Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches – serie
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Usable Past
Greek Metahistories
Av K. S. Brown, Yannis Hamilakis
Häftad, 2002
599 kr
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In this volume, K.S. Brown and Yannis Hamilakis bring together scholars of history, archaeology, and anthropology to explore the located and contextual nature of historical narratives. The contributors analyze contested historic rituals, building styles, and traditions-looking through the unique …
Poetry of Homer
Edited with an Introduction by Bruce Heiden
Av S. E. Bassett, Bruce Heiden
Inbunden, 2003
1792 kr
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Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that have made the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to audiences throughout the ages. Combining a sublime poetic sensitivity with thorough scholarship this work offers original analyses of many topics, …
Poetry of Homer
Edited with an Introduction by Bruce Heiden
Av S. E. Bassett, Bruce Heiden
Häftad, 2003
689 kr
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Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that have made the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to audiences throughout the ages. Combining a sublime poetic sensitivity with thorough scholarship this work offers original analyses of many topics, …
Penelopean Poetics
Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey
Inbunden, 2004
1630 kr
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A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning story-teller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud a figurative replication of the process of oral poetic composition itself. …
Penelopean Poetics
Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey
Häftad, 2004
705 kr
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A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning story-teller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud a figurative replication of the process of oral poetic composition itself. …
Homeric Megathemes
War-Homilia-Homecoming
Inbunden, 2004
1549 kr
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In Homeric Megathemes D.N. Maronitis puts forward war, homilia, and homecoming as three themes central to Homer's two epic poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey. Branching out from each of these themes are certain semiotic and structural characteristics that determine, specific to each of the poems, …
Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter
Inbunden, 2007
2279 kr
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Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter is an interpretation of the choices the Greek tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations in word order and prosody. Dr. Nicholas Baechle demonstrates that in their compositional practice the …
Diachronic Dialogues
Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition
Inbunden, 2005
1549 kr
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In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula. This book makes the case for …
Diachronic Dialogues
Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition
Häftad, 2005
689 kr
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In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula. This book makes the case for …
Fighting Words and Feuding Words
Anger and the Homeric Poems
Inbunden, 2005
1792 kr
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Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few scholarly interventions have probed Homer’s language beyond the study of the Iliad’s first word: menis. Yet Homer uses over a dozen words for anger. Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the …
Fighting Words and Feuding Words
Anger and the Homeric Poems
Häftad, 2005
705 kr
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Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few scholarly interventions have probed Homer’s language beyond the study of the Iliad’s first word: menis. Yet Homer uses over a dozen words for anger. Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the …
Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter
Häftad, 2007
900 kr
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Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter is an interpretation of the choices the Greek tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations in word order and prosody. Dr. Nicholas Baechle demonstrates that in their compositional practice the …
When Worlds Elide
Classics, Politics, Culture
Av Karen Bassi, Peter J. Euben
Häftad, 2010
853 kr
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For better or worse, the ancient Greeks retain their cultural, political, and philosophical authority for contemporary educators and actors. Maureen Dowd has talked about the Hellenization of the Bush administration, Thucydides has been used as a template to analyze the Iraqi War and the War on …
Under the Sign of the Shield
Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes
Inbunden, 2009
1549 kr
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Described as "a powerful, brilliant, and original study" when first published, this second edition of Froma Zeitlin's experiment in decoding the Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the light of contemporary theory now updates her explorations of the tragic struggle between Eteocles and Polyneices, …
Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey
Inbunden, 2011
1468 kr
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Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's plot, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal values of Homeric society, an aristocratic culture organized around recognition in the broader senses of …
Archaeology in Situ
Sites, Archaeology, and Communities in Greece
Av Anna Stroulia, Susan Buck Sutton
Häftad, 2010
951 kr
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This volume explores the ways local communities perceive, experience, and interact with archaeological sites in Greece, as well as with the archaeologists and government officials who construct and study such places. In so doing, it reveals another side to sites that have been revered as both …
Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion
Av Menelaos Christopoulos, Marion Meyer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1955 kr
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Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought and behavior and …
Philosopher's Song
The Poets' Influence on Plato
Av Kevin Crotty
Inbunden, 2009
1792 kr
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The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets were …
Philosopher's Song
The Poets' Influence on Plato
Av Kevin Crotty
Häftad, 2010
819 kr
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The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets were …
Greek Heroes in and out of Hades
Inbunden, 2012
1630 kr
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Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, …
Becoming Achilles
Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond
Häftad, 2011
738 kr
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Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond,Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens …
Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy
Av U. S. DHUGA
Inbunden, 2010
1549 kr
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Debate concerning the extent to which the tragic chorus is marginal to the dramatic action has prevailed in discussions of choral identity and, more broadly, Greek tragedy as a whole, since the time of Aristotle. Furthermore, it is supposed that choruses not tied to the role of Athenian …
Chronos on the Threshold
Time, Ritual, and Agency in the Oresteia
Inbunden, 2011
1630 kr
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In Chronos on the Threshold: Time, Ritual, and Agency in the Oresteia Marcel Widzisz combines various anthropological, philological, and narratological perspectives in order to consider afresh both the textual details and structural elements of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Included among the approaches is …
Greek Heroes in and out of Hades
Häftad, 2014
819 kr
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Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, …
Iambic Ideas
Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire
Av Alberto Cavarzere, Antonio Aloni m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
819 kr
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Iambic Ideas, explores the concept of the "iambic" as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings—Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges most clearly is that the "iambic idea" is …
Aglaia
The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna
E-bok, 1997
1255 kr
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In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then …
Classical Moment
Views from Seven Literatures
Av Gail Holst-Warhaft, David R. McCann
E-bok, 1999
1792 kr
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The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starting point, it examines what such "moments" have in common, how they are created, and what effect they …
Song of the Sirens and Other Essays
Av Pietro Pucci
Häftad, 1997
825 kr
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In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters …
Belted Heroes and Bound Women
The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King
Häftad, 1997
906 kr
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This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the "belted hero," and argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological significance. The belted hero fuses king, warrior, charioteer, and athlete into a supreme image of political …
Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece
Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions
Av Claude Calame, Janice Orion m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
1070 kr
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In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious …
