Ancient Classical category: 1324 books

Cover of Five Stages Of Greek Religion
by Gilbert Murray
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

Five Stages Of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray Gilbert Murray's book "The Five Stages of Greek Religion" is t he outgrowth of a lecture series given before the First World War. Murray traces the growth and development of Greek religion from its beginnings in prehistorical animism to the full...
Cover of The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008

The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon...
Cover of Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018

Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely provides...
Cover of Horace (Routledge Revivals)
by C.D.N. Costa
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles¸ Satires and...
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Oedipus and the Sphinx

The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

by Almut-Barbara Renger
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle—he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture’s central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth—in which the hero crosses over into an unknown...
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The Space That Remains

Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity

by Aaron Pelttari
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014

When we think of Roman Poetry, the names most likely to come to mind are Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, who flourished during the age of Augustus. The genius of Imperial poets such as Juvenal, Martial, and Statius is now generally recognized, but the final years of the Roman Empire are not normally associated...
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Homer in Performance

Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters

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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018

Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the...
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Roman Letters

An Anthology

by Noelle K. Zeiner-Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013

Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancient Roman letters spanning from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected from a broad range of authors. A...
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The Lesbian Lyre

Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century

by Jeffrey M. Duban
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016

Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know...
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Living Myths

How Myth Gives Meaning to Human Experience

by J.F. Bierlein
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010

An intriguing exploration of the enduring significance of the world's great myths--from the dawn of time to the present day As ancient as speech, as essential as law, myths are the stories we tell to find our identity in the cosmos. It is through mythology that we attempt to unravel not only...
Cover of Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil
by Stephen Ridd
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid are three of the most important—and influential—works of Western classical literature. Although they differ in subject matter and authorship, these epic poems share a common purpose: to tell the “deeds both of men and of the gods.” Written...
Cover of The Blackwell History of the Latin Language
by James Clackson, Geoffrey Horrocks
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011

This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and Vergil, and examines the impact...
Cover of Ovid (Routledge Revivals)
by J. W. Binns
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Ovid, Rome’s most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid’s claims to critical attention. This collection of essays...
Cover of The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
by Casey Dué
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been...
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