Author: James Granville LeggePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Echoes from the Greek Anthology
Author: James Granville LeggePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259687X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up a millennium of snapshots from ancient daily life. Its influence echoes not merely in the classic tradition of the English epigram (Pope, Dryden) but in Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, Virgina Woolf, T. S. Eliot, H.D., and the poets of the First World War. Its variety is almost infinite. Victorious armies, ruined cities, and Olympic champions share space with lovers' quarrels and laments for the untimely dead - but also with jokes and riddles, art appreciation, potted biographies of authors, and scenes from country life and the workplace. This selection of more than 600 epigrams in verse is the first major translation from the Greek Anthology in nearly a century. Each of the Anthology's books of epigrams is represented here, in manuscript order, and with extensive notes on the history and myth that lie behind them.
Echoes from the Classics
Author: Robert Maynard LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology
Author: Norman DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Echoes from Mt. Olympus
Author: Rebecca ChristianPublisher:
ISBN: 9780789152763
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Teaches critical thinking and focuses on the question "Why do myths endure?" with selections by Jane Yolen, Rita Dove, Barbara McBride-Smith, Olivia Coolidge, Bernard Evslin, Margaret Atwood, and more. Literature & Thought Series.
Austerity Measures
Author: Karen Van DyckPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371146
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
A remarkable collection of poetic voices from contemporary Greece, Austerity Measures is a one-of-a-kind window into the creative energy that has arisen from the country's decade of crisis and a glimpse into what it is like to be Greek today. The 2008 debt crisis shook Greece to the core and went on to shake the world. More recently, Greece has become one of the main channels into Europe for refugees from poverty and war. Greece stands at the center of today’s most intractable conflicts, and this situation has led to a truly extraordinary efflorescence of innovative and powerfully moving Greek poetry. Karen Van Dyck’s wide-ranging bilingual anthology—which covers the whole contemporary Greek poetry scene, from literary poets to poets of the spoken word to poets online, and more—offers an unequaled sampling of some of the richest and most exciting poetry of our time.
The Near East
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Eastern question (Balkan)
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Works of Henry Van Dyke
Author: Henry Van DykeThe Emblem in Early Modern Europe
Author: Peter M. DalyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351890832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts, an emblem is a hybrid composed of words and picture. However, as this book demonstrates, understanding the precise and often multiple meaning, intention and message emblems conveyed can prove a remarkably slippery process. In this book, Peter Daly draws upon many years’ research to reflect upon the recent upsurge in scholarly interest in, and rediscovery of, emblems following years of relative neglect. Beginning by considering some of the seldom asked, but important, questions that the study of emblems raises, including the importance of the emblem, the truth value of emblems, and the transmission of knowledge through emblems, the book then moves on to investigate more closely-focussed aspects such as the role of mnemonics, mottoes and visual rhetoric. The volume concludes with a review of some perhaps inadequately considered issues such as the role of Jesuits (who had a role in the publication of about a quarter of all known emblem books), and questions such as how these hybrid constructs were actually read and interpreted. Drawing upon a database containing records of 6,514 books of emblems and imprese, this study suggests new ways for scholars to approach important questions that have not yet been satisfactorily broached in the standard works on emblems.
Author: Henry Van Dyke