Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004351159
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Book Synopsis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI by : Henri J.W. Wijsman

Download or read book Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI written by Henri J.W. Wijsman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of an increased interest over the last ten years in the 1st century AD Roman poet Valerius Flaccus, involving the production of several commentaries, part of his work Argonautica was still lacking a modern commentary. This book gives a full philological and literary commentary of the turbulent book VI of the Argonautica. The Silver Latin author's peculiar phraseology and choice of words is highlighted. Where possible the poem is interpreted in the context of the other Silver Latin epic poets.

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book I

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405676
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Book Synopsis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book I by : Aad Kleywegt

Download or read book Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book I written by Aad Kleywegt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philological and literary commentary on the first book of the Argonautica, a Latin epic written by Valerius Flaccus in the first century A.D.

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198767190
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Book Synopsis Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7 by : P. J. Davis

Download or read book Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7 written by P. J. Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best known of ancient Greek myths and has captivated people for over two and a half thousand years. Focusing on Medea's attempts to resist her love for Jason, Book 7 of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica presents one of the most attractive and engaging episodes in all of Greco-Roman epic: the key moment when Jason and Medea fall in love and when Jason, with Medea's help, yokes the king's fire-breathing bulls, sows the dragon's teeth, and compels the earthborn men to destroy themselves. Although versions of the story of the Argo's journey from Greece to the Black Sea had been told by many earlier poets, this Roman account of the myth differs from its predecessors in important ways. First, Valerius presents the Argo as the first ship and the voyage as a decisive turning point in human history: the Argo's breaking down of natural barriers will lead to interchange between human communities and to a sequence of empires, culminating of course in that of the Romans. Second, Valerius constantly foreshadows other parts of Medea's myth, most notably the explosion of violence in Corinth well known to Valerius' audience and to us from the Medea tragedies of Euripides and Seneca. Third, and most important, Valerius concentrates attention on the inner workings of Medea's mind as she fights against the combined efforts of two goddesses who ultimately compel her to betray her father and help Jason to win the golden fleece. This new edition of Argonautica 7 offers the first detailed commentary on this book of the poem in English, as well as a substantial introduction intended to be as accessible to as many readers as possible, a new Latin text, and a facing-page prose translation. The commentary is primarily literary, emphasizing Valerius' engagement with the epic tradition and with earlier treatments of the Medea story, as well as the elegance and power of his poetry, and is intended to be of use to scholars and students at all levels of study

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book V

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ISBN 13 : 9789004105065
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Book Synopsis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book V by : Henri J. W. Wijsman

Download or read book Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book V written by Henri J. W. Wijsman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a commentary on Book V of the "Argonautica" of Valerius Flaccus, paying attention to linguistic, philological and literary aspects. Line by line the words and phrases chosen, sources used and literary models are treated. The last commentary on all eight books of the "Argonautica" appeared a century ago (Langen 1896), so there is ample room to apply new views in Latin linguistics and concepts of literature. A small number of textual variants is supported.

Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019964408X
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Book Synopsis Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome by : Tim Stover

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.

The Voyage of the Argo

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801861789
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Book Synopsis The Voyage of the Argo by : Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Download or read book The Voyage of the Argo written by Gaius Valerius Flaccus and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own interpretation of the story in the first century of the Christian era, but he died before completing it. With The Voyage of the "Argo," the acclaimed poet and translator David Slavitt recovers for modern readers the only surviving work of this little-known writer. The result is an engaging rendition of Jason's adventures, of particular interest when compared to the Greek version of the story. While Apollonius' tale offers a subtle psychological study of Medea, Valerius Flaccus' achievement is to present Jason as a more complete and compelling heroic figure. Slavitt, for one, enjoyed the rediscovery immensely—and he invites his readers to do the same. "I am content to let my rendition into English speak for Valerius, but for those whom I imagine standing in an aisle of a library or bookstore, trying to decide, I can offer some reassurance. This piece is playful, unpredictable, oddly contrarian, sometimes almost mannerist. Valerius' description in book 8 of Medea's putting the serpent to sleep so Jason can filch the fleece involves a gesture no other Latin poet I know would have thought to try—a brief moment in Medea's head when she allows herself to feel sorry for the snake . . . It is this kind of droll surprise that drew me to undertake the translation of a work that is not, I freely confess, well known."—David Slavitt

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316381048
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Download or read book Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III written by Valerius Flaccus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is one of the most significant surviving works of Flavian epic, which has recently become much more popular as a field of study and teaching in Latin literature. This is the first commentary in English directly tailored to the needs of graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It provides an introduction to the major themes of the poem and the structure and content of Book III in particular which can function as an overview of the key features of Flavian epic. The detailed commentary on Book III discusses linguistic issues, intertextual and mythical allusions and thematic strands. The book consists of two major episodes in the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts which can be read together or independently of each other.

Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004278656
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus by : Mark Heerink

Download or read book Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus written by Mark Heerink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights. Topics covered include textual transmission, language, poetic techniques, main themes, characters, relationship to intertexts and reception. This will be a standard point of departure for anyone interested in Valerius Flaccus or Flavian epic more generally. Contributors are: Antony Augoustakis, Michael Barich, Neil Bernstein, Emma Buckley, Cristiano Castelletti, James Clauss, Robert Cowan, Peter Davis, Alain Deremetz, Attila Ferenczi, Marco Fucecchi, Randall Ganiban, Mark Heerink, Alison Keith, Helen Lovatt, Gesine Manuwald, Ruth Parkes, Tim Stover, Ruth Taylor-Briggs, and Andrew Zissos.

Valerius Flaccus

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Total Pages : 458 pages
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The Colossus of Rhodes

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781596430822
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book The Colossus of Rhodes written by Caroline Lawrence and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 80 A.D., ten-year-old Roman sleuth Flavia and her friends sail from Corinth to Rhodes to try to stop a mysterious man who is kidnapping children and selling them into slavery.

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037328
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Book Synopsis Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III by : Valerius Flaccus

Download or read book Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III written by Valerius Flaccus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first commentary in English on a book of this Flavian epic tailored to the needs of graduate and undergraduate students.

Echoing Hylas

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299305449
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Echoing Hylas by : Mark Heerink

Download or read book Echoing Hylas written by Mark Heerink and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a stopover of the Argo in Mysia, the boy Hylas sets out to fetch water for his companion Hercules. Wandering into the woods, he arrives at a secluded spring, inhabited by nymphs who fall in love with him and pull him into the water. Mad with worry, Hercules stays in Mysia to look for the boy, but he will never find him again . . . In Echoing Hylas, Mark Heerink argues that the story of Hylas—a famous episode of the Argonauts' voyage—was used by poets throughout classical antiquity to reflect symbolically on the position of their poetry in the literary tradition. Certain elements of the story, including the characters of Hylas and Hercules themselves, functioned as metaphors of the art of poetry. In the Hellenistic age, for example, the poet Theocritus employed Hylas as an emblem of his innovative bucolic verse, contrasting the boy with Hercules, who symbolized an older, heroic-epic tradition. The Roman poet Propertius further developed and transformed Theocritus's metapoetical allegory by turning Heracles into an elegiac lover in pursuit of an unattainable object of affection. In this way, the myth of Hylas became the subject of a dialogue among poets across time, from the Hellenistic age to the Flavian era. Each poet, Heerink demonstrates, used elements of the myth to claim his own place in a developing literary tradition. With this innovative diachronic approach, Heerink opens a new dimension of ancient metapoetics and offers many insights into the works of Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus, Virgil, Ovid, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius.

Virgo to Virago

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443851094
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Virgo to Virago written by Kirsty Corrigan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infamous and formidable mythological figure of Medea has deservedly held an enduring appeal throughout the ages. This has perhaps never been more true than in the Silver Age of Latin literature, when the taste for rhetorical excess and the macabre made the heroine, and especially her notorious acts of witchcraft and the slaughter of her own children in revenge for her husband’s infidelity, a particularly suitable and attractive topic for literary treatment. By examining the portrayal of this remarkable figure in the works of Ovid, Seneca and Valerius Flaccus, Virgo to Virago: Medea in the Silver Age offers a comprehensive study of the representation of the heroine, not only in this specific period, but in the entire Roman era, since these three authors provide the only substantial accounts of this figure to have survived in Classical Latin. Through close analysis of the texts, Virgo to Virago explores the characterisation of Medea, whose mythical life was inevitably overshadowed by her legendary behaviour, considering whether these accounts merely accord with the particular traits of the Silver Age, or whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts. The book simultaneously examines how the Latin authors compare with, and differ from, both one another and their extant Greek and Roman predecessors, concluding with a discussion of the significance of any comparisons to be drawn between these portrayals of the Roman Medea.

The Epic Successors of Virgil

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521425629
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book The Epic Successors of Virgil written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.

Letters to Friends

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674058364
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book Letters to Friends written by Bartolommeo Fonte and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl.

The Philosophizing Muse

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869856
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophizing Muse written by David Konstan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PIERIDES III, Editors: Myrto Garani and David Konstan Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and commonplaces have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of the Greek philosophical influence, and in particular the impact of Pythagorean, Empedoclean, Epicurean and Stoic doctrines, on Latin verse has never been fully in...

Abused Bodies in Roman Epic

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482627
Total Pages : 323 pages
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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.