Author : Laurialan Reitzammer
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299308200
A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.
Author : Jeffrey Beneker
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0299328406
The famous polymath Plutarch often discussed the relationship between spouses in his works, including Marriage Advice, Dialogue on Love, and many of the Parallel Lives. In this collection, leading scholars explore the marital views expressed in Plutarch's works and the art, philosophy, and literature produced by his contemporaries and predecessors. Through aesthetically informed and sensitive modes of analysis, these contributors examine a wealth of representations—including violence in weddings and spousal devotion after death. The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World demonstrates the varying conceptions of an institution that was central to ancient social and political life—and remains prominent in the modern world. This volume will contribute to scholars' understanding of the era and fascinate anyone interested in historic depictions of marriage and the role and status of women in the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.
Author : Clara S. Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 9780472074464
A detailed look for the classroom at one of the most significant events in Athens' history
Author : Daniel S. Werner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1107021286
Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.
Author : Angus M. Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 9780521440127
This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the plays. This information is then used to suggest ways in which twentieth-century audiences may read the plays in terms of contemporary literary theories and concerns. This is the first book to apply the techniques of structural anthropology systematically to all the comedies. It does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays but argues that each play operates with a range of different structures, and that groups of plays use similar structures in different ways. All Greek is translated.
Author : Adriana E. Brook
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0299313808
An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1734
Category : English drama (Comedy)
ISBN :
National Sylvan Theatre, Washington Monument grounds, The Community Center and Playgrounds Department and the Office of National Capital Parks present the ninth summer festival program of the 1941 season, the Washington Players in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," produced by Bess Davis Schreiner, directed by Denis E. Connell, the music by Mendelssohn is played by the Washington Civic Orchestra conducted by Jean Manganaro, the setting and lights Harold Snyder, costumes Mary Davis.
Author : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299306046
By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. Historians of late antiquity have struggled to explain the fictional date and authorship of the work and its bizarre content (did the Emperor Carinus really swim in pools of floating apples and melons? did the usurper Proculus really deflower a hundred virgins in fifteen days?). David Rohrbacher offers, instead, a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions. Marshaling an array of interdisciplinary research and original analysis, he contends that the Historia Augusta originated in a circle of scholarly readers with an interest in biography, and that its allusions and parodies were meant as puzzles and jokes for a knowing and appreciative audience.
Author : Jenifer Neils
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1108484557
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 113436508X
It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, worshipped new and exotic deities, used magic for both erotic and pain-relieving purposes, and far more besides. Clear and comprehensive, this volume challenges many stereotypes of Greek women and offers unexpected insights into their experience of religion. With more than fifty illustrations, and translated extracts from contemporary texts, this is an essential resource for the study of women and religion in classical Greece.
