Author: Heliodorus (of Emesa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romances, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Aethiopica
Author: Heliodorus (of Emesa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romances, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A Study of Heliodorus and His Romance, the Aethiopica
Author: Zoë Athena GlavaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica
Author: Ian RepathPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192511130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European literature (including Shakespeare and Sidney) and art is incalculable. As with all post-classical Greek literature, its popularity dived in the 19th century, thanks to the influence of romanticism. Since the 1980s, however, new generations of readers have rediscovered this extraordinary late-antique tale of adventure, travel, and love. Recent scholars have demonstrated not just the complexity and sophistication of the text's formal aspects, but its daring experiments with the themes of race, gender, and religion. This volume brings together fifteen established experts in the ancient romance from across the world: each explores a passage or section of the text in depth, teasing out its subtleties and illustrating the rewards reaped thanks to slow, patient readings of what was arguably classical antiquity's last classic.
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Koen De,TemmermanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004356312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus.
The Loves of Chærcas and Callirrhoe. Written Originally in Greek, by Chariton of Aphrodisios. Now First Translated Into English ...
Author: CharitonFaces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Efi PapadodimaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695650
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications and effects in particular texts or genres; and some of its technical features and qualities. The particular topics discussed extend to all these three areas of inquiry, by looking into: silence's possible role in the performance of epic and lyric; its impact on the workings of praise-poetry; its distinct deployments in our five complete ancient novels; Aristophanic, comic and otherwise, silences; the vocabulary of the unspeakable in tragedy; the connections of tragic silence to power, authority, resistance, and motivation; female tragic silences and their transcendence, against the background of male oppression or domination; famous tragic silences as expressions of the ritualized isolation of the individual from both human and divine society. The emerging insights are valuable for the broader interpretation of the relevant texts, as well as for the fuller understanding of central values and practices of the society that created them.
A New History of Ethiopia
Author: Hiob LudolfBetween Bombs and Good Intentions
Author: Rainer BaudendistelPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782388729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted again the precarious situation aid agencies find themselves in, caught as they are between the firing lines of the hostile parties, as they are trying to alleviate the plight of the civilian populations. This book offers an illuminating case study from a previous conflict, the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36, and of the humanitarian operation of the Red Cross during this period. Based on fresh material from Red Cross and Italian military archives, the author examines highly controversial subjects such as the Italian bombings of Red Cross field hospitals, the treatment of Prisoners of War by the two belligerents; and the effects of Fascist Italy’s massive use of poison gas against the Ethiopians. He shows how Mussolini and his ruthless regime, throughout the seven-month war, manipulated the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – the lead organization of the Red Cross in times of war, helped by the surprising political naïveté of its board. During this war the ICRC redefined its role in a debate, which is fascinating not least because of its relevance to current events, about the nature of humanitarian action. The organization decided to concern itself exclusively with matters falling under the Geneva Conventions and to give priority to bringing relief over expressing protest. It was a decision that should have far-reaching consequences, particularly for the period of World War II and the fate of Jews in Nazi concentration camps.
Haile Selassie, Western Education, and Political Revolution in Ethiopia
Author: Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Practitioners of the Divine
Author: Beate DignasPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"What is a Greek priest?" The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal concepts and their transformation, and the role of manteis. Each chapter looks at how priests and religious officials used a potential authority to promote themselves and their posts, how they played a role in conserving, shaping and reviving cult activity, how they acted behind the curtain of polis institutions, and how they performed as mediators between men and gods. It becomes clear that Greek priests had many faces, and that the factors that determined their roles and activities are political as well as historical, religious as well as economic, idealistic as well as pragmatic, personal as well as communal.