Martin Classical Lectures – serie
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21 produkter
Economy of the Unlost
(Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2002
384 kr
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The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts …
Christianizing Egypt
Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2017
460 kr
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How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds …
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule
Av Josiah Ober
Häftad, 2001
716 kr
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How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about …
Art of Bacchylides
Inbunden, 1985
308 kr
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Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their …
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Häftad, 2002
578 kr
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Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming …
Sound, Sense, and Rhythm
Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry
Häftad, 2004
578 kr
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This book concerns the way we read--or rather, imagine we are listening to--ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Through clear and penetrating analysis Mark Edwards shows how an understanding of the effects of word order and meter is vital for appreciating the meaning of classical poetry, composed for …
Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass
A Study in Transmission and Reception
Inbunden, 2008
972 kr
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This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis …
Recognizing Persius
Inbunden, 2009
785 kr
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Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively personal book, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out the …
Aesopic Conversations
Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose
Av Leslie Kurke
Häftad, 2010
578 kr
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Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, …
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2010
817 kr
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Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. …
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
Inbunden, 2011
696 kr
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How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the …
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
Häftad, 2012
351 kr
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Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. …
Euripides and the Politics of Form
Inbunden, 2015
549 kr
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How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a …
Transformation of Athens
Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece
Inbunden, 2018
544 kr
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How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very …
Euripides and the Politics of Form
Häftad, 2020
411 kr
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How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a …
Juno's Aeneid
A Battle for Heroic Identity
Inbunden, 2021
578 kr
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A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. …
Christianizing Egypt
Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2021
315 kr
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How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds …
Juno's Aeneid
A Battle for Heroic Identity
Häftad, 2023
372 kr
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A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. …
Helen of Troy in Hollywood
Inbunden, 2023
366 kr
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How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the …
Helen of Troy in Hollywood
Häftad, 2026
328 kr
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How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the …
Poetic Interplay
Catullus and Horace
Inbunden, 2006
741 kr
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The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, …
