Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry
Author: William G. Thalmann
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Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780608036601
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Author: William G. Thalmann
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Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780608036601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William G. Thalmann
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paola Bassino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-06
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1316813134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAchilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus' return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict where consensus should reign, as do the other major poems of the early Greek hexameter tradition: Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymns describe divine clashes that unbalance the cosmos; Hesiod's Works and Days stems from a quarrel between brothers. These early Greek poems generated consensus among audiences: the reason why they reached us is that people agreed on their value. This volume, accordingly, explores conflict and consensus from a dual perspective: as thematic concerns in the poems, and as forces shaping their early reception. It sheds new light on poetics and metapoetics, internal and external audiences, competition inside the narrative and competing narratives, local and Panhellenic traditions, narrative closure and the making of canonical literature.
Author: Kevin Robb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0195059050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKevin Robb chronicles ancient Greece's "literate revolution", recounting how the Phoenecian alphabet silently entered Greece and, in the improved Greek version, conquered its major cultural institutions. He examines the progress of literacy from its origins in the eighth century to the fourth century B.C.E., when the major institutions of Athenian democracy - most notably law and higher education - became totally dependent on alphabetic literacy. By introducing new evidence as well as re-evaluating the older evidence, Robb shows that early Greek literacy can be understood only in terms of the rich oral culture that immediately preceded it - one that was dominated by the oral performance of epic verse, or "Homer". Only gradually did literate practices supersede oral habits and the oral way of life, forging alliances which now seem both bizarre and fascinating, but which were eminently successful, contributing to the "miracle" of Greece. Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece provides a fascinating look at the first society to become culturally dependent on the alphabet. In it, Robb elucidates how, in the space of four hundred years, total orality gave way to an advancing literacy. In the process of his investigation, he brings new light to early Greek ethics, the rise of written law, the emergence of philosophy, and the final dominance of the Athenian philosophical schools in higher education.
Author: Zoe Stamatopoulou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-16
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107162998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in lyric poetry and drama in the fifth century BCE.
Author: René Nünlist
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9047405706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device by individual authors, but also a larger historical perspective on the manner in which it changes over time and is put to different uses by different authors in different genres. The first volume lays the foundation for all volumes to come, discussing the definition and boundaries of narrative, and the roles of its producer, the narrator, and recipient, the narratees.
Author: Noriko Yasumura
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 147250447X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines passages drawn mainly from Homer, Hesiod's Theogony, and the Homeric hymns for threats to Zeus's supremacy, focusing on themes of cosmic/divine and generational strife, revealing hints of lost legends.
Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780801480225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this subtle, learned, and daring book, Claude Calame subverts common assumptions about the relationships between poet and audience, challenging his readers to rethink the very principles of mythmaking in the poetry and art of the ancient Greeks.
Author: Martin Hose
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-02-11
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 1119088615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways
Author: Hesiod
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0520292855
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Theogony is one of the most important mythical texts to survive from antiquity, and we devote the first section to it. It tells of the creation of the present world order under the rule of almighty Zeus. The Works and Days, in the second section, describes a bitter dispute between Hesiod and his brother over the disposition of their father's property, a theme that allows Hesiod to range widely over issues of right and wrong. The Shield of Herakles, whose centerpiece is a long description of a work of art, is not by Hesiod, at least most of it, but it was always attributed to him in antiquity. It is Hesiodic in style and has always formed part of the Hesiodic corpus. It makes up the third section of this book"--Provided by publisher.