Author : Marco Fantuzzi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047408535
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.
Author : Manuel Baumbach
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004233059
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.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004466711
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.
Author : Antonis Tsakmakis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 904740484X
With contributions by thirty leading international scholars, this volume offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all current approaches to Thucydides’ History.
Author : James Noel Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199245062
Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research into evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.
Author : Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004217142
This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by eighteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's literary and cultural reception. The aim of this 2nd edition is to give an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and to provide a survey of recent and current trends in Apollonian studies which will be useful also to students of Hellenistic poetry in general.
Author : Adrian Guiu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004399070
An overview of the context, thought, writings and legacy of John Scottus Eriugena, the most important philosopher and theologian in the Latin West from the death of Boethius until the thirteenth century.
Author : Martin Hose
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118886062
A 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 : Robert C Simms
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004360921
Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores the long tradition of continuing Greek and Roman epics from Homer and the epic cycle to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.
Author : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004216979
Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet second only to Homer in his later reception. For the modern audience, the fragmentation of his texts and the diffusion of source materials has often impeded understanding his poetic achievement. Brill’s Companion to Callimachus has been designed to aid in negotiating this scholarly terrain, especially the process of editing and collecting his fragments, to illuminate his intellectual and social contexts, and to indicate the current directions that his scholarship is taking.
