Author: Gregory Lyle WalkerPublisher: Seker Nefer Press
ISBN: 0966237404
Category : Mythology, African
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Shades of Memnon
Author: Gregory Lyle WalkerPublisher: Seker Nefer Press
ISBN: 0966237404
Category : Mythology, African
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Preludes for Memnon
Author: Conrad AikenThe Language of Ruins
Author: Patricia A. RosenmeyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190626321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to "speak" regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, tourists flocked to the colossus of Memnon to hear the miraculous sound, and left behind their marks of devotion (proskynemata): brief acknowledgments of having heard Memnon's cry; longer lists by Roman administrators; and more elaborate elegiac verses by both amateur and professional poets. The inscribed names left behind reveal the presence of emperors and soldiers, provincial governors and businessmen, elite women and military wives, and families with children. While recent studies of imperial literature acknowledge the colossus, few address the inscriptions themselves. This book is the first critical assessment of all the inscriptions considered in their social, cultural, and historical context. The Memnon colossus functioned as a powerful site of engagement with the Greek past, and appealed to a broad segment of society. The inscriptions shed light on contemporary attitudes toward sacred tourism, the role of Egypt in the Greco-Roman imagination, and the cultural legacy of Homeric epic. Memnon is a ghost from the Homeric past anchored in the Egyptian present, and visitors yearned for a "close encounter" that would connect them with that distant past. The inscriptions thus idealize Greece by echoing archaic literature in their verses at the same time as they reflect their own historical horizon. These and other subjects are expertly explored in the book, including a fascinating chapter on the colossus's post-classical life when the statue finds new worshippers among Romantic artists and poets in nineteenth-century Europe.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Homer: The creation of the poems
Author: Irene J. F. de JongPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415145282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro Il Penseroso and Other Poems
Author: John MiltonBook Chat
Author: The Fair Evanthe; a Poem, in Five Cantos: and Other Poems
Author: John PEAT (M.A.)The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
Author: Clark Ashton SmithPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143107380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him “unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith—autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller—simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith’s visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description