Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
Wiley's Real Latin
Learning Latin from the Source
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively from the Classical Latin canon.
Translation exercises use real Latin from a variety of sources, including political speeches, letters, history, poetry,...
Sex
Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture.
Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman world
Correlates the study of classical sexuality with modern Western cultures
Identifies...
Complex Inferiorities
The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into this position. Though often associated...
by Gilbert Highet
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1949
This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature.
Rethinking Metonymy
Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it has also allowed for problematic appropriations...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott...
by Ancient Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Greek ