Shaggy Crowns

Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191503479
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaggy Crowns written by Nora Goldschmidt and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaggy Crowns is the first book-length study in almost a hundred years of the relationship between Rome's two great epic poems. Quintus Ennius was once the monumental epic poet of Republican Rome, 'the father of Roman poetry'. However, around one hundred and fifty years after his epic Annales first appeared, it was replaced decisively by Virgil's Aeneid, and now survives only in fragments. Looking at the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers the relationship between Rome's two great canonical epics. She focuses on how - in the use of archaism, the presentation of landscape, embedded memories of the Punic Wars, and fragments of exempla - Virgil's poem appropriates and re-writes the myths and memories which Ennius had enshrined in Roman epic. Goldschmidt argues that Virgil was not just a slicker 'new poet', but constructed himself as an older 'archaic poet' of the deepest memories of the Roman past, ultimately competing for the 'shaggy crown' of Ennius.

Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199681295
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaggy Crowns written by Nora Goldschmidt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldschmidt looks at the relationship between Rome's two great epic poems, Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid. Focusing on the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers how Virgil's poem appropriates and re-writes the myths and memories which Ennius had enshrined in Roman epic.

Author : H. Lee Jones
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292745850
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Belize written by H. Lee Jones and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fills a major gap in the bird identification literature . . . A must for birders planning a trip to this friendly patch of Central America.” —The Curious Naturalist With nearly six hundred identified species of birds—and an average of five “new” species discovered annually—Belize is becoming a birding hotspot for amateur and professional birders from around the globe. Thousands of birders visit the country each year to enjoy Belize’s amazing abundance and variety of both temperate and tropical birds in natural habitats that remain largely unspoiled. But until now, despite the growing need for an authoritative identification guide, birders have had to rely on regional field guides that offer only limited information on Belizean birds. Birds of Belize provides the first complete guide to the identification of all currently known species—574 in all. The birds are grouped by families, with an introduction to each family that highlights its uniquely identifying characteristics and behaviors. The species accounts include all the details necessary for field identification: scientific and common names, size, plumage features, thorough voice descriptions, habitat, distribution, and status in Belize. Full color, expertly drawn illustrations by noted bird artist Dana Gardner present male and female, juvenile and adult, and basic and alternate plumages to aid visual identification throughout the year, while 234 range maps show the birds’ distribution and seasonality in Belize. A comprehensive bibliography completes the volume. “A first-class book that will enable users to identify any bird they encounter in Belize.” —Victor Emanuel, President, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours

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Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1D/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessment of Adequacy of Timber Supply and Analysis of Potential Effects of Eliminating the Long-term Timber Sale Contract Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190629630
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Late Latin Literature written by Jaś Elsner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics in Late Antiquity. The Poetics of Late Latin Literature attempts to capture the excitement and vibrancy of the living ancient tradition reinventing itself in a new context in the hands of a series of great Latin writers mainly from the fourth and fifth centuries AD. A series of the most distinguished expert voices in later Latin poetry as well as some of the most exciting new scholars have been specially commissioned to write new papers for this volume.

Author : Tosca A. C. Lynch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119275504
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music written by Tosca A. C. Lynch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN MUSIC A comprehensive guide to music in Classical Antiquity and beyond Drawing on the latest research on the topic, A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music provides a detailed overview of the most important issues raised by the study of ancient Greek and Roman music. An international panel of contributors, including leading experts as well as emerging voices in the field, examine the ancient 'Art of the Muses' from a wide range of methodological, theoretical, and practical perspectives. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book explores the pervasive presence of the performing arts in ancient Greek and Roman culture—ranging from musical mythology to music theory and education, as well as archaeology and the practicalities of performances in private and public contexts. But this Companion also explores the broader roles played by music in the Graeco-Roman world, examining philosophical, psychological, medical and political uses of music in antiquity, and aspects of its cultural heritage in Mediaeval and Modern times. This book debunks common myths about Greek and Roman music, casting light on yet unanswered questions thanks to newly discovered evidence. Each chapter includes a discussion of the tools or methodologies that are most appropriate to address different topics, as well as detailed case studies illustrating their effectiveness. This book Offers new research insights that will contribute to the future developments of the field, outlining new interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the importance of performing arts in the ancient world and its reception in modern culture Traces the history and development of ancient Greek and Roman music, including their Near Eastern roots, following a thematic approach Showcases contributions from a wide range of disciplines and international scholarly traditions Examines the political, social and cultural implications of music in antiquity, including ethnicity, regional identity, gender and ideology Presents original diagrams and transcriptions of ancient scales, rhythms, and extant scores that facilitate access to these vital aspects of ancient music for scholars as well as practicing musicians Written for a broad range of readers including classicists, musicologists, art historians, and philosophers, A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music provides a rich, informative and thought-provoking picture of ancient music in Classical Antiquity and beyond.

Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192561049
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tombs of the Ancient Poets written by Nora Goldschmidt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, the collection makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture.

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009176072
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Augustan Space written by Monica R. Gale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of the construction and representation of space and monumentality in central texts of the Augustan period.

Author : Giacomo Fedeli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009464523
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World written by Giacomo Fedeli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of ancient Greek and Roman literary history as a phenomenon on its own terms.

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Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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