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Silloi
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Author : Dee L. Clayman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009
Silloi written by Dee L. Clayman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study of Timons work in English, and includes a new reconstruction of his most influential poem Silloi . All of the extant fragments are translated and discussed as literature rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. The book concludes with a definition of "skeptical aesthetics" that demonstrates the importance of Timon and early Skepticism to the most influential Hellenistic poets: Callimachus, Theocritus and.
The Idea Of Iambos
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Author : Andrea Rotstein
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-12-17
The Idea Of Iambos written by Andrea Rotstein and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented study of ancient theories of genres and the way they affected ancient scholarship. Rotstein also examines the possibility of musical performance of iambic poetry as well as the various occasions of public performance, particularly at musical contests and rhapsodic recitals. Finally, she argues that, from the Archaic to the Classical period, there was a shift from the notion of literary class depending primarily on rhythm and on its archetypical representative, Archilochus, towards iambos as a genre defined mainly by invective as its dominant feature.
Timon Of Phlius
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Author : Dee L. Clayman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-12-15
Timon Of Phlius written by Dee L. Clayman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study in English of the fragments of Timon’s works. Of his more than 100 titles, four fragments remain of a catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses of the Silloi, a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon ridicules philosophers of all periods whom he observes on a trip to Hades. Dee L. Clayman reconstructs the books of the Silloi starting from an outline in Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned to a few fragments by their sources. This has not been attempted since Wachsmuth’s edition of 1885, and carries his approach further by careful observation of syntactic and contextual clues in the text. Using the Greek text of Lloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all of the extant fragments are translated into English and discussed as literature, rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. Separate chapters demonstrate that the principle Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, were aware of Timon’s work specifically, and of Skepticism generally. The book concludes with a definition of “Skeptical aesthetics” that places many of the characteristic features of Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.
Parody
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Author : Margaret A. Rose
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-09-09
Parody written by Margaret A. Rose 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 1993-09-09 with Humor categories.
In this definitive work Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times and offers a new approach to the analysis and classification of modern, late-modern, and post-modern theories of the subject. The author's Parody/Meta-Fiction (1979) was influential in broadening awareness of parody as a 'double-coded' device which could be used for more than mere ridicule. In the present study she both expands and revises the introductory section of her 1979 text and adds substantial new sections on modern and post-modern theories and uses of parody and pastiche which also discuss the work of theorists and writers including the Russian formalists, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ihab Hassan, Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, A. S. Byatt, Martin Amis, Charles Jencks, Umberto Eco, David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and others.
A Companion To The Greek Lyric Poets
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Author : Douglas E. Gerber
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1997-09-01
A Companion To The Greek Lyric Poets written by Douglas E. Gerber and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-01 with Reference categories.
This handbook for the reading of early Greek poetry is intended to be both a manual for teachers and a guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It covers poetry in the elegiac and iambic genres, as well as melic poetry which is provisionally divided into the personal and the public. The book takes a critical look at scholarly trends applied in interpreting this poetry, exploring, for example, the problems of defining the nature of the elegiac genre, the origins of iambic poetry, the personal voice used by the poets, and the validity of historical criticism. Appearing in the Classical Tradition series, it considers the impact of modern literary theory on the reading of these texts - for instance the new interpretations suggested by feminism - and guides readers to a full bibliography on scholarly debates from the 19th century to the present.
Hellenistic Poetry
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Author : David Sider
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017
Hellenistic Poetry written by David Sider 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 2017 with History categories.
A major new collection of use to all students and scholars working on Hellenistic Greek poetry
Brill S Companion To Hellenistic Epigram
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Author : Peter Bing
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-04-30
Brill S Companion To Hellenistic Epigram written by Peter Bing and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-30 with Reference categories.
An internationally renowned set of experts on epigram offers an introduction, fresh approaches, and new direction to the study of Hellenistic-era epigram by exploring the models, forms, poetology, sub-genera, intertexts, and ancient and modern reception of Hellenistic epigram.
The Presocratics At Herculaneum
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Author : Christian Vassallo
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-09-20
The Presocratics At Herculaneum written by Christian Vassallo and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with History categories.
This volume analyses in depth the reception of early Greek philosophy in the Epicurean tradition and provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive edition, with translation and commentary, of all the Herculanean testimonia to the Presocratics. Among the most significant scientific outcomes, it provides elements for the attribution of an earlier date to the attested tradition of Xenophanes’ scepticism; a complete reconstruction of the Epicurean reception of Democritus; a new reconstruction of the testimonia to Nausiphanes’ concept of physiologia, Anaxagoras’ physics and theology, and Empedocles’ epistemology; new texts for better comparing the doxographical sections of Philodemus’ On Piety with those of Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods, which update H. Diels’ treatment of this subject in his Doxographi Graeci.
Proceedings Of The Boston Area Colloquium In Ancient Philosophy Volume Xv 1999
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Author : John J. Cleary
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2000-03-31
Proceedings Of The Boston Area Colloquium In Ancient Philosophy Volume Xv 1999 written by John J. Cleary and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-31 with Philosophy categories.
Most of the colloquia explore important topics such as the notion of self in Plato and the relationship between sense and knowledge in Aristotle. In addition, two colloquia discuss the origins of Pyrrhonic scepticism and the themes of Seneca s "Natural Questions." This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
A Social And Economic History Of The Theatre To 300 Bc Volume 2 Theatre Beyond Athens Documents With Translation And Commentary
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Author : Eric Csapo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-31
A Social And Economic History Of The Theatre To 300 Bc Volume 2 Theatre Beyond Athens Documents With Translation And Commentary written by Eric Csapo 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 2019-12-31 with History categories.
This is the second volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on theatre culture in Attica (Rural Dionysia) and the rest of the Greek world. It presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre culture and dramatic production from the first two centuries of theatre history, namely the period c.500 to c.300 BC. The traditional assumption is laid to rest that theatre was an exclusively or primarily Athenian institution, with the inclusion of all sources of information for theatrical performances in twenty-two deme sites and over one hundred and twenty independent Greek (and some non-Greek) cities. All texts are translated and made accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. The volume will be a fundamental work of reference for all classicists and theatre historians interested in ancient theatre and its wider historical contexts.