Author: Giulio CelottoPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Examines Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife
Amor Belli
Author: Giulio CelottoPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Examines Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife
The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid
Author: Julene Abad Del VecchioPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198895224
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several new readings of the Achilleid in relation to its literary inheritance, its gender dynamics, and its generic tensions. This volume delves beneath the surface of a story that ostensibly deals with a light subject matter—the cross-dressing of a young Achilles on Scyros—to offer an in-depth examination of the poem's relationship to its epic and tragic precursors, and to explore its more serious themes. It is shown to challenge traditional epic narratives, examine Achilles' complex familial relationships and his deviant and transgressive heroism, highlight the tragic character of Thetis, and provide glimpses of the horrors that the cataclysmic Trojan War will beget. By looking into Statius' wide-ranging dialogue with his literary predecessors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Seneca, as well as Statius' previous epic magnum opus, the Thebaid, the multidimensional characterisations of Achilles and other of the poem's key characters, such as Ulysses, Calchas, and Thetis are investigated. Far from simply representing a shameful but essentially humorous cross-dressing episode in Achilles' life that is destined to be forgotten, the Achilleid can be seen to challenge the very fabric of epic by probing the validity and authority of its literary tradition, as well as highlighting its highly innovative and experimental nature.
Arktouros
Author: Glen W. BowersockPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110837625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
The Works of Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, 1701-03
Author: Joseph AddisonThe works of Joseph Addison
Author: Joseph AddisonThe Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Author: Joseph AddisonThe Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703
Author: Joseph AddisonThe Works of Virgil Translated [by Joseph Davidson] Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow. With the Latin Text and Order of Construction in the Opposite Page; and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical Notes, in English, from the Best Commentators Both Ancient and Modern, Beside a Very Great Number of Notes Intirely New. For the Use of Schools as Well as of Private Gentlemen
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Author: VirgilThe Works of Joseph Addison: Poems on several occassions ; Poemata ; Dialogues upon the usefulness of Ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets ; Remarks on several parts of Italy, 1701-03
Author: Joseph AddisonThe Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description