Author: David Bruce RicksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Homer and Greek Poetry 1888 - 1940
Author: David Bruce RicksThe Shade of Homer
Author: David RicksPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521366632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In exploring the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece - benign shade or looming shadow? - Dr Ricks is tackling a theme that has implications for the study of poetic influence in general. In this 1989 book, he takes the work of Sikelianos, Cavafy and Seferis and subjects a selection of poems to a careful scrutiny. These poems are not imitations of Homer but fresh engagements with Homeric themes, and comparison of the modern versions with the original is found to be illuminating for the poets' methods of composition. Dr Ricks does not lose sight of the larger significance of his subject, and modern poets from outside Greece - Eliot and Pound, in particular - find their way into the discussion. All Greek is translated and the reader has no need to be a specialist in modern or in ancient Greek to find this study absorbing and instructive.
Homer and Hesiod: The Foundations of Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Gilbert MurrayPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
The Iliad and the Odyssey, along with the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work. It concerns the origins of the world (cosmogony) and of the gods (theogony), beginning with Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus and Eros, and shows a special interest in genealogy. The Works and Days is a poem of over 800 lines which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by.
The Complete Works of Homer
Author: HomerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781521543191
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
The Homeric Question - by whom, when, where and under what circumstances were the Iliad and Odyssey composed - continues to be debated. Broadly speaking, modern scholarly opinion falls into two camps. One group holds that most of the Iliad and (according to some) the Odyssey is the work of a single poet of genius. The other considers the Homeric poems to be the crystallization of a process of working and re-working by many contributors, and that "Homer" is best seen as a label for an entire tradition. It is generally accepted that the poems were composed at some point around the late 8th or early 7th centuries BCE. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language which shows a mixture of features of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers believe that the poems were originally transmitted orally.From antiquity until the present day, the influence of the Homeric epics on Western civilization has been great, inspiring many of its most famous works of literature, music, and visual art. The Homeric epics were the greatest influence on ancient Greek culture and education; to Plato, Homer was simply the one who "has taught Greece" - ten Hellada pepaideuken.
The Hymns of Homer
Author: HomerThe Iliad of Homer
Author: HomerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539891840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Tradition says that Homer was blind. First, the bard Demodocus, who appears in the Odyssey to sing episodes of the Trojan War, is blind: the Muse he "took his eyes, but given the mild chant." Then the author of the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo says about himself: "This is a blind, who lives in the rocailleuse Chios." The passage is taken by Thucydides, citing it as a passage where Homer says it same.. The image of "blind bard" is a commonplace of Greek literature. A character of a speech by Dio Chrysostom thus noted that "all these poets are blind, and believe that it would be impossible to become a poet otherwise"; Dion said that poets are transmitted this feature as a kind of disease yeux. In fact, the lyric poet Xenocrite of Locri is deemed to be blind naissance; Achaeus Eretria becomes blind to being stung by bees, symbol of Muses; Stesichorus loses sight because he has spoken ill of Helen of Sparte and Democritus takes his own view to better voir Translater: Alexander Pope was born into a wealthy family. Reached in his childhood Pott's disease, an infection of the intervertebral discs due to tuberculosis, he kept a small size. He was a member of Scriblerus Club. His formative years were studious and conducive to poetic creation. It is generally considered as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, known for his satirical poems and his translation of Homer. It is the English writer most often cited after William Shakespeare and Tennyson in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. His best known work is The Dunciad (The Dunciad), a satirical poem. Membership in Freemasonry, established as certain by some archivists, remains controversial. Its only source the presence of the name "Alex Pope" on the list of members of the "Lodge Held at the Goat" in London. In his essay Alexander Pope and Freemasonry: A Discursive Essay (2003), the historian WJ Williams prefers to speak of association between Pope and the Masons while Cecile Revauger, teacher at the University of Bordeaux III, says that " doubt hovered over the Masonic membership of Swift and Pope but never no evidence could be provided. " There has against any doubt that he was born into a family recusants, was formed in Catholic schools (which were then semi-clandestine, given the religious persecution that persisted in England in his time ), and asked to be assisted by a Catholic priest in his last moments. Besides his fragile health, this religious affiliation has contributed to social isolation, outside a narrow circle of friends and admirers. ."
Homer's Odyssey. Book IX. With a Commentary
Author: HomerIntroduction to the Language and Verse of Homer (1902)
Author: Thomas Day SeymourPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781437042467
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
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The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets
Author: HomerPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010882022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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The Odyssey of Homer. Translated Into English Blank Verse
Author: HomerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780649013593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description