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Author : George Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Growth of the Homeric Poems written by George Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674244192
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours written by Gregory Nagy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
Author : George Wilkins
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780530513799
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Growth of the Homeric Poems; A Discussion of Their Origin and Authorship written by George Wilkins and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Andrew Ford
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734628
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Homer written by Andrew Ford and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing, he examines these questions in the light of Homeric poetry. Through fresh readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and referring to other early epics as well, Ford deepens our understanding of what poetry was at a time before written texts, before a developed sense of authorship, and before the existence of institutionalized criticism. Placing what is known about Homer's art in the wider context of Homer's world, Ford traces the effects of the oral tradition upon the development of the epic and addresses such issues as the sources of the poet's inspiration and the generic constraints upon epic composition. After exploring Homer's poetic vocabulary and his fictional and mythical representations of the art of singing, Ford reconstructs an idea of poetry much different from that put forth by previous interpreters. Arguing that Homer grounds his project in religious rather than literary or historical terms, he concludes that archaic poetry claims to give a uniquely transparent and immediate rendering of the past. Homer: The Poetry of the Past will be stimulating and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in the traditions of poetry, as well as for students and scholars in the fields of classics, literary theory and literary history, and intellectual history.
Author : William Brockliss
Publisher : Hellenic Studies Series
ISBN 13 : 9780674987357
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment written by William Brockliss and published by Hellenic Studies Series. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Brockliss, responding to George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's analysis of metaphor, explores the Homeric poets' use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences' understanding of abstract concepts. In particular, he considers Homeric images associating flowers with deception, disorder, and death.
Author : George Wilkins
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018879413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Growth of the Homeric Poems written by George Wilkins and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781333802158
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Growth of the Homeric Poems written by George Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Homer
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3985948208
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odyssey - Homer - "Wilson's language is fresh, unpretentious and lean...It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of Circe Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the "complicated" hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson's Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes Homer's music; matching the number of lines in the Greek original, the poem sails along at Homer's swift, smooth pace. A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem's major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this is an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.
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 : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849606902
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Homer And His Age (Annotated Edition) written by Andrew Lang and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to prove that the Homeric Epics, as wholes, and apart from passages gravely suspected in antiquity, present a perfectly harmonious picture of the entire life and civilisation of one single age. The faint variations in the design are not greater than such as mark every moment of culture, for in all there is some movement; in all, cases are modified by circumstances. If our contention be true, it will follow that the poems themselves, as wholes, are the product of a single age, not a mosaic of the work of several changeful centuries. This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer. Contents: Preface Chapter I - The Homeric Age Chapter Ii - Hypotheses As To The Growth Of The Epics Chapter Iii - Hypotheses Of Epic Composition Chapter Iv - Loose Feudalism: The Over-Lord In "Iliad," Books I. And Ii. Chapter V - Agamemnon In The Later "Iliad" Chapter Vi - Archaeology Of The "Iliad". Burial And Cremation Chapter Vii - Homeric Armour Chapter Viii - The Breastplate Chapter Ix - Bronze And Iron Chapter X - The Homeric House Chapter Xi - Notes Of Change In The "Odyssey" Chapter Xii - Linguistic Proofs Of Various Dates Chapter Xiii - The "Doloneia" Chapter Xiv- The Interpolations Of Nestor Chapter Xv - The Comparative Study Of Early Epics Chapter Xvi - Homer And The French Mediaeval Epics Chapter Xvii - Conclusion
Author : Homer
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3985942439
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Iliad And The Odyssey - Homer written by Homer and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey.If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation.This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.--Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.
Author : Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527523799
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs written by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294874
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Homer the Preclassic written by Gregory Nagy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival “Homers” and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined “epic space” of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Homer and His Age written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theorist who believes that the Homeric poems are the growth of four changefulcenturies, must present a definite working hypothesis as to how they escaped fromcertain influences of the late age in which much of them is said to have beencomposed. We must first ask to what manner of audiences did the poets sing, in thealleged four centuries of the evolution of the Epics. Mr. Leaf, as a champion of thetheory of ages of "expansion," answers that "the Iliad and Odyssey are essentially, and above all, Court poems. They were composed to be sung in the palaces of aruling aristocracy ... the poems are aristocratic and courtly, not popular." {Footnote: Companion to the Iliad, pp. 2,8. 1892.} They are not Volkspoesie; they are not ballads."It is now generally recognised that this conception is radically false."These opinions, in which we heartily agree-there never was such athing as a "popular" Epic-were published fourteen years ago. Mr.Leaf, however, would not express them with regard to "our" Iliad andOdyssey, because, in his view, a considerable part of the Iliad, asit stands, was made, not by Court bards in the Achaean courts of Europe, not for an audience of noble warriors and dames, but by wanderingminstrels in the later Ionian colonies of Asia. They did not chant for amilitary aristocracy, but for the enjoyment of town and country folk atpopular festivals. {Footnote: Iliad, vol. i. p. xvi. 1900.} The poemswere begun, indeed, he thinks, for "a wealthy aristocracy livingon the product of their lands," in European Greece; were begun bycontemporary court minstrels, but were continued, vastly expanded, andaltered to taste by wandering singers and reciting rhapsodists, whoamused the holidays of a commercial, expansive, and bustling Ioniandemocracy. {Footnote: Companion to the Iliad, p. II.}We must suppose that, on this theory, the later poets pleased acommercial democracy by keeping up the tone that had delighted an oldland-owning military aristocracy. It is not difficult, however, to admitthis as possible, for the poems continued to be admired in all ages ofGreece and under every form of society. The real question is, would themodern poets be the men to keep up a tone some four or five centuriesold, and to be true, if they were true, to the details of the heroicage? "It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that some part of themost primitive Iliad may have been actually sung by the court minstrelin the palace whose ruins can still be seen in Mycena
Author : G. S. Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521093569
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Homer and the Epic written by G. S. Kirk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shortened, rearranged version of The Songs of Homer, an account of the background and development of the Homeric poems.
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558488
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Poetry as Performance written by Gregory Nagy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very beginnings of literacy to the critical era of textual canonisations in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Professor Nagy applies the comparative evidence of oral poetic traditions, including those that survived in literate societies, such as the Provençal troubadour tradition. It appears that a song cannot be fixed as a final written text so long as the oral poetic tradition in which it was created stays alive. So also with Homeric poetry, it is argued that no single definitive text could evolve until the oral traditions in which the epic was grounded became obsolete. In the time of Aristarchus, the gradual movement from relatively fluid to more rigid stages of Homeric transmission reached a near-final point of textualisation.
Author : Rainer Friedrich
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783515120487
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Postoral Homer written by Rainer Friedrich and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 2019 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Milman Parry's comparative study of Homer and Southslavic oral song had demonstrated the existence of an oral tradition behind and within the Homeric Epic, thus establishing an indisputable link between Homer and oral poetry. Yet its exact nature has remained a moot point. For equally indisputable is the fact of the coexistence of oral and literate features within the Homeric Epic. Thus not behaving as either a straight oral song or as a straight literate text tout court, the Homeric Epic calls into question the prevailing Parryist axiom of the oral Homer. The link between Homer and oral poetry has thus become an open question again: it is, in fact, the New Homeric Question that turns on the roles of orality and literacy in the genesis of the Homeric Epic.To clarify it this book experiments with a third term: postorality. As a postoral poet, having initially been trained as an oral bard absorbing the Hellenic oral tradition, Homer would have acquired literacy in the course of his career as an oral singer. It enabled him to widen, deepen, and refine his epic art, thereby giving rise to an epic as complex and unique, in terms of structure, characterization, and intellectual substance, as the Iliad."--
