The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic
The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic

Author: Deborah Beck

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-07-20

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1108639771

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Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that complements the epic mythological story is re-imagined afresh in relation to the themes of each epic poem. As Deborah Beck argues in this stimulating book, over time a simile world takes shape across many poems composed over many centuries. This evolving landscape resembles the epic story world of battles, voyages, and heroes that comes into being through relationships among different epic poems. Epic narrative is woven from a warp of the mythological story world and a weft of the simile world. They are partners in creating the fabric of epic poetry.

Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad
Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

Author: Jonathan L. Ready

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0192642626

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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing both close readings of individual passages and synthetic reviews of current scholarship. This format allows readers to study the poem in the same manner in which they read it: book by book. Differing from other introductions to the Iliad that comprise chapters on specific topics and themes, the volume offers accessible and actionable discussions of concepts pertinent to each book of the poem. Differing from other introductory volumes that are written by a single author, this volume allows for a polyphony of critical voices and showcases the diversity of approaches to the Iliad. Finally, differing from commentaries keyed to the Greek text, this volume is completely accessible to those who do not read Homeric Greek. These features make the volume an essential resource for those studying the Iliad in translation and in the original Greek, for those in classical studies and in other disciplines, and for teachers and students, both those at the undergraduate level and those at the graduate level.

Ancient Greece and Rome
Ancient Greece and Rome

Author: Carroll Moulton

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780684805078

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Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.

Reading Ovid
Reading Ovid

Author: Peter Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-03-08

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1316224333

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Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and King Midas. The book is designed for those who have completed an introductory course in Latin and aims to help such users to enjoy the story-telling, character-drawing and language of one of the world's most delightful and influential poets. The text is accompanied by full vocabulary and grammar notes, with assistance based on two widely used beginners' courses, Reading Latin and Wheelock's Latin. Essays at the end of each passage point up important detail and show how the logic of each story unfolds, while study sections offer questions for discussion and ways of thinking further about the passage. No other intermediate text is so carefully designed to make reading Ovid a pleasure.

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Author: Rowlandson

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2018-08-20

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1528785886

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Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711), nee Mary White, was born in Somerset, England. Her family moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the United States, and she settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, marrying in 1656. It was here that Native Americans attacked during King Philip’s War, and Mary and her three children were taken hostage. This text is a profound first-hand account written by Mary detailing the experiences and conditions of her capture, and chronicling how she endured the 11 weeks in the wilderness under her Native American captors. It was published six years after her release, and explores the themes of mortal fragility, survival, faith and will, and the complexities of human nature. It is acknowledged as a seminal work of American historical literature.

Glotta
Glotta

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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1909-1934 include section: Literaturbericht fu r das jahr 1907-1932.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Author: Charles Martindale

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-10-02

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780521498852

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Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.