Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 — 692 p. — ISBN10: 1405105240; ISBN13: 978-1405105248. "A Companion to Ancient Epic" presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. It offers a multi-disciplinary discussion of both longstanding ideas and newer perspectives. A "Companion" to the Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic...
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 912 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-974354-4. In recent decades literary approaches to drama have multiplied: new historical, intertextual, political, performative and metatheatrical, socio-linguistic, gender-driven, transgenre-driven. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 576 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-3679-2 Offering unparalleled scope, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature in 30 newly commissioned essays explores the social and intellectual contexts of literature production in the Hellenistic period, and examines the relationship between Hellenistic and earlier literature....
Brill Academic Publishers, 1996. - 877 p. ISBN: 9004096302 The subject of this volume is that group works of extended prose narrative fiction which bears many similarities to the modern novel and which appeared in the later classical periods in Greece and Rome. The ancient novel has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent years not only among students of literature, but also among...
New York: Alfred Knopf,.2005.—444 p.—ISBN: 0-375-41120-8 Without such papyri, we would have no Greek texts at all. By the middle of the fifth century bc, “all civilised people” wrote on papyrus scrolls. However, had papyrus not existed, we might have had even more Greek literature to read than we actually do. Some of the earliest whispers of Greek verse are preserved on pots,...
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2012. — 640 p. — (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies). — ISBN: 9004214321 In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term epyllion was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration...
Oxf.: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 515 p. This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly presents the text of Iliad VIII next to an apparatus referring to the traditional units being employed,...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 616 p. This book consists of seventeen essays by a team of international scholars exploring aspects of the reception of literature from the earliest surviving Greek poetry to the demise of classical literature at the end of the Roman empire. Deploying fresh insights to map out lively and provocative surveys, the contributors examine all genres...
Zone Books, New York, 1990. - 520 p. Preface to Volume. Preface to Volume. The Historical Moment of Tragedy in Greece: Some of the. Social and Psychological Conditions. Tensions and Ambiguities in Greek Tragedy. Intimations of the Will in Greek Tragedy. Oedipus Without the Complex. Ambiguity and Reversal: On the EnigmatiC Structure of Oedipus Rex. Hunting and Sacrifice in...
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press,.2005.—257 p.—ISBN-0–8061–3663–4 The interpretation of women’s literature in Greek and Roman antiquity is a notoriously challenging enterprise. To be sure, the relative obscurity of historical knowledge surrounding Greco-Roman texts in general invites a higher degree of speculation than modern literary texts generally do. Yet the texts of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 704 p. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the...
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College, 1986. — IX, 101 p. A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984: A discussion of historicity of the Trojan war. The participants: M. Corfmann, H. G. Gueterbock, E. Vermeule, C. Watkins and other.
Madrid, 1987. — 102 p. J.-P. Vernant: El momento historico de la tragedia en Grecia: algunos condicionnantes sociales y psicologicos Tensiones y ambiguedades en la tragedia griega Esbozos de la voluntad en la tradegia griega "Edipo" sin complejo Ambiguedad e inversion. Sobre la estructura enigmatica del Edipo Rey P.Vidal-Nquet: Caza y sacrificio en la Oresitada de Esquilo El...
Routledge, 2000. — 253 p. In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including:* a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella* a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis*...
Scholars Press, 1988. — 155 p. The Chreia. Household Codes. The Ancient Jewish Synagogue Homily. The Diatribe. Ancient Greek Letters. Greco-Roman Biography. The Greek Novel.
Here you can find an interesting information about the development of literary movement in Greek and Roman Literature. In the first part of this presentation you'll find out about the Classical and Pre-Classical Antiquity, Hellenistic Age, The Hellenistic and Roman Periods 30 B.C – 529 A.D. In the next chapter we'll speak about 5 major periods of the development of Roman...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 292 p. — ISBN: 0521765102 Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each...
Routledge, 2009. — 250 p. Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and...
Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019. Transmissions: Studies on conditions, processes and dynamics of textual transmission, vol. 2. — 420 p. illus. This volume is a collection of papers presented at ‘Ancient Scholarship: Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras’, a conference funded by the British Academy and held at the University of Glasgow, UK on 27 –...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 336 p. This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 255 p. For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the...
Destino, 1966. — 105 p. H. A. Forster nació en Zurich en 1924 y se doctoró en su ciudad natal en 1949. Durante varios años amplió estudios en la humanista ciudad de Basilea, dedicándose posteriormente a la enseñanza de idiomas clásicos. Su actividad investigadora se ha visto complementada con repetidos viajes a los países meridionales, y de modo especial a Grecia. En el...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 347 p. Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014. — 1099 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61451-125-0. This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages. It concludes with a look...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 776 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-983747-2, 978-0-19-085519-2. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define the state of this...
Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 1951. – 587 str. – S ruskog preveo Miroslav Kravar. Ovo djelo predstavlja pokušaj, da se grčka i rimska književnost, organski povezane pod imenom »antičke književnosti« u širu cjelinu, izlože i protumače historijsko-materijalističkom metodom u vezi s razvojem antičkoga društva. Knjiga je namijenjena u prvom redu širim obrazovanim krugovima. Zbog toga se...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 348 p. Epic games are more than just an interlude; they reflect the realities of epic: heroism, power and war. This first major study of the athletic games in Statius’ Thebaid Book 6 uses them to produce a new reading of the poem as a whole. It explores each event in Statius’ games, discussing intertextual manoeuvres, historical context and...
University of Michigan, 2004. — 386 p. Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the Classical, Hellenistic, and especially the Roman imperial periods...
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