Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004085121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
De Rerum Natura
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004085121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams; Hesiod's Works and days; Musæus' Hero and Leander; Juvenal's fifth satire. Tr. by G. Chapman, with intr. and notes by R. Hooper
Author: HomerusThe Orphic Hymns
Author: Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408864
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns. The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.
The hymns of Homer; the Batrachomyomachia; and two original poetical hymns (The shadow of night) by G. Chapman. With an intr. preface by S.W. Singer
Author: HomerusHomer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams
Author: HomerMaterial World
Author: Guy HedreenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900446137X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Scholars from ancient and early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science explore the interplay between nature, science, and art in influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance.
The Victor Book of the Opera
Author: Victor Talking Machine CompanyPublisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Company
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Victor Book of the Opera
Author: Samuel Holland RousPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Thais
Author: Paul WilstachThais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned"
Author: Paul WilstachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description