Lyra Graeca, Vol. 1, Translated by J.m. Edmonds
Author : Lyra Graeca
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Release : 1922
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Author : Lyra Graeca
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File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : J. m. (editor) Edmonds
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File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : J. M. Edmonds
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File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359818
The period from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. was one of extraordinary creativity in the Greek-speaking world. Poetry was a public and popular medium, and its production was closely related to developments in contemporary society. At the time when the city states were acquiring their distinctive institutions epic found the greatest of all its exponents in Homer, and lyric poetry for both solo and choral performance became a genre which attracted poets of the first rank, writers of the quality of Sappho, Alcaeus and Pindar, whose influence on later literature was to be profound. This volume covers the epic tradition, the didactic poems of Hesiod and his imitators, and the wide-ranging work of the iambic, elegiac and lyric poets of what is loosely called the archaic age. The contributors make use of recent papyrus finds (particularly in the case of Archilochus and Stesichorus) to fill out the picture of a cosmopolitan and highly sophisticated literary culture which had not yet found its intellectual centre in Athens.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1985-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521210423
This volume looks at literature of the Hellenistic period.
Author : J. M. Edmonds
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434491307
Being the remains of all the Greek lyric poets from Eumelus to Timothes excepting Pindar, edited and translated by J.M. Edmonds. Originally published in 1922.
Author : Evy Johanne Håland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1443868590
*Winner of the AFS Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize 2016* Multidisciplinary or post-disciplinary research is what is needed when dealing with such complex subjects as ritual behaviour. This research, therefore, combines ethnography with historical sources to examine the relationship between modern Greek death rituals and ancient written and visual sources on the subject of death and gender. The central theme of this work is women’s role in connection with the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. The research is based on studies in ancient history combined with the author’s fieldwork and anthropological analysis of today’s Mediterranean societies. Since death rituals have a focal and lasting importance, and reflect the gender relations within a society, the institutions surrounding death may function as a critical vantage point from which to view society. The comparison is based on certain religious festivals that are dedicated to deceased persons and on other death rituals. Using laments, burials and the ensuing memorial rituals, the relationship between the cult dedicated to deceased mediators in both ancient and modern society is analysed. The research shows how the official ideological rituals are influenced by the domestic rituals people perform for their own dead, and vice versa, that the modern domestic rituals simultaneously reflect the public performances. As this cult has many parallels with the ancient official cult, the following questions are central: Can an analysis of modern public and domestic rituals in combination with ancient sources tell the reader more about the ancient death cult as a whole? What does such an analysis suggest about the relationship between the domestic death cult and the official? Since the practical performance of the domestic rituals was – and still remains – in the hands of women, it is crucial to discover the extent of their influence to elucidate the real power relations between women and men. This research represents a new contribution to earlier presentations of the Greek “reality”, but mainly from the female perspective, which is highly significant since men produced most of the ancient sources. This means that the principal objective for this endeavour is to question the ways in which history has been written through the ages, to supplement the male with a female perspective, perhaps complementing an Olympian Zeus with a Chthonic Mother Earth. The research brings both ancient and modern worlds into mutual illumination; its relevance therefore transcends the Greek context both in time and space.
Author : Ralph Maud
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809319954
Maud (English, Simon Fraser U.) offers a narrative account of the life and work of poet Charles Olson, focusing on the poet's lifelong reading material as a basis for understanding his work. Drawing on an annotated listing of his library, as well as his childhood books and poetry by his contemporaries, he links the books to the poet's intellectual and poetic development at each stage of his career. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Philodemus
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Epigrams, Greek
ISBN : 0679643281
Selected and translated by George Economou, this sexy, modern collection of ancient Greek love poetry is ideal for readers of Pinsky and "Playboy" alike. In a collection of fresh, accessible translations, Hellenistic master poets and two dozen other writers explore the power of Eros.
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Greece
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