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Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book the theme of the mutilation of the corpse in the iliad written by Charles Segal and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Paul Segal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Theme of the Mutilation of the Corpse in the Iliad, by Charles Segal written by Charles Paul Segal and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900432724X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Theme of the Mutilation of the Corpse in the Iliad written by Charles Segal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Alvis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847680153
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil written by John Alvis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a critical perspective more political than that usually adopted by classicists, John Alvis demonstrates in this study that the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid each present a distinct political teaching regarding human ends and the form of civil society most conducive to the realization of those ends. Referring to the mysterious 'plan of Zeus' announced in the opening lines of the Iliad but never explained, Alvis argues that both Homer's Zeus and Virgil's Jupiter guide their heroes to embody principles of natural justice that in turn found political constitutions. The Political Plan of Zeus represents the first comprehensive theory of the meaning of Zeus's providence in both Homeric poems, a new interpretation of the muse in Homer, and the first attempt to compare the Aeneid with Platonic-Aristotelian teaching on the nature of man and the problem of empire. This book will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and scholars of politics, philosophy, and the classics.
Author : Andrew M. McClellan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482627
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Abused Bodies in Roman Epic written by Andrew M. McClellan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.
Author : Kevin Crotty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801429989
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Supplication written by Kevin Crotty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this penetrating and compelling reinterpretation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Kevin Crotty explores the connection between the "poetic" nature of supplication on the one hand, and, on the other, the importance of supplication in the structure and poetics of the two epics. The supplicant's attempt to rouse pity by calling to mind a vivid sense of grief, he says, is important for an understanding of the poems, which invite their audience to contemplate scenes of past grieving. A poetics of supplication, Crotty asserts, leads irresistibly to a poetics of the Homeric epic.
Author : Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134862725
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome written by Donald G. Kyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores * the origins and historical development of the games * who the victims were and why they were chosen * how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses * the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence * the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling, sometimes controversial, perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome, which continue to fascinate us to this day.
Author : William Blake Tyrrell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461641845
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone written by William Blake Tyrrell and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. As they contextualize the play in the dynamics of ancient Athens, the authors discuss the text of the Antigone in light of recent developments in the study of Greek antiquity and tragedy, and they turn to modern Greek rituals of lamentation for suggestive analogies. The result is a compelling book which opens new insights to the text, challenges the validity of old problems, and eases difficulties in its interpretation.
Author : Margo Kitts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521855297
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society written by Margo Kitts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on oath-making narratives in the Iliad, through which it articulates a theory of ritualized violence.
Author : Berch Berberoglu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742535442
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict written by Berch Berberoglu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the origins and development of nationalism and national movements in the twentieth century and provides an analysis of the nature and dynamics of nationalism and ethnic conflict in a variety of national settings. Examining the intricate relationship between class, state, and nation, the book attempts to develop a critical approach to the study of nationalism and ethnonational conflict within the broader context of class relations and class struggles in the age of globalization. The book consists of three parts, made up of seven chapters. Part I examines classical and contemporary conventional and Marxist theories of nationalism. Part II provides a series of empirical comparisons of nationalism and ethnic conflict on a world scale, focusing on the Third World, the advanced capitalist countries, and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. A highlight of this section of the book is a detailed comparative case study of the Palestinian and Kurdish nationalism and national movements. Part III provides a political analysis of the relationship between class, state, and nation, and lays out the class nature of nationalism and the role of the state in ethnonational conflicts that are the political manifestations of deeper class struggles that have been the driving force of nationalism and ethnic conflict in the era of globalization. Berberoglu contends that future studies of nationalism and ethnonational conflict must pay closer attention to the dynamics of class forces that are behind the ideology of nationalism by examining national movements in class terms. For only through a careful class analysis of these forces and their ideological edicts will we be able to clearly understand the nature of nationalism and ethnonational conflicts around the world.
Author : Rafał Matuszewski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110758075
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Being Alone in Antiquity written by Rafał Matuszewski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.
