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Author: C. B. R. Pelling
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199597367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction to twelve authors from classical antiquity, whose works still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today.
Author: Christopher Pelling
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0191053643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, showing how these great figures from classical antiquity still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today (of war and courage, dictatorship and democracy, empire, immigration, city life, art, madness, irrationality, and religious commitment), and express some of our most personal sentiments (about family and friendship, desire and separation, grief and happiness). These twelve classical voices can sound both compellingly familiar and startlingly alien to the twenty-first century reader. Yet they remain suggestive and inspiring, despite being rooted in their own times and places, and have profoundly affected the lives of those prepared to listen to them right up to the present day.
Author: Chris Carey
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1527574849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether in the courts, Parliament or the pub, to persuade you need proof, be that argument- or evidence-based. But what counts as proof, and as satisfactory proof, varies from culture to culture and from context to context. This volume assembles a range of experts in ancient Greek literature to address the theme of proof from different angles and in the works of different authors and contexts. Much of the focus is on the Athenian orators, who discussed the nature and kinds of proof from at least the fourth century BC and are still the subject of lively debate. But demonstration through evidence and argument and the language of proof are not limited to the lawcourts. They have a place in other literary forms, prose and verse, including drama and historiography, and these too feature in the collection. The book will be of interest to students and professional scholars in the fields of Greek literature and law, and Greek social and political history.
Author: Michael A. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1107050065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
Author: Myrto Aloumpi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-10-21
Total Pages: 954
ISBN-13: 3111448843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek and Latin literature and genres, from Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek drama and late antiquity, Greek historiography, and Latin lyric poetry.
Author: Alexandra Lianeri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-03-07
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 3110430827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the early modern period, Greek historiography has been studied in the context of Cicero's notion historia magistra vitae and considered to exclude conceptions of the future as different from the present and past. Comparisons with the Roman, Judeo-Christian and modern historiography have sought to justify this perspective by drawing on a category of the future as a temporal mode that breaks with the present. In this volume, distinguished classicists and historians challenge this contention by raising the question of what the future was and meant in antiquity by offering fresh considerations of prognostic and anticipatory voices in Greek historiography from Herodotus to Appian and by tracing the roots of established views on historical time in the opposition between antiquity and modernity. They look both at contemporary scholarly argument and the writings of Greek historians in order to explore the relation of time, especially the future, to an idea of the historical that is formulated in the plural and is always in motion. By reflecting on the prognostic of historical time the volume will be of interest not only to classical scholars, but to all who are interested in the history and theory of historical time.
Author: K. Scarlett Kingsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-31
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1009159453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of essays exploring tradition and innovation across the full temporal range of Greco-Roman historiography.
Author: Christopher Pelling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-06
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1316829820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415–413 BCE). Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias no match for risk-taking Alcibiades, and at Syracuse, with the statesmanlike Hermocrates confronting the populist Athenagoras. The spectacle of the armada is memorably described; so is the panic at Athens when people fear that acts of sacrilege may be alienating the gods, with Alcibiades himself so implicated that he is soon recalled. The Book ends with Athens seeming poised for victory; that will soon change, and a sister commentary on Book 7 is being published simultaneously. The Introduction discusses the narrative skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the history. Considerable help with the Greek is offered throughout the Commentary.
Author: Franco Montanari
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-10-07
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 3111501892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world. The volume at hand, entitled In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature, explores pastness as expressed through myth and early history and as reflected in sophisticated concepts and epistemological questions in Ancient Greek and Latin literature. The eighteen contributions illustrate how the ancients addressed the past through poetry, history and philosophy and lend insight into the metaliterary, self-reflexive way of dealing with past texts through scholarship.
Author: Simon Allcock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-04-22
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1350060445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included. ----- The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2022–24 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are: AS and A Level Groups 1&3 Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 19 to 6.32 Plato, Symposium, 189c2 to 194e2 Homer, Odyssey 1, lines 213–444 Sophocles, Ajax, lines 1–133, 284–347, 748–783 A Level Groups 2&4 Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 47 to 50.1 and 53 to 61 Plato, Symposium, 201d to end of 206b Plutarch, Alcibiades, X.1.1 to XVI.5 Homer, Odyssey 6, lines 85–331 Sophocles, Ajax, lines 430–582, 646–692, 815–865 Aristophanes, Clouds, lines 1–242 Resources are available on the Companion Website.
