Lucian Three Menippean Fantasies
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Lucian Three Menippean Fantasies
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Author : Lucian
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-06
Lucian Three Menippean Fantasies written by Lucian and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-06 with Literary Collections categories.
A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan’s lively English translations of Lucian’s three reanimations of Menippus—fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the CorpsesIcaromenippus; or, A Man above the CloudsThe Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian’s evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian’s Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian’s imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire.
Three Menippean Fantasies
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Author : Lucian (of Samosata.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Three Menippean Fantasies written by Lucian (of Samosata.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Electronic books categories.
A handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan's lively English translations of Lucian's three reanimations of Menippus--fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the CorpsesIcaromenippus; or, A Man above the CloudsThe Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian's evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian's Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian's imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire.
Lucian S Laughing Gods
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Author : Inger NI Kuin
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2023-04-10
Lucian S Laughing Gods written by Inger NI Kuin and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-10 with History categories.
The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata
The Tale Of Lucius Or The Ass Onos
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Author : Joel C. Relihan
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2023-03-01
The Tale Of Lucius Or The Ass Onos written by Joel C. Relihan and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-01 with Fiction categories.
An anonymous Greek reworking (doubtfully attributed to Lucian) of the lost, anonymous Greek Metamorphoseis (falsely attributed to Lucius of Patras). An American translation by Joel C. Relihan (Professor of Classics, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts), available as a free eBook from Hackett Publishing Company.
Fantasy In Greek And Roman Literature
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Author : Graham Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Fantasy In Greek And Roman Literature written by Graham Anderson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with History categories.
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, and The Pumpkinification of the Emperor Claudius. Bringing this diverse material together for the first time, Anderson widens readers’ perspectives on the realm of fantasy in ancient literature, including topics such as dialogues with the dead, Utopian communities and fantastic feasts. Going beyond the more familiar world of myth, his examples range from The Golden Ass to the Late Antique Testament of a Pig. The volume also explores ancient resistance to the world of make-believe. Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature is an invaluable resource not only for students of classical and comparative literature, but also for modern writers on fantasy who want to explore the genre’s origins in antiquity, both in the more obvious and in lesser-known texts.
The Cynics
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Author : R. Bracht Branham
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-07-28
The Cynics written by R. Bracht Branham and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-28 with Philosophy categories.
This collection of essays—the first of its kind in English—brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophical and cultural significance of Cynicism from antiquity to the present. Arguably the most original and influential branch of the Socratic tradition, Cynicism has become the focus of renewed scholarly interest in recent years, thanks to the work of Sloterdijk, Foucault, and Bakhtin, among others. The contributors to this volume—classicists, comparatists, and philosophers—draw on a variety of methodologies to explore the ethical, social and cultural practices inspired by the Cynics. The volume also includes an introduction, appendices, and an annotated bibliography, making it a valuable resource for a broad audience.
Reading The Way To The Netherworld
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Author : Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Reading The Way To The Netherworld written by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Religion categories.
The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.
Allegories Of Farming From Greece And Rome
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Author : Leah Kronenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-14
Allegories Of Farming From Greece And Rome written by Leah Kronenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-14 with History categories.
In this book Professor Kronenberg shows that Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Varro's De Re Rustica and Virgil's Georgics are not simply works on farming but belong to a tradition of philosophical satire which uses allegory and irony to question the meaning of morality. These works metaphorically connect farming and its related arts to political life; but instead of presenting farming in its traditional guise as a positive symbol, they use it to model the deficiencies of the active life, which in turn is juxtaposed to a preferred contemplative way of life. Although these three texts are not usually treated together, this book convincingly connects them with an original and provocative interpretation of their allegorical use of farming. It also fills an important gap in our understanding of the literary influences on the Georgics by showing that it is shaped not just by its poetic predecessors but by philosophical dialogue.
Signs Of Orality
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Author : E. Anne MacKay
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1999
Signs Of Orality written by E. Anne MacKay and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume presents essays by leading scholars on the nature of orality as represented by the Homeric poems, and the effect of the oral way of thinking on the subsequent literate and literary development of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
Lucian
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Author : Graham Anderson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-17
Lucian written by Graham Anderson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.