Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception
Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception

Author: Philip Hardie

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-08-21

Total Pages: 1542

ISBN-13: 3110798859

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This volume gathers together about two thirds of the articles and essays published between 1983 and 2021 by Philip Hardie, whose work on ancient literature has been of seminal importance in the field. The centre of gravity lies in late Republican and Augustan poetry, in particular Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid, with important contributions on wider Augustan culture; on Neronian and Flavian epic; on the Latin poetry of late antiquity; and on the reception of Latin poetry.

Essays on Ancient Literature and Its Reception
Essays on Ancient Literature and Its Reception

Author: Philip R. Hardie

Publisher: de Gruyter

Published: 2023-04-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783110792423

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Trends in Classics, a series and journal edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, publishes innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity. The series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes welcomes monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and collections of papers; it provides an important forum for the ongoing debate about where Classics fits in modern cultural and historical studies. The journal Trends in Classics is published twice a year with approx. 160 pp. per issue. Each year one issue is devoted to a specific subject with articles edited by a guest editor.

Tombs of the Ancient Poets
Tombs of the Ancient Poets

Author: Nora Goldschmidt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0192561030

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Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture.

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception
Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception

Author: David Michael Christenson

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781350344716

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"The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as ordering principles of human experience; divine birth and the manifold nature of divinity (both awesome and terrifying); contemplation of the sky and meteorological (ir)regularity; fears associated with overpowering natural and anthropogenic events; and the aspirations and limitations of human expression. In texts ranging from Homer to Keats, the volume's chapters apply diverse critical methods and approaches that engage with sublimity in various aesthetic, agential and metaphysical aspects"--

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-08-08

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9004517561

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The discoveries of Coptic books containing “Gnostic” scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century for the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism. Yet, impeded by academic insularity and delays in publication, scholars never conducted a full-scale, comparative investigation of these two sensational corpora—until now. Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, interdisciplinary study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem

Author: Robert A. Rohland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-12-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1009040987

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Carpe diem – 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This is the first book-length examination of its significance and demonstrates that close analysis can make a key contribution to a question that is central to literary studies in and beyond Classics: how can poetry give us the almost magical impression that something is happening here and now? In attempting an answer, Robert Rohland gives equal attention to Greek and Latin texts, as he offers new interpretations of well-known poems from Horace and tackles understudied epigrams. Pairing close readings of ancient texts along with interpretations of other forms of cultural production such as gems, cups, calendars, monuments, and Roman wine labels, this interdisciplinary study transforms our understanding of the motif of carpe diem.

On Coming After
On Coming After

Author: Richard Hunter

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 907

ISBN-13: 9783111737874

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Biographical note: Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Reception in the Greco-Roman World
Reception in the Greco-Roman World

Author: Marco Fantuzzi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1316518582

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Harnesses the insights generated by 30 years of reception studies to enhance the study of classical Greek literature.

Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

Author: Katja Maria Vogt

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9783161533365

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This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical introduction, translation, commentary, and scholarly essays on the nature of Diogenes's report as well as core questions in recent research on skepticism.