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Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature

Author : Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-03-22
ISBN 13 : 3110303698
Pages : 488 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (33 downloads)

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Download Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature PDF Format Full Free by Theodore D. Papanghelis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map.

Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition

Author : Katerina Carvounis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-11-07
ISBN 13 : 3110791900
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (791 downloads)

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Download Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition PDF Format Full Free by Katerina Carvounis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-18
ISBN 13 : 0199355649
Pages : 464 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (355 downloads)

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Download The Poetics of Late Latin Literature PDF Format Full Free by Jaś Elsner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics in Late Antiquity. The Poetics of Late Latin Literature attempts to capture the excitement and vibrancy of the living ancient tradition reinventing itself in a new context in the hands of a series of great Latin writers mainly from the fourth and fifth centuries AD. A series of the most distinguished expert voices in later Latin poetry as well as some of the most exciting new scholars have been specially commissioned to write new papers for this volume.

Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry

Author : Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-03-19
ISBN 13 : 3110596180
Pages : 345 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (596 downloads)

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Download Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry PDF Format Full Free by Stavros Frangoulidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and ‘reality’; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.

A Companion to Late Antique Literature

Author : Scott McGill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-09-12
ISBN 13 : 1118830342
Pages : 704 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (83 downloads)

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Download A Companion to Late Antique Literature PDF Format Full Free by Scott McGill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages. Comprehensive in scope, this important volume presents new research, methodologies, and significant debates in the field. The Companion explores the histories, forms, features, audiences, and uses of the literature of the period. This authoritative text: Provides an inclusive overview of late antique literature Offers the widest survey to date of the literary traditions and forms of the period, including those in several languages other than Greek and Latin Presents the most current research and new methodologies in the field Contains contributions from an international group of contributors Written for students and scholars of late antiquity, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative review of the literature from the era.

Greek to Latin

Author : G. O. Hutchinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-09-26
ISBN 13 : 0191649724
Pages : 452 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (649 downloads)

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Download Greek to Latin PDF Format Full Free by G. O. Hutchinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Latin and Greek literature is one of the most fundamental questions for Latin literature, and for the reception of Greek literature. This innovative volume shows some of the contexts in which the interaction of the literatures should be viewed. Professor Hutchinson investigates Roman conceptions of their own literary history and Greek literary history as two chronological sequences, artificially separated, and takes the reader around the Mediterranean to see the different places where Romans encountered Greek art with words. The volume looks at Roman perceptions of the contrasting Greek and Latin languages, and compares in detail Latin adaptation of Greek writing with Latin adaptation of Latin. It views the different approaches to Greek material, ideas, and works between three prose 'super-genres', and within the poetic 'super-genre' of hexameters. It is based on an independent collection of evidence, and draws extensively on inscriptions, archaeology, papyri, scholia, and a wide range of texts.

Roman Drama and its Contexts

Author : Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-03-21
ISBN 13 : 3110455587
Pages : 637 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (455 downloads)

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Download Roman Drama and its Contexts PDF Format Full Free by Stavros Frangoulidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their ‘context’, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.

Dicite, Pierides

Author : Andreas N. Michalopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-18
ISBN 13 : 1527509540
Pages : 454 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (59 downloads)

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Download Dicite, Pierides PDF Format Full Free by Andreas N. Michalopoulos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents essays written in honour of Stratis Kyriakidis, Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece. It offers a rich assortment of scholarship on classical literature, ranging from Homeric epic, and the tradition of ecphrasis it spawned in a number of genres, to 17th-century English translations of Virgil’s Aeneid. The collection is divided into two sections, the first on Greek literature, and the second on Latin literature. The sixteen chapters within offer fresh insights and thoughtful readings of a variety of works of classical literature, as well-known as the Iliad and the Aeneid and as exotic as the epigrams of Geminus.

Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels

Author : Scott McGill
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-20
ISBN 13 : 1317296621
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (296 downloads)

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Download Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels PDF Format Full Free by Scott McGill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri IV, or "The Four Books of the Gospels," is a verse rendering of the gospel narrative written ca. 330 CE. Consisting of around 3200 hexameter lines, it is the first of the Latin "Biblical epics" to appear in antiquity, and the first classicizing, hexameter poem on a Christian topic to appear in the western tradition. As such, it is an important text in literary and cultural history. This is the first English translation of the entire poem. The lack of a full English translation has kept many scholars and students, particularly those outside of Classics, and many educated general readers from discovering it. With a thorough introduction to aid in the interpretation and appreciation of the text this clear and accessible English translation will enable a clearer understanding of the importance of Juvencus’ work to later Latin poetry and to the early Church.

Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE

Author : Gabriela Ryser
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2020-01-20
ISBN 13 : 3647573213
Pages : 446 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (573 downloads)

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Download Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE PDF Format Full Free by Gabriela Ryser and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualizes Claudian's handling of the Proserpina myth and the underworld in the history of literature and religion while showing intersections with and differences between the literary and religious uses of the underworld topos. In doing so, the study provides an incentive to rethink the dichotomy of the terms 'religious' and 'non-religious' in favour of a more nuanced model of references and refunctionalisations of elements which are, or could be, religiously connotated. A close philological analysis of De raptu Proserpinae identifies the sphere of myth and poetry as an area of expressive freedom, a parallel universe to theological discourses (whether they be pagan-philosophical or Christian), while the profound understanding and skilful use of this particular sphere – a formative aspect of European religious and intellectual history – is postulated as a characteristic of the educated Roman and of Claudian's poetry.

Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram

Author : Evina Sistakou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-10-24
ISBN 13 : 3110498790
Pages : 435 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (498 downloads)

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Download Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram PDF Format Full Free by Evina Sistakou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the related bibliography. This edition aspires to fill the gap by offering an in-depth study of dialect, diction, and style in Greek literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one contributions authored by international scholars. The authors explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of dialectical variation, the interchange between poetic and colloquial vocabulary, the employment of hapax legomena, the formalistic uses of the epigrammatic discourse (meter, syntactical patterns, arrangement of words, riddles), the various categories of style in sepulchral, philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary epigrams, and the idiosyncratic diction of inscriptions. This is a book intended for classicists who want to review the connection between the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation, as well as for scholars keen to understand how rhetoric and linguistics can be used as a heuristic tool for the study of literature.

Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry

Author : Neil Coffee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-12-16
ISBN 13 : 3110602202
Pages : 485 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (62 downloads)

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Download Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry PDF Format Full Free by Neil Coffee and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reaffirms the central importance of adopting an intertextual approach to the study of Flavian epic poetry and shows, despite all that has been achieved, just how much still remains to be done on the topic. Most of the contributions are written by scholars who have already made major contributions to the field, and taken together they offer a set of state of the art contributions on individual topics, a general survey of trends in recent scholarship, and a vision of at least some of the paths work is likely to follow in the years ahead. In addition, there is a particular focus on recent developments in digital search techniques and the influence they are likely to have on all future work in the study of the fundamentally intertextual nature of Latin poetry and on the writing of literary history more generally.

Beyond Greek

Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016
ISBN 13 : 0674055233
Pages : 392 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (55 downloads)

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Download Beyond Greek PDF Format Full Free by Denis Feeney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this bold revision.

Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Author : Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-05
ISBN 13 : 1443884006
Pages : 198 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (884 downloads)

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Download Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses PDF Format Full Free by Stephen Harrison and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume dedicated to the topic of characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, the Latin novel from the second century CE. The subject has not been ignored in recent scholarship on individual characters in the work, but the lack of an earlier general overview of the topic reflects the general history of scholarship on the Metamorphoses. Literature on Apuleius’ novel until the 1960s centred around the issue of his general literary quality, and some key scholars held distinctly low estimates of Apuleius’ talents. Since 1970, most critics have seen Apuleius as a conscious and effective literary artist, and this is reflected in the emergence of this volume. The volume’s contributors are a distinguished collection of international scholars, many of whom have worked together on the long-established Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius, a project which is currently coming to completion. No ideological line has been imposed, and contributors have been free to offer their thoughts on how the text of the novel presents particular characters, including divine ones. The volume covers the whole of the novel and all the significant characters, and will constitute a substantial contribution to the interpretation of the most important Latin novel to survive complete from the ancient world.

Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture

Author : Anton Bierl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-10-10
ISBN 13 : 3110535157
Pages : 386 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (535 downloads)

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Download Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture PDF Format Full Free by Anton Bierl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars provide an equal number of hermeneutic approaches to individual, distinct aspects of Greek and Latin literature. The volume is purposely designed not as a linear display of knowledge, but rather as an anthology of select paradigms that aim to demonstrate the multidimensional function and multifaceted role of the twin notions of "time" and "space" throughout ancient Greek and Latin literary texts. The volume opens with analyses of conspicuous cases from epic poetry, proceeds with examples from drama (tragedy and comedy), and concludes with diverse instances of chronotopes (empirical, imaginary, and even shifting ones), in various literary genres. The volume is of greatest relevance since it meets the cultural and theoretical trends of today’s Classics. It therefore will attract not only the interest of specialised Classicists but it is also intended for a wider general readership.

Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance

Author : L. B. T. Houghton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-19
ISBN 13 : 1108499929
Pages : 395 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (499 downloads)

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Download Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance PDF Format Full Free by L. B. T. Houghton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil's 'messianic' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

Demons in Late Antiquity

Author : Eva Elm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-01-20
ISBN 13 : 3110632233
Pages : 182 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (632 downloads)

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Download Demons in Late Antiquity PDF Format Full Free by Eva Elm and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perception of demons in late antiquity was determined by the cultural and religious contexts. Therefore the authors of this volume take into consideration a wide variety of texts stemming from different religious milieus ranging from spells, apocalypses, martyrdom literature to hagiography and focus specifically on the literary aspects of the transformation of the demonic in this period of transition.