Old Age In Greek And Latin Literature

Author : Thomas M. Falkner
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791400302
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature written by Thomas M. Falkner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the significance of old age in Greek and Latin poetry and dramatic literature, not just in relation to other textual and historical concerns, but as a cultural and intellectual reality of central importance to understanding the works themselves. The book discusses a wide range of authors, from Homer to Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Euripides; from Horace to Vergil, Ovid, and beyond. Classical scholarship on these texts is enriched by a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from such fields as anthropology, social history, literary theory, psychology, and gerontology. The contributions examine the many and complex representations of old age in classical literature: their relation to the social and psychological realities of old age, their connection with the author's own place in the human life course, their metaphorical and symbolic capacity as poetic vehicles for social and ethical values.

Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674496043
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Greek written by Denis Feeney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this bold revision.

Author : Bessie Ellen Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Age Among the Ancient Greeks written by Bessie Ellen Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Karl Braswell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110161243
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Pindar Nemean Nine written by Bruce Karl Braswell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "A Commentary on Pindar, Nemean Nine".

Author : Cicero
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425013783
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Old Age written by Cicero and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an essay on old age and death. Its rational and philosophical subject matter is embellished by beautiful language. This book is a luminous substantiation of Cicero's meticulous emblematic style. It is still popular as Cicero's powerful commentary over a very momentous issue of growing age with explanatory notes is astounding. Timeless!...

Author : Thomas M. Falkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy written by Thomas M. Falkner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking feature of ancient Greek literature is its preoccupation with old age. Yet scholars have been slow to explore the subject - a possible reflection of the ageism that characterizes both ancient Greece and our times. This groundbreaking study by Thomas M. Falkner remedies the oversight by providing the most extensive treatment of old age in Greek literature to date. Focusing on three major genres - epic, lyric, and tragedy - Falkner examines the representation of old age and the elderly in a range of texts, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Sappho's lyrics, and Sophocles' last tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110925990
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce in light of Disability Studies, the social role of old, impotent men in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings, and the scientific discourse of old age and health since the 1500s. The discourse of Old Age proves to have been of central importance throughout the ages, so the critical examination of the issues involved sheds intriguing light on the cultural history from late antiquity to the seventeenth century.

Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134711239
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity written by Paul Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution to both the historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship.

Author : Katharine Haynes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134505574
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel written by Katharine Haynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek novel occupies a special place in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book rejects the hypothesis of a largely female readership, and also sees a problem in ascribing this pattern to the reflection of a blanket improvement in the status of women. Katharine Haynes shows that the strong heroines are best understood not as an undistorted mirror on an improved social reality, but as a type of 'constructed feminine'. The book offers a wealth of fascinating insights into the kaleidoscopic world of male and female in the Greek novel, which will inform and illuminate the reader whatever the text being studied. The related issues of ethnicity and self-definition also explored will be of interest for all those working on ancient fiction or the culture of the Second Sophistic

Author : Karen Cokayne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136000062
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Old Age in Ancient Rome written by Karen Cokayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old age today is a contentious topic. It can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. There is frequent debate over how we value the elderly, and whether ageing is an affliction to be treated or a natural process to be embraced. Karen Cokayne explores how ancient Rome dealt with the physical, intellectual and emotional implications of the ageing process, and asks how the Romans themselves experienced and responded to old age. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary material - written sources, inscriptions, and visual evidence - the study brings into focus universal concerns, including geriatric illness, memory loss and senility; the status and role of the old, sexuality and family relationships. The book's unique emphasis on both the individual and society's responses to ageing makes it a valuable contribution to the study of the social history of Rome.