Author : Todd Breyfogle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226074245
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern written by Todd Breyfogle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's History, as well as his edition of Hobbes's Thucydides, David Grene has also had a major impact as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and modern. In this book, distinguished colleagues and former students explore the imaginative force of literature and history in articulating and illuminating the human condition. Ranging as widely as Grene's own interests in Greek and Roman antiquity, in drama, poetry, and the novel, in the art of translation, and in English history, these essays include discussions of the Odyssey and Ulysses, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarmé's English and T. S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. The introduction by Todd Breyfogle sketches for the first time the contours of Grene's own thought. Classicists, political theorists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and students of literature will all find much of value in the individual essays here and in the juxtaposition of their themes. Contributors: Saul Bellow, Seth Benardete, Todd Breyfogle, Amirthanayagam P. David, Wendy Doniger, Mary Douglas, Joseph N. Frank, Victor Gourevitch, Nicholas Grene, W. R. Johnson, Brendan Kennelly, Edwin McClellan, Françoise Meltzer, Stephanie Nelson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Ostwald, Robert B. Pippin, James Redfield, Sandra F. Siegel, Norma Thompson, and David Tracy
Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493981
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad written by Jonathan L. Ready and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters are made to contest through and over simile not only with one another but also with the narrator. Ready investigates the narrator's similes as well. He demonstrates that Homer amplifies the feat of a successful warrior by providing a competitive orientation to sequences of similes used to describe battles. He also offers a new interpretation of Homer's extended similes as a means for the poet to imagine his characters as competitors for his attention. Throughout this study, Ready makes innovative use of approaches from both Homeric studies and narratology that have not yet been applied to the analysis of Homer's similes.
Author : Adriana Cavarero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144571
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Horrorism written by Adriana Cavarero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words like 'terrorism' and 'war' are no longer capable of encompassing the scope of cntemporary violence. With this book, Cavarero effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word, 'horrorism', to capture the experience of violence.
Author : Douglas W. Geyer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810842021
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Fear, Anomaly, and Uncertainty in the Gospel of Mark written by Douglas W. Geyer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Geyer's illuminating analysis of Mark 4:35-6:56 explains why the Gospel ends as it does in the earliest manuscripts-abruptly, at 16:8, with the words, "for they were afraid." This ending, with women fleeing the empty tomb in "trembling and astonishment," has long been considered "problematic," and, in the several attempts to rewrite it, Mark 16 has become a source of unending mischief. Geyer's work draws on a vast literature of fear, anomaly, terror, and dread in the ancient world to demonstrate that this ending is a consistent, overriding theme of Mark's Gospel. In Mark we see and hear the story of Jesus through the eyes and ears of the Roman world. Geyer brings to bear the literature of that world in a way that helps his readers to understand what Mark is doing and how the story that Mark tells continues to touch his readers and hearers ancient and modern (and "postmodern"). Geyer guides the reader through a vast and uncharted primary literature, demonstrating its relevance for New Testament study. In so doing he clearly proposes a fresh and original understanding of Mark that cuts across many of the critical controversies and renews its purpose and usefulness as "good news"--Gospel--for the terrors and uncertainties of our own time.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029780
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema written by Martin M. Winkler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.
Author : Philip Alexander
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194193
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book In the Second Degree written by Philip Alexander and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To better understand the phenomenon of Literature in the Second Degree – in Jewish and Biblical studies often characterized as parabiblical or Rewritten Bible – the current volume applies the theories of Gerard Genette to ancient and medieval literature from various cultures. Literature in the Second Degree realigns earlier (authoritative) texts to the dynamics of developing cultures and their changing cultural memories. In the case of authoritative base texts, Literature in the Second Degree reaffirms their authority by way of interpretative actualization. In the case of non-authoritative base texts it replaces them to effect cultural forgetting. Far from being just literary forgery (pseudepigraphy), Literature in the Second Degree has an important function in the development of the ancient and medieval cultures.
