's writing are what draw the reader into philosophy, the book becomes an argument for the union of philosophy and literature--and against their disciplinary bifurcation--in the dialogues. Gordon construes the relationship of Plato's text to its audience as an analogue of Socrates' relationship with his interlocutors in the dialogues, seeing both as fundamentally dialectic. On this insight she builds her detailed analysis of specific literary devices in chapters on dramatic form, character development, irony, and image-making (which includes myth, metaphor, and analogy). In this way Gordon views Plato as not at all the enemy of the poets and image-makers that previous interpreters have depicted. Rather, Gordon concludes that Plato understands the power of words and images quite well. Since they, and not logico-deductive argumentation, are the appropriate means for engaging human beings, he uses them to great effect and with a sensitive understanding of human psychology, wary of their possible corrupting influences but ultimately willing to harness their power for philosophical ends.
Book Synopsis A History of Classical Greek Literature: pt. 1. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce-V. I, pt, II. The dramatic poets-V. 2, pt. 1. The prose writers, from Herodotus to Plato.-V. 2, pt. II. The prose writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle by : John Pentland Mahaffy
Download or read book A History of Classical Greek Literature: pt. 1. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce-V. I, pt, II. The dramatic poets-V. 2, pt. 1. The prose writers, from Herodotus to Plato.-V. 2, pt. II. The prose writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle written by John Pentland Mahaffy and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater by : Graham Ley
Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater written by Graham Ley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles. Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, Graham Ley here discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. In addition to photos of scenes from Greek vases that document theatrical performance, this new edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts, as well as an updated bibliography. An ideal companion to The Complete Greek Tragedies, also published by the University of Chicago Press, Ley’s work is a concise and informative introduction to one of the great periods of world drama. "Anyone faced with Athenian tragedy or comedy for the first time, in or out of the classroom, would do well to start with A Short Introduction to Ancient Greek Theater."—Didaskalia
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by : William Smith
Download or read book Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Environment by : Jeremy F. Hultin
Download or read book The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Environment written by Jeremy F. Hultin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to contextualize early Christian rhetoric about foul language by asking such questions as: Where was foul language encountered? What were the conventional arguments for avoiding (or for using) obscene words? How would the avoidance of such speech have been interpreted by others? A careful examination of the ancient uses of and discourse about foul language illuminates the moral logic implicit in various Jewish and Christian texts (e.g. Sirach, Colossians, Ephesians, the Didache, and the writings of Clement of Alexandria). Although the Christians of the first two centuries were consistently opposed to foul language, they had a variety of reasons for their moral stance, and they held different views about what role speech should play in forming their identity as a "holy people."
Book Synopsis Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4 by : Richard Janko
Download or read book Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4 written by Richard Janko and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition, with Greek text, translation, and scholarly commentary, of Books 3 and 4 of the On Poems by the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (1st century BC). Philodemus's work offers unique insights into ancient literary criticism, from Aristotle to Horace.
Book Synopsis Gerardus Joannes Vossius by : Jan Bloemendal
Download or read book Gerardus Joannes Vossius written by Jan Bloemendal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 2216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new, critical edition (in two-volumes) of Gerardus Joannes Vossius' Latin Poeticae institutiones (1647), with a translation in English, an introduction, annotations and a commentary. In appendices the De artis poeticae natura ac constitutione and De imitatione are published, with a translation.
Download or read book Platonica written by Alice Swift Riginos and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC by : Eric Csapo
Download or read book A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC written by Eric Csapo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on theatre culture in Attica (Rural Dionysia) and the rest of the Greek world. It presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre culture and dramatic production from the first two centuries of theatre history, namely the period c.500 to c.300 BC. The traditional assumption is laid to rest that theatre was an exclusively or primarily Athenian institution, with the inclusion of all sources of information for theatrical performances in twenty-two deme sites and over one hundred and twenty independent Greek (and some non-Greek) cities. All texts are translated and made accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. The volume will be a fundamental work of reference for all classicists and theatre historians interested in ancient theatre and its wider historical contexts.
Book Synopsis pt. I. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce by : John Pentland Mahaffy
Download or read book pt. I. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce written by John Pentland Mahaffy and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Layers of the Text by : Richard Hunter
Download or read book The Layers of the Text written by Richard Hunter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and historical engagement with the literature of the past from the period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic. Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After (Berlin 2008).
Book Synopsis Stesichorus in Context by : P. J. Finglass
Download or read book Stesichorus in Context written by P. J. Finglass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial portions of his poetry has enabled a reassessment of his significance. These essays by leading scholars analyse different aspects of his oeuvre: the relationship between Stesichorus and epic, particularly his response to the Homeric poems; his narrative technique and his handling of erotic themes; and his influence and reception in fifth-century Athens, in Hellenistic scholarship and poetry, in the Renaissance, and in poetry today. The volume as a whole - the first dedicated to this author - amply demonstrates the extraordinary creativity and continuing vitality of the poet from Himera.
Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Theocritus by :
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Theocritus written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
Download or read book Aristotle: Poetics written by Aristotle and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both the Tractatus Coislinianus, which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.
Book Synopsis Insularity, Identity and Epigraphy in the Roman World by : Javier Velaza
Download or read book Insularity, Identity and Epigraphy in the Roman World written by Javier Velaza and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It investigates Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their practical consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire. The contributions examine whether being related to an island was an externally or internally distinctive feature, and whether a tension between insularity and globalisation can be detected in this period. The book also looks at whether there is an insular material culture, an island-based approach to sacredness, or an island-based category of epigraphy.
Book Synopsis Theater Outside Athens by : Kathryn Bosher
Download or read book Theater Outside Athens written by Kathryn Bosher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays on the development of Greek theater in ancient Sicily and South Italy, written by specialists in a range of fields, including literature, archeology and history. These different perspectives give a more complex picture of the development of western Greek theater than has hitherto been available.
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