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Aesopic Conversations

Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose

by Leslie Kurke
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010

Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although...
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Tales of the Narts

Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians

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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts presents a wide selection of fascinating tales preserved as a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia, a region where ethnic identities have been maintained for thousands...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004

The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke...
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Imagining Xerxes

Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King

by Emma Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary...
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by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017

Why does a 5th grader have to learn about the Sumerian Writing System and Literature? Surely you don’t use Sumerian writing these days. However, it is important to learn these things to acquire a better understanding of the origin of cultures, traditions and learning. There could be links from then...
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames

Rewriting Tragedy 1970-2005

by Eleftheria Ioannidou
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of staged and written adaptations...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world. The collection uses essays on the Roman Empire, Mesoamerica, the Philippines, Egypt, and India to emphasize the concept of motherhood as a worldwide phenomenon and experience. While covering a wide geographical...
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by David Scott Wilson-Okamura
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

Why did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as centuries of readers have noticed, something lyrical about Spenser's epic style, and if so, why? In this accessible...
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles

Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War

by Elizabeth Vandiver
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010

Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a wide variety of backgrounds,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture.
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Roman Literary Culture

From Plautus to Macrobius

by Elaine Fantham
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture, Elaine Fantham fills that void by examining the changing social and historical context of literary...
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by Elaine Fantham
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer...
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On Civic Republicanism

Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Continuing the analysis of contemporary issues through the lens of ancient theories beyond the themes of Enduring Empire and the award-winning On Oligarchy, On Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue to modern questions about political...
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