Enough was said earlier to suggest that character and action , in Greek tragedy , are seen through into the centers of personages in literature . The fictitious personage we call Oedipus or Agamemnon or Prometheus or Neoptolemus is in ...
Author: Frederic Will
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9062034470
Category: History
Page: 120
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Rather , Stesichorus ' citharodic narrative points to the simultaneous coexistence of different literary genres and currents in an age of great artistic energy and experimentation . It is one of the exciting qualities of early Greek ...
Author: E. W. Handley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521210429
Category: History
Page: 960
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This volume looks at literature of the Hellenistic period.Everyone comes to help, including the farmers of Attica and representatives from all parts of Greece; thanks to their united efforts ... but there is a literary side to the comedy as well, for the women are seeking revenge on Euripides, ...
Author: Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226143125
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 320
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Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.... the masters of poetry and scholarship arose immediately afterwards . Our sources are sparse , but they ought to be scrutinised again with the help of all the available new evidence . Philitas had been famous all over the Greek world ...
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0815336888
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 396
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.between literature and sculpture, focusing on the modern aesthetic, ethical, and literary reception of the classical statue. Her other research and teaching interests include Modern Greek literature and theories of translation.
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135576684
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 197
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This collection examines major Greek authors from the early 19th century through the present day, spanning from romantic to post-modern authors, poets, and playwrights. The essays focus on intersections between oral and written traditions in nineteenth and twentieth century Greece. Major authors discussed included Solomos, Vizyenos, Papadiamantis, Seferis, and many others.While a large number of writers (as we shall see) staked out fundamental advances in Greek literature in the course of the second and third centuries, in the same period Latin pagan literature appears to have been in a phase of crisis: ...
Author: Franco Montanari
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9783110426342
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 1377
View: 933
This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary genres and phenomena makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity.Greek Literature Gregory Nagy. resist. But the chief motive was probably always quite simply the love of travel and adventure.11' In Ptolemaic and early Imperial times Egypt (that is to say the hinterland of native Egypt as distinct ...
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136066269
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 350
View: 313
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.In entering upon a general survey of Classical Literature , that of Greece first engages the attention , not only as constituting the oldest literature of Europe , but as the source from which Rome derived all her mental culture .
Author: Robert William Browne
Publisher:
ISBN: WISC:89049757636
Category: Classical literature
Page: 542
View: 775
It also encour- ages encounters with current trends in methodology , especially in the realm of literary theory . Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature , by Mary Ebbott , ex- plores the idea of the nothos or ' bastard ...
Author: Mary Ebbott
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739105388
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 142
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In Imagining Illegitimacy, Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child (nothos) is imagined in narratives. By analyzing the imagery connected to illegitimate persons, Ebbott arrives at deep insights on how legitimacy and illegitimacy in Greek culture were deeply connected to the concepts of family, procreation, and citizenry, and how these connections influenced cultural imperatives of determining and controlling legitimacy.Ancient Greek culture in letters, ancient Greek literature, has been taken here in a wide sense, which prioritizes works of what modern writers would call imagination, though the ancient Greeks, innocent of that concept, ...
Author: Frederic Will
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781527555679
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 169
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This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece. Part One considers the major genres of ancient Greek literature: epic, history, drama, satire, lyric, and philosophy. It profiles some of the key issues and authors of each period, characterizes the literature of each period, and sprinkles quotes through the whole. Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture, including language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class structure; gender relations; innovations; trade; and science. Overall, the book will serve as both reference guide and launchpad for ongoing attention to our Hellenic heritage.