Author: Joseph Farrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191663220
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic explores the liminal status of the Augustan period, with its inherent tensions between a rhetoric based on the idea of res publica restituta and the expression of the need for a radical renewal of the Roman political system. It attempts to examine some of the ways in which the Augustan poets dealt with these and other related issues by discussing the many ways in which individual texts handle the idea of the Roman Republic. Focusing on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, the contributions in this collection look at the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic
Author: Joseph Farrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191663220
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic explores the liminal status of the Augustan period, with its inherent tensions between a rhetoric based on the idea of res publica restituta and the expression of the need for a radical renewal of the Roman political system. It attempts to examine some of the ways in which the Augustan poets dealt with these and other related issues by discussing the many ways in which individual texts handle the idea of the Roman Republic. Focusing on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, the contributions in this collection look at the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191663220
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic explores the liminal status of the Augustan period, with its inherent tensions between a rhetoric based on the idea of res publica restituta and the expression of the need for a radical renewal of the Roman political system. It attempts to examine some of the ways in which the Augustan poets dealt with these and other related issues by discussing the many ways in which individual texts handle the idea of the Roman Republic. Focusing on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, the contributions in this collection look at the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.
Dicite, Pierides
Author: Andreas N. Michalopoulos
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527509540
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This volume presents essays written in honour of Stratis Kyriakidis, Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece. It offers a rich assortment of scholarship on classical literature, ranging from Homeric epic, and the tradition of ecphrasis it spawned in a number of genres, to 17th-century English translations of Virgil’s Aeneid. The collection is divided into two sections, the first on Greek literature, and the second on Latin literature. The sixteen chapters within offer fresh insights and thoughtful readings of a variety of works of classical literature, as well-known as the Iliad and the Aeneid and as exotic as the epigrams of Geminus.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527509540
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This volume presents essays written in honour of Stratis Kyriakidis, Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece. It offers a rich assortment of scholarship on classical literature, ranging from Homeric epic, and the tradition of ecphrasis it spawned in a number of genres, to 17th-century English translations of Virgil’s Aeneid. The collection is divided into two sections, the first on Greek literature, and the second on Latin literature. The sixteen chapters within offer fresh insights and thoughtful readings of a variety of works of classical literature, as well-known as the Iliad and the Aeneid and as exotic as the epigrams of Geminus.
Rumour and Renown
Author: Philip R. Hardie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521620880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521620880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World
Author: Riemer Faber
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487531796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy reach back to the time of Homer's Iliad. During the Hellenistic period, in particular, the Greek understanding of fame became more widely known, and adapted, to accommodate or respond to non-Greek understandings of reputation in society and culture. This collection of essays illustrates the ways in which the characteristics of fame and infamy in the Hellenistic era distinguished themselves and how they were represented in diverse and unique ways throughout the Mediterranean. The means of recording fame and infamy included public art, literature, sculpture, coinage, and inscribed monuments. The ruling elite carefully employed these means throughout the different Hellenistic kingdoms, and these essays demonstrate how they operated in the creation of social, political, and cultural values. The authors examine the cultural means whereby fame and infamy entered social consciousness, and explore the nature and effect of this important and enduring sociological phenomenon.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487531796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy reach back to the time of Homer's Iliad. During the Hellenistic period, in particular, the Greek understanding of fame became more widely known, and adapted, to accommodate or respond to non-Greek understandings of reputation in society and culture. This collection of essays illustrates the ways in which the characteristics of fame and infamy in the Hellenistic era distinguished themselves and how they were represented in diverse and unique ways throughout the Mediterranean. The means of recording fame and infamy included public art, literature, sculpture, coinage, and inscribed monuments. The ruling elite carefully employed these means throughout the different Hellenistic kingdoms, and these essays demonstrate how they operated in the creation of social, political, and cultural values. The authors examine the cultural means whereby fame and infamy entered social consciousness, and explore the nature and effect of this important and enduring sociological phenomenon.
Time in Ancient Stories of Origin
Author: Anke Walter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198843836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia pervade ancient literature at all its stages, and connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive "even now" or "ever since then". Yet, while the standard aetiological formulae remain surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies behind stories of origin undergoes profound changes. By studying a broad range of texts and by closely examining select stories of origin from archaic Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and early Christian literature, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin traces the changing forms of stories of origin and the underlying changing attitudes to time: to the interaction of the time of gods and men, to historical time, to change and continuity, as well as to a time beyond the present one. Walter provides a model of how to analyse the temporal construction of aetia, by combining close attention to detail with a view towards the larger temporal agenda of each work. In the process, new insights are provided both into some of the best-known aetiological works of antiquity (e.g. by Hesiod, Callimachus, Vergil, Ovid) and lesser-known works (e.g. Ephorus, Prudentius, Orosius). This volume shows that aetia do not merely convey factual information about the continuity of the past, but implicate the present in ever new complex messages about time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198843836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia pervade ancient literature at all its stages, and connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive "even now" or "ever since then". Yet, while the standard aetiological formulae remain surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies behind stories of origin undergoes profound changes. By studying a broad range of texts and by closely examining select stories of origin from archaic Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and early Christian literature, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin traces the changing forms of stories of origin and the underlying changing attitudes to time: to the interaction of the time of gods and men, to historical time, to change and continuity, as well as to a time beyond the present one. Walter provides a model of how to analyse the temporal construction of aetia, by combining close attention to detail with a view towards the larger temporal agenda of each work. In the process, new insights are provided both into some of the best-known aetiological works of antiquity (e.g. by Hesiod, Callimachus, Vergil, Ovid) and lesser-known works (e.g. Ephorus, Prudentius, Orosius). This volume shows that aetia do not merely convey factual information about the continuity of the past, but implicate the present in ever new complex messages about time.
Repeat Performances
Author: Laurel Fulkerson
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299307506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The uses and effects of repetition, imitation, and appropriation in Latin epic poetry.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299307506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The uses and effects of repetition, imitation, and appropriation in Latin epic poetry.
Catullus and Roman Comedy
Author: Christopher B. Polt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108839819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108839819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
Author: Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422659
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422659
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Simply Latin - Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471015610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Simply Latin brings you the full Latin text of all fifteen books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. In this classic of Roman literature, Ovid describes a history of time from creation to the deification of Julius Caesar using the metaphor of Greek myth.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471015610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Simply Latin brings you the full Latin text of all fifteen books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. In this classic of Roman literature, Ovid describes a history of time from creation to the deification of Julius Caesar using the metaphor of Greek myth.