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Brill's Companion to Aphrodite

Author : Amy C. Smith

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 470 pages

File Size : 18,22 MB

Release : 2010-03-25

Category : History

ISBN : 9047444507

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Brill's Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite—one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped in four parts according to aspects of the goddess: 'Aphrodite’s Identity’; ‘Aphrodite's Companions and Relations’; ‘The Spread of Aphrodite’s Cults’ and ‘The Reception of the Goddess.’ Each part draws on literary and visual sources, incorporates Greek, Roman, and later material, and ranges across places and periods—from prehistoric Cyprus and the Near East to the antiquities market in 19th century France. This book therefore crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, as well as the multiple aspects and characteristics of the goddess



Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception

Author : Manuel Baumbach

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 666 pages

File Size : 26,46 MB

Release : 2015-03-20

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004233059

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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 or female characters were regarded as typically “epyllic” features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call “epyllia” were not considered a coherent genre, which seems to be an innovation of the late 18th century. The contributions in this book not only re-examine some important (and some lesser known) Greek and Latin primary texts, but also critically reconsider the theoretical discourses attached to it, and also sketch their literary and scholarly reception in the Byzantine and Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age.



Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception

Author : Manuel Baumbach

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 667 pages

File Size : 29,9 MB

Release : 2012-10-12

Category : History

ISBN : 9004214321

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This book offers a critical re-examination of some important (and some lesser known) texts which are commonly labelled 'epyllia' in classical scholarship. It traces the history of the generic term 'epyllion' and sketches the literary and scholarly reception of these texts.



Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral

Author : Marco Fantuzzi

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 680 pages

File Size : 49,47 MB

Release : 2006-06-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9047408535

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The twenty-three contributions collected in this volume on Greek and Latin Pastoral focus mainly on the historical genesis, the stylistic and narrative features, the literary self-definition, and the fortunes of pastoral from its Theocritean origins to the Byzantine age.



Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 904 pages

File Size : 23,8 MB

Release : 2016-03-11

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 900431069X

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The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a ‘Christian’ hexameter Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no doubt the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity. Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by a large international group of scholars, experts in the field of archaic, Hellenistic, Imperial, and Christian poetry, as well as scholars of late antique Egypt, Greek mythology and religion, who explore the various aspects of Nonnus’ baroque poetry and its historical, religious and cultural background.



Aphrodite

Author : Monica Silveira Cyrino

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 167 pages

File Size : 29,31 MB

Release : 2010

Category : History

ISBN : 0415775221

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First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.



Brill's Companion to Theocritus

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 852 pages

File Size : 28,13 MB

Release : 2021-08-16

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004466711

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Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.



Venus and Aphrodite

Author : Bettany Hughes

Publisher : Basic Books

Page : 161 pages

File Size : 42,36 MB

Release : 2020-09-22

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1541674243

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A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus -- and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. Proving that this fabled figure is so much more than an avatar of commercialized romance, historian Bettany Hughes reveals the remarkable lifestory of one of antiquity's most potent myths. Venus and Aphrodite brings together ancient art, mythology, and archaeological revelations to tell the story of human desire. From Mesopotamia to modern-day London, from Botticelli to Beyoncé, Hughes explains why this immortal goddess continues to entrance us today -- and how we trivialize her power at our peril.



The "Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite" and Related Texts

Author : S. Douglas Olson

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 32,1 MB

Release : 2012-07-04

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3110260743

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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called ‘major Homeric Hymns’. However, it is also richly and beautifully conceived and narrated, and of enormous importance for the Greek mythology and the history of Greek religion. Olson offers a complete new text of the poem and of ten related ‘minor Hymns’, based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a full critical apparatus; and a translation. The work is completed by a substantial introduction, which treats inter alia the stories of Aeneas, the problem of dating early Greek epic, and the nature of the connections between the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Homeric and Hesiodic poems. Olson furthermore offers a substantial, narratologically-oriented commentary.



Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas

Author : Giorgos Papantoniou

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 451 pages

File Size : 50,11 MB

Release : 2019-05-15

Category : History

ISBN : 9004384839

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Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas is a collective volume presenting newly excavated material, as well as diverse and innovative approaches in the study the iconography, function and technology of ancient terracottas.