Acusilaus Of Argos Rhapsody In Prose

Author : Ilaria Andolfi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311061703X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acusilaus of Argos’ Rhapsody in Prose written by Ilaria Andolfi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a full-scale commentary on the extant fragments of Acusilaus of Argos, commonly regarded as one of the earliest Greek mythographers (VI-V cent. BCE). To encapsulate his contribution to archaic literature, his book on Genealogies is described as a "Rhapsody in Prose", that foregrounds especially the exegetical nature of his book, which rewrote the most ancient past on the basis of the most authoritative epic poems.

Author : Ilaria Andolfi
Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 : 9783110616958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acusilaus of Argos' Rhapsody in Prose written by Ilaria Andolfi and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a full-scale commentary on the extant fragments of Acusilaus of Argos, commonly regarded as one of the earliest Greek mythographers (VI-V cent. BCE). To encapsulate his contribution to archaic literature, his book on Genealogies is de

Author : Ilaria Andolfi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110618605
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acusilaus of Argos’ Rhapsody in Prose written by Ilaria Andolfi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a full-scale commentary on the extant fragments of Acusilaus of Argos, commonly regarded as one of the earliest Greek mythographers (VI-V cent. BCE). To encapsulate his contribution to archaic literature, his book on Genealogies is described as a "Rhapsody in Prose", that foregrounds especially the exegetical nature of his book, which rewrote the most ancient past on the basis of the most authoritative epic poems.

Author : Athanassios Vergados
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192534777
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hesiod's Verbal Craft written by Athanassios Vergados and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel, ground-breaking study aims to define Hesiod's place in early Greek intellectual history by exploring his conception of language and the ways in which it represents reality. Divided into three parts, it addresses a network of issues related to etymology, word-play, and semantics, and examines how these contribute to the development of the argument and the concepts of knowledge and authority in the Theogony and the Works and Days. Part I demonstrates how much we can learn about the poet's craft and his relation to the poetic tradition if we read his etymologies carefully, while Part II takes the discussion of the 'correctness of language' further - this correctness does not amount to a naïvely assumed one-to-one correspondence between signifier and signified. Correct names and correct language are 'true' because they reveal something particular about the concept or entity named, as numerous examples show; more importantly, however, correct language is imitative of reality, in that language becomes more opaque, ambiguous, and indeterminate as we delve deeper into the exploration of the condicio humana and the ambiguities and contradictions that characterize it in the Works and Days. Part III addresses three moments of Hesiodic reception, with individual chapters comparing Hesiod's implicit theory of language and cognition with the more explicit statements found in early mythographers and genealogists, demonstrating the importance of Hesiod's poetry for Plato's etymological project in the Cratylus, and discussing the ways in which some ancient philologists treat Hesiod as one of their own. What emerges is a new and invaluable perspective on a hitherto under-explored chapter in early Greek linguistic thought which ascertains more clearly Hesiod's place in Greek intellectual history as a serious thinker who introduced some of the questions that occupied early Greek philosophy.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 316154451X
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Greek Religion and Mythology written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging work on Greek religion and mythology, Jan N. Bremmer brings together his stimulating and innovative articles, which have all been updated and revised where necessary. In three thematic sections, he analyses central aspects of Greek religion, beginning with the gods and heroes and paying special attention to the unity of the divine nature and the emergence of the category 'hero'. The second section begins with a discussion of the nature of polis religion, continues with various facets, such as seers, secrecy and the soul, and concludes with the influence of the Ancient Near East. The third section studies human sacrifice and offers the most recent analysis of the ideal animal sacrifice, combining literature, epigraphy, iconography, and zooarchaeology. Regarding human sacrifice, it concentrates on the famous cases of Iphigeneia and the werewolves of Mount Lykaion. The fourth and final section investigates key elements of Greek mythology, such as the definition of myth and its relationship to ritual, and ends with a brief history of the study of Greek mythology. The multi-disciplinary approach and rich footnotes make this work a must for anybody interested in Greek religion and mythology.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004501584
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching through Images written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume an international team of early career and more established scholars explores the ways in which didactic poets of Greco-Roman antiquity use imagery, broadly defined, in order to convey their teaching.

Author : Alberto Bernabé Pajares
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658321849
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrating the Beginnings written by Alberto Bernabé Pajares and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is a compilation of studies on narratives of mythical origins in different cultures written by outstanding specialists. It aims to provide a broad view on creation-myths from different times and areas of the world with a particular focus on how these texts contributed to the conception of the past as “universal history”, as a common origin of mankind or as the great opening, the theatrum mundi. On the other hand, the purpose of this book is to study the phenomenon from a typological point of view, analyzing the specific characteristics of this particular type of texts, rather than finding influences between the different cultures in the genesis of these narratives.

Author : Celia Campbell
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299348741
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rival Praises written by Celia Campbell and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2024 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century CE, and here Celia M. Campbell offers a bold new interpretive approach. Reasserting the significance of the ancient hymnic tradition, she argues that the first pentad of Ovid's Metamorphoses draws a programmatic strain of influence from hymns to the gods, in particular conversation--and competition--with the work of the Alexandrian poet Callimachus, a favored source of inspiration to Augustan writers. She suggests that Ovid read Callimachus' six hymns as a self-conscious set--and reading the first five books of the Metamorphoses through Callimachus' hymnic collection allows us to pierce the occasionally opaque and seemingly idiosyncratic mythology Ovid constructs. Through careful, innovative close readings, Campbell illustrates that Callimachus and the hymnic tradition provide a kind of interpretative key to unlocking the dynamic landscape of divine power in Ovid's poetic cosmos.

Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110696207
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Myth written by Lowell Edmunds and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines of study. Aimed at students and scholars in Classics, it will also be of interest to larger audiences in the Humanities.

Author : Joan Pagès
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110751194
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths on the Margins of Homer written by Joan Pagès and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinions, a consequence of the complex nature of the textual tradition but also of the difficulty of defining the nature of this mythographic work itself. This volume offers a study of Mythographus Homericus from different perspectives: the place of the work in the history of scholarship, the state of the text, which has been transmitted by scholia and papyri, its readership, its place in mythography and in Homeric scholarship, its intertextual relationship to other mythographic works or scholiastic corpora and its contribution to the study of myth from a typological perspective.