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Author : Serena Bianchetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poikilma written by Serena Bianchetti and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950240
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Homer the Preclassic written by Gregory Nagy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 433 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 : Russell Winslow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666958581
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic written by Russell Winslow and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Necessity and Philosophy in Plato’s Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato’s most read dialogue. The word “necessity” (anagkē) appears hundreds of times in the text in many grammatical forms, about as often as the frequently studied term “good.” Yet, there exists little commentary on the ontological status of necessity. Russell Winslow argues that when the reader analyzes the Republic through the lens of necessity, a novel interpretation emerges. On the one hand, the concept of necessity articulated in the Republic is original, insofar as it includes phenomena not commonly attributed to necessity. Namely, necessity governs not only those motions that do not vary and cannot be otherwise, but also those that wander randomly by erotic desire and by chance. Necessity in the Republic, thus, occasions a rethinking of what this crucial concept might mean for us. On the other hand, interpreting the Republic through the lens of necessity allows a reading of Plato to develop that emphasizes the structures of finitude in human life and the limits of reason. This book argues, therefore, that philosophy remains subtended and limited by necessity in unavoidable ways.
Author : Luca Grillo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023416
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar written by Luca Grillo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and history of Latin Literature. This volume provides both a clear introduction to Caesar as a man of letters and a fresh re-assessment of his literary achievements.
Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134589158
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar's wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga?If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then this a book that no sartorially savvy Classicist should be without. Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z is an alphabetized compendium of styles and accessories that form the well-known classical image: a reference source of stitches, drapery, hairstyles, colours, fabrics and jewellery, and an analysis of the intricate system of social meanings that they comprise.The entries range in length from a few lines to a few pages and cover individual aspects of dress alongside surveys of wider topics and illuminating socio-cultural analysis, drawn from ancient art, literature and archaeology. For those who want to take their reading further, there are references to both primary sources and modern scholarship.This book is be fascinating for anyone delving into it with an interest in style and dress, and an invaluable companion for any classicist.
Author : Himerius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933710
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Man and the Word written by Himerius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully annotated volume offers the first English translation of the orations of Himerius of Athens, a prominent teacher of rhetoric in the fourth century A.D. Man and the Word contains 79 surviving orations and fragments of orations in the grand tradition of imperial Greek rhetoric. The speeches, a rich source on the intellectual life of late antiquity, capture the flavor of student life in Athens, illuminate relations in the educated community, and illustrate the ongoing civic role of the sophist. This volume includes speeches given by Himerius in various cities as he traveled east to join the emperor Julian, customary declamations on imaginary topics, and a noteworthy monody on the death of his son. Extensive introductory notes and annotations place these translations in their literary and historical contexts.
Author : Franco Montanari
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311077237X
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book In the Company of Many Good Poets. Collected Papers of Franco Montanari written by Franco Montanari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of Franco Montanari's "Kleine Schriften" comprises some 66 papers on ancient scholarship, a topic which he decisively helped establishing as an extremely important field of study; they include general surveys of Alexandrian and Pergamene philology, major contributions to ancient Homeric scholarship (with a particular emphasis on Aristarchus), ancient scholarship on Hesiod and Aeschylus, as well as an important number of editions and notes on papyrological scholarly texts. Volume II consists of 42 contributions to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Euripides, the Athenaion Politeia, Lucian, Nonnus, philosophical papyri, the reception of antiquity and portraits of contemporary scholars.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158510504X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Timaeus written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Plato's dialogue concerning speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings. An extensive introduction provides careful insights to the reading of the work, the nature of Platonic dialogue and the cultural background of the Timaeus. Appendices on music, astronomy and geometry further provide guidance to the central thoughts of the dialogue. The glossary provides cross references and discussion for key words in the dialogue, functioning as springboards into the various concepts and ideas that are central to this and other Platonic dialogues and are useful starting points for any classroom discussion or personal thought. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
Author : Timothy Howe
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785703021
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Ancient Historiography on War and Empire written by Timothy Howe and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the tomb cult of Cyrus the Founder in historical narratives of conquest and empire from Herodotus to the Alexander historians; warfare and financial innovation in the age of Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great; the murders of Philip II, his last and seventh wife Kleopatra, and her guardian, Attalos; Alexander the Great’s combat use of eagle symbolism and divination; Plutarch’s juxtaposition of character in the Alexander-Caesar pairing as a commentary on political legitimacy and military prowess, and Roman Imperial historians using historical examples of good and bad rule to make meaningful challenges to current Roman authority. In some cases, the balance shifts more towards the ‘literary’ and in others more towards the ‘historical’, but what all of the essays have in common is both a critical attention to the genre and context of history-writing in the ancient world and its focus on war and empire.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679763864
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Travelling Heroes written by Robin Lane Fox and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights—volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones—and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization.
Author : Sheldon Pollock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967429
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book World Philology written by Sheldon Pollock and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia after decades of neglect. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and historical time periods in which it has been practiced, and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is an essential component of human understanding. Every civilization has developed ways of interpreting the texts that it produces, and differences of philological practice are as instructive as the similarities. We owe our idea of a textual edition for example, to the third-century BCE scholars of the Alexandrian Library. Rabbinical philology created an innovation in hermeneutics by shifting focus from how the Bible commands to what it commands. Philologists in Song China and Tokugawa Japan produced startling insights into the nature of linguistic signs. In the early modern period, new kinds of philology arose in Europe but also among Indian, Chinese, and Japanese commentators, Persian editors, and Ottoman educationalists who began to interpret texts in ways that had little historical precedent. They made judgments about the integrity and consistency of texts, decided how to create critical editions, and determined what it actually means to read. Covering a wide range of cultures—Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Indo-Persian, Japanese, Ottoman, and modern European—World Philology lays the groundwork for a new scholarly discipline.
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music written by Gregory Nagy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.
Author : Kathy Eden
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300111354
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition written by Kathy Eden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book poses an eloquent challenge to the common conception of the hermeneutical tradition as a purely modern German specialty. Kathy Eden traces a continuous tradition of interpretation from Republican Rome to Reformation Europe, arguing that the historical grounding of modern hermeneutics is in the ancient tradition of rhetoric.
