Nonethe– less, there are many insights in these books which make their study imperative for anyone who wishes to understand the ancient Greeks. B. M. W. Knox has an excellent review article discussing all the major pieces of the ...

Author: Charles R. Beye

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN: 9781501745461

Category: History

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Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era. Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Greek literature was intended. He emphasizes those aspects of antiquity which are apt to be most alien to modern-day readers, particularly the oral nature of early poetry and the public and political—and hence manipulative, conformist, and conventional—quality of much of the literature. He also notes the openly imitative practices of early authors and establishes the Homeric epics as the dominant informing feature of subsequent literature.

This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse.

Author: André Lardinois

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691187594

Category: Literary Criticism

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This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.

Author: Charles Rowan Beye

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ISBN: UOM:39076001811434

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 332

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Isolation was a natural state , not something gratefully sought out as in populous urbanized societies . Without political unity there was no linguistic unity and the Greek world spoke principally in dialects from this time until ...

Author: Charles Rowan Beye

Publisher: Anchor

ISBN: UOM:39015008513437

Category: Greek literature

Page: 469

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Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in ...

Author: Froma I. Zeitlin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226979229

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 498

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Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens.

Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece. Ithaca, NY. Saxonhouse, A. 1986. ... Essays by the prominent sociologist on the role of art within the structures of society. Detienne, M. 1996 [1967].

Author: Martin Hose

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781119088615

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 574

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A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways

This book will be important reading for undergraduates, in their first year and above, of ancient Greek literature and culture. All texts in the volume are translated, and no knowledge of ancient Greek literature is assumed.

Author: Tim Whitmarsh

Publisher: Polity

ISBN: 0745627927

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 296

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In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity. Whitmarsh offers new readings of some of the best-known and most influential authors of Greek antiquity, including Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Aristophanes and Plato, as well as introducing many lesser-known figures. Unlike conventional narrative histories, this volume focuses on the profound effects of literature within Greek society. Whitmarsh shows that literature, distributed via a range of social institutions, such as festivals, theatres, symposia and book production, played an important role in the legitimization – and challenging – of ideologies of gender, class and cultural identity. The volume also addresses the legacy of Greek literature: how the Victorian cult of Hellenism and its successors have structured the reception of ancient texts, and how and why the modern West has adopted the Greeks as its ancestors. This book will be important reading for undergraduates, in their first year and above, of ancient Greek literature and culture. All texts in the volume are translated, and no knowledge of ancient Greek literature is assumed.

A SHORTLIST OF OMISSIONS It is striking how few histories of Greek literature take Aesop with any seriousness. ... for reasons we will come to).7 In Charles Rowan Beye's Ancient Greek Literature and Society, there is no index listing ...

Author: Justin Clemens

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9780748678952

Category: Philosophy

Page: 200

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Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death - as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters. Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the 20th century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics. This unsettled, unsettling status has recently induced the philosopher Alain Badiou to characterise psychoanalysis as an 'antiphilosophy', that is, as a practice that issues the strongest possible challenges to thought. Justin Clemens takes up the challenge of this denomination here, by re-examining a series of crucial psychoanalytic themes: addiction, fanaticism, love, slavery and torture. Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Badiou, Agamben and others, Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy offers a radical reconstruction of the operations and import of key psychoanalytic concepts and a renewed sense of the indispensable powers of psychoanalysis for today.

See Schlesinger , Boundaries of Dionysus , pp . 12-13 . 27 On the freedom to recast traditional stories within rather broad limits see ibid . , pp . 13-16 ; the chapter in Beye , Ancient Greek Literature and Society , ' Myth and Tragedy ...

Author: James Redmond

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521332087

Category: Drama

Page: 280

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ANCIENT LITERARY CRITICISM sensationalism would have been shocking to the Greeks. ... Art and literature were for society's sake, and society had the right—and duty—to pass judgment on them. The formal product of this outlook was a ...

Author: H. C. Baldry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107505469

Category: History

Page: 333

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Originally published in 1951, this book was written to provide an introduction to ancient Greek literature for the general reader. All quotations are translated into English and a lack of knowledge regarding the ancient world is taken for granted. In spite of its introductory status, the text is notable for having a self-consciously personal approach. As the author states in the preface, 'My aim was not to achieve completeness or objectivity (which, if it were possible, would be very dull) but merely to write a history of Greek literature as I see it.' This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek literature and literary criticism.