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76 produkter
Plato's Symposium
E-bok, 2004
525 kr
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Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a …
Plato's Symposium
E-bok, 2004
525 kr
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Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a …
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
Häftad, 2006
824 kr
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The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek …
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Constructions and Reconstructions
Häftad, 2008
916 kr
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The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the …
Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis)
Av Plutarch, Richard Hunter m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem rather alien to those brought up in the …
Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry
Av Marco Fantuzzi, Richard Hunter
Häftad, 2012
1066 kr
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Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC were concerned with the need both to mark their continuity with the classical past and to demonstrate their independence from it. In this revised and expanded translation of Muse e modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto, …
Critical Moments in Classical Literature
Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses
Inbunden, 2009
691 kr
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Through a series of innovative critical readings Richard Hunter builds a picture of how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society. He pays particular attention to the interplay of criticism and creativity by not treating criticism in isolation from the …
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
Inbunden, 1996
1085 kr
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The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek …
The Shadow of Callimachus
Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome
Häftad, 2006
617 kr
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Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the poetry of the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries stands at …
Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry
Av Marco Fantuzzi, Richard Hunter
Inbunden, 2005
2472 kr
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Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC were concerned with the need both to mark their continuity with the classical past and to demonstrate their independence from it. In this revised and expanded translation of Muse e modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto, …
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Constructions and Reconstructions
Inbunden, 2005
2153 kr
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The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the …
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism
Av Richard Hunter, Ian Rutherford
Inbunden, 2009
1179 kr
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Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the …
Homer: Odyssey Book XI
Av Richard Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle
Häftad, 2026
435 kr
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Book XI of the Odyssey, Odysseus' extraordinary account of how he met the ghosts of the past in the Underworld, occupies a central place in Homer's epic and was to become a foundational work of Western literature. Odysseus learns of his future from the blind seer Teiresias and of events on Ithaca …
Homer: Odyssey Book XI
Av Richard Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle
Inbunden, 2026
1358 kr
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Book XI of the Odyssey, Odysseus' extraordinary account of how he met the ghosts of the past in the Underworld, occupies a central place in Homer's epic and was to become a foundational work of Western literature. Odysseus learns of his future from the blind seer Teiresias and of events on Ithaca …
Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis)
Av Plutarch, Richard Hunter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1475 kr
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Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem rather alien to those brought up in the …
Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature
The Silent Stream
Inbunden, 2012
1610 kr
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Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as rewritings of the Apology and re-imaginings of Socrates' defence, Plato's high style and the …
Hesiodic Voices
Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days
Inbunden, 2014
1872 kr
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This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying not …
Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book IV
Av Apollonius of Rhodes, Richard Hunter
Inbunden, 2015
1358 kr
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Apollonius' epic, the Argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of Hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous Greek literature, but was enormously influential on Latin epic, especially Virgil's Aeneid. Book IV tells the story of the Argonauts' return to Greece with the Golden …
Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture
Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric
Inbunden, 2017
1291 kr
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This book offers a series of studies of the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama. Special attention is paid to the range of phenomena which fall under the heading 'reperformance', to how poets use both the reality and the 'imaginary' of reperformance to …
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism
Av Richard Hunter, Ian Rutherford
Häftad, 2011
842 kr
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Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the …
Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature
The Silent Stream
Häftad, 2015
574 kr
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Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as rewritings of the Apology and re-imaginings of Socrates' defence, Plato's high style and the …
Latin Literature and its Transmission
Av Richard Hunter, S. P. Oakley
Häftad, 2020
767 kr
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This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, …
Hesiodic Voices
Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days
Häftad, 2017
729 kr
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This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying not …
Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book IV
Av Apollonius of Rhodes, Richard Hunter
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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Apollonius' epic, the Argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of Hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous Greek literature, but was enormously influential on Latin epic, especially Virgil's Aeneid. Book IV tells the story of the Argonauts' return to Greece with the Golden …
Hesiodic Voices
Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod''s Works and Days
E-bok, 2014
697 kr
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This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod''s Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of ''didactic literature''. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying …
Hesiodic Voices
Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod''s Works and Days
E-bok, 2014
697 kr
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This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod''s Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of ''didactic literature''. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying …
Euripides: Cyclops
Av Rebecca Laemmle, Richard Hunter
E-bok, 2020
444 kr
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Euripides'' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer''s Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not just about satyr-drama, but also about the …
Euripides: Cyclops
Av Richard Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle
Häftad, 2020
468 kr
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Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not just about satyr-drama, but also about the …
The Measure of Homer
The Ancient Reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Inbunden, 2018
935 kr
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Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the geographical and educational breadth of Homeric …
