The Geography of the Orphic Argonautica
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Greek poetry
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Greek poetry
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Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
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ISBN : 1105198944
Author : Daniela Dueck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521197880
An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
Author : Katerina Carvounis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110791900
The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late Antiquity to have been familiar with leading works of Latin poetry, either in the original or in translation, the contributions in this book pursue a new form of intertextuality, in which the leading epic poets of the Imperial era (Quintus of Smyrna, Triphiodorus, Nonnus, and the author of the Orphic Argonautica) engage with a range of models in inventive, complex, and often covert ways. Instead of asking, in other words, whether Greek authors used Latin models, we ask how they engaged with them and why they opted for certain choices and not for others. Through sophisticated discussions, it becomes clear that intertexts are usually systems that combine ideology, cultural traditions, and literary aesthetics in an inextricable fashion. The book will prove that Latin literature, far from being distinct from the Greek epic tradition of the imperial era, is an essential, indeed defining, component within a common literary and ideological heritage across the Roman empire.
Author : Cambridge Philological Society
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Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Classical philology
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Author : Henry Fanshawe Tozer
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476615667
The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia. From the Bronze Age to the Classical Age, from the medieval world to today, the Jason story has been told and retold with new stories, details and meanings. This book explores the epic history of a colorful myth and probes the most ancient origins of the quest for the Golden Fleece--a quest that takes us to the very dawn of Greek religion and its close relationship with Near Eastern peoples and cultures.
Author : Denise Davidson Greaves
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521518318
Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.
Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134192320
In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean Roller chronicles a detailed account of the series of explorers who were to discover the entire Atlantic coast; north to Iceland, Scandinavia and the Baltic, and south into the Africa tropics. His account examines these early pioneers and their discoveries, and contributes a brand new chapter to the history of exploration. Based not only on the literary evidence, but also personal knowledge of the areas from the Arctic to west Africa, the book looks at the people, from the earliest Greeks, through the Carthaginians to the Romans, and examines their exploration of this vast and largely unfamiliar territory. Discussing for the first time the relevance of Iceland and the Arctic to Greco-Roman culture, this groundbreaking work is an enthralling and informative read that will be an invaluable study resource for Greek and Roman history courses