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Oedipus
Inbunden, 2006
2132 kr
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An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature. Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the …
Oedipus
Häftad, 2006
531 kr
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An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature. Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the …
Stealing Helen
The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Inbunden, 2015
628 kr
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It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern …
Stealing Helen
The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern …
Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece
Av Lowell Edmunds, Robert W. Wallace
Häftad, 2001
495 kr
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Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore be viewed in the context of its performance. In Poetry, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, Lowell Edmunds and …
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry
Häftad, 2003
532 kr
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How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental …
From a Sabine Jar
Reading Horace, Odes 1.9
Häftad, 2009
529 kr
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This book is a detailed study of a single poem -- Horace, Odes 1.9 -- often called 'The Soracte Ode' after the mountain named in its second line. Although more than seventy articles and parts of books have been devoted to this twenty-four line poem since the beginning of the last century, Lowell …
Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Häftad, 1996
820 kr
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While Greek tragedies are often studied as works of literature, they are less frequently examined as products of the social and political environment in which they were created. Rarely, too, are the visual and spatial aspects of these plays given careful consideration. In this detailed and …
Oedipus
E-bok, 2006
571 kr
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An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature. Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the …
Oedipus
E-bok, 2006
571 kr
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An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature. Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the …
Stealing Helen
The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
E-bok, 2015
689 kr
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It''s a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern …
Approaches to Greek Myth
Inbunden, 2014
864 kr
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Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its …
Oedipus
The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural …
Martini, Straight Up
The Classic American Cocktail
Häftad, 2020
430 kr
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Originally published in 1998. From its contested origins in nineteenth-century California; through its popularity among the smart set of the 1930s, world leaders of the 1940s, and the men in the gray flannel suits of the 1950s; to its resurgence among today's retro-hipsters: Lowell Edmunds traces …
Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer
Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas
Inbunden, 2019
1569 kr
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Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer
Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas
E-bok, 2019
1491 kr
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This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. …
Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer
Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas
E-bok, 2019
1491 kr
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This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. …
Greek Myth
Häftad, 2021
303 kr
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This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines …
Greek Myth
E-bok, 2021
360 kr
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This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines …
Greek Myth
E-bok, 2021
368 kr
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This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines …
Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer
Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas
Häftad, 2021
266 kr
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Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry
Inbunden, 2001
637 kr
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How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental …
Approaches to Greek Myth
Häftad, 2014
302 kr
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Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its …
