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Virgil as Orpheus

Author : M. Owen Lee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410336
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Virgil as Orpheus written by M. Owen Lee and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet," and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian approach, this book draws on the new commentaries in English as well as on the work of the great German Virgilians of the past, and is written in the eloquent, accessible, and personal style for which its author has become known. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of the poem, discusses the sound of Virgil's hexameters, and treats each of the four georgics in detail, with special emphasis on the concluding myth of Orpheus. The most baffling of all Latin poems is shown in these pages to be Virgil's gift to Augustus, the most powerful man in the world as the salvational leader of the renewed Roman state, telling him what he must know about nature and about human nature if he is to rule the world well.

Virgil as Orpheus

Author : M. Owen Lee
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427835
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Virgil as Orpheus written by M. Owen Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a popular introduction to Virgil's Georgics for the general reader.

Orpheus

Author : Ann Wroe
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468301810
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Orpheus written by Ann Wroe and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] startlingly original history that traces the obscure origins and tangled relationships of the Orpheus myth from ancient times through today” (Library Journal). For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet, and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work, Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, tracing the man and the power he represents through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and the journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalizing Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalizing the fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death. “Did Orpheus exist? Wroe thinks he did, and still does, and dedicates this lyrical biography to doubters.” —The New Yorker “This insightful and visionary study, treading a perfect line between imagination and scholarship, is as readable and necessary as a fine novel. Ted Hughes, another mythographer, would have loved it.” —The Independent “A book to make readers laugh, sing and weep.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[Orpheus] will leave you dancing.” —New Statesman

Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid

Author : M. Owen Lee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410301
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid written by M. Owen Lee and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1982-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, M. Owen Lee provides a comprehensive narrative summary of Virgil's Aeneid and a personal account of his experience with the epic poem. Noting that Virgil is the writer most Latinists read early, live with, and often come to love late, Lee expresses a clear devotion to the poet's work and relates how it has touched him throughout his life. While most criticism of the Aeneid makes a distinction between what critics say and what an individual may respond to, Lee takes a unique approach by analyzing the epic story from his own point of view. He not only explores the extensive Virgilian tradition, but also looks at the work of other poets, as well as philosophers, artists, composers, and filmmakers in order to better understand the Aeneid. Lee concludes that Virgil's poem, with its unavailing fathers and dutiful sons, its ineffably sad view of a failed humanity and a flawed universe, still touches hearts and, in ways Virgil could not have foreseen, still affects human lives.

Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil

Author : Peter J. Heslin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192524291
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil written by Peter J. Heslin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first book; these passages emerge as strongly intertextual in nature, providing a way for the poet to situate himself with respect to his predecessors, both Greek and Roman. More specifically, myth is also the medium of a sustained polemic with Virgil's Eclogues, published only a few years earlier. Virgil's response can be traced in the Georgics, and subsequently, in his second and third books, Propertius continued to use mythology and its relationship to contemporary events as a vehicle for literary polemic. This volume argues that their competition can be seen as exemplifying a revised model for how the poets within Maecenas' circle interacted and engaged with each other's work - a model based on rivalry rather than ideological adhesion or subversion - while also painting a revealing picture of how Virgil was viewed by a contemporary in the days before his death had canonized his work as an instant classic. In particular, its novel interpretation offers us a new understanding of Propertius, one of the foundational figures in Western love poetry, and how his frequent references to other poets, especially Gallus and Ennius, take on new meanings when interpreted as responses to Virgil's changing career.

The Fourth Georgic of Virgil, Containing an Account of the Treatment of Bees, the Story of Aristaeus and His Bees, the Episode of Orpheus and Eurydice ; and an Article on the Gladiators

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Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Georgic of Virgil, Containing an Account of the Treatment of Bees, the Story of Aristaeus and His Bees, the Episode of Orpheus and Eurydice ; and an Article on the Gladiators written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virgil: Georgics

Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415152471
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Virgil: Georgics written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics

Author : Nicholas Freer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135007053X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics written by Nicholas Freer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil's Georgics, the most neglected of the poet's three major works, is brought to life and infused with fresh meanings in this dynamic collection of new readings. The Georgics is shown to be a rich field of inherited and varied literary forms, actively inviting a wide range of interpretations as well as deep reflection on its place within the tradition of didactic poetry. The essays contained in this volume – contributed by scholars from Australia, Europe and North America – offer new approaches and interpretive methods that greatly enhance our understanding of Virgil's poem. In the process, they unearth an array of literary and philosophical sources which exerted a rich influence on the Georgics but whose impact has hitherto been underestimated in scholarship. A second goal of the volume is to examine how the Georgics – with its profound meditations on humankind, nature, and the socio-political world of its creation – has been (re)interpreted and appropriated by readers and critics from antiquity to the modern era. The volume opens up a number of exciting new research avenues for the study of the reception of the Georgics by highlighting the myriad ways in which the poem has been understood by ancient readers, early modern poets, explorers of the 'New World', and female translators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Orpheus Girl

Author : Brynne Rebele-Henry
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641290757
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Orpheus Girl written by Brynne Rebele-Henry and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut novel, award-winning poet Brynne Rebele-Henry re-imagines the Orpheus myth as a love story between two teenage girls who are sent to conversion therapy after being caught together in an intimate moment. Abandoned by a single mother she never knew, 16-year-old Raya—obsessed with ancient myths—lives with her grandmother in a small conservative Texas town. For years Raya has fought to hide her feelings for her best friend and true love, Sarah. When the two are outed, they are sent to Friendly Saviors: a re-education camp meant to “fix” them and make them heterosexual. Upon arrival, Raya vows to assume the role of Orpheus, to return to the world of the living with her love—and after she, Sarah, and the other teen residents are subjected to abusive and brutal “treatments” by the staff, Raya only becomes more determined to escape. In a haunting voice reminiscent of Sylvia Plath and the contemporary lyricism of David Levithan, Brynne Rebele-Henry weaves a powerful inversion of the Orpheus myth informed by the disturbing real-world truths of conversion therapy. Orpheus Girl is a story of dysfunctional families, trauma, first love, heartbreak, and ultimately, the fierce adolescent resilience that has the power to triumph over darkness and ignorance. CW: There are scenes in this book that depict self-harm, homophobia, transphobia, and violence against LGBTQ characters.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498852
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)

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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 408 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.

Orpheus

Author : Charles Segal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Orpheus written by Charles Segal and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry - the ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty and sorrow and to transform them into song. The first half of the book concentrates on the ancient literary tradition, from the myth's Greek origins through the influential poetic versions of Ovid and Virgil and its treatment by other Latin authors such as Horace and Seneca. Later chapters focus on the continuities of the myth in modern literature, including the poetry of H.D., Rukeyser, Rich, Ashbery, and, especially, Rilke. The author's leitmotif throughout is the relation of poetry to art, love and death, the 'three points of the Orphic triangle'. Through close readings of individual texts, he shows how various versions of the myth oscillate between a poetry of transcendence that asserts its power over the necessities of nature - including the ultimate necessity, death - and a poetry that celebrates its immersion in the stream of life.

AEneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book AEneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Georgics of Virgil

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Georgics of Virgil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil

Author : Virgil
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801841118
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil written by Virgil and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fourth Georgic of Virgil, Containing an Account of the Treatment of Bees, the Story of Aristæus and His Bees, the Episode of Orpheus and Eurydice; and an Article On the Gladiators

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Author : Virgil
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780343660475
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Georgic of Virgil, Containing an Account of the Treatment of Bees, the Story of Aristæus and His Bees, the Episode of Orpheus and Eurydice; and an Article On the Gladiators written by Virgil and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 106 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Fourth Georgic of Virgil, Containing an Account of the Treatment of Bees, the Story of Aristaeus and His Bees, the Episode of Orpheus and Eurydice

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375429047
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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The Georgics of Virgil

Author : L. P. Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521074506
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Georgics of Virgil written by L. P. Wilkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1969-07-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly acclaimed book was, when it was first published in 1969, the first complete book in English devoted to the Georgics of Virgil, of which Mr Wilkinson provides a comprehensive survey. With careful scholarship and shrewd verbal and stylistic analysis combined with sober common sense, he deals with Virgil's early life, the conception of the poem and its composition and structure. He also examines the poem's intellectual ancestry, studies its literary, philosophic, political and agricultural aspects and finally deals with its fortunes from classical times to the present day. Prose translations of quoted passages make this book accessible to readers other than students of classics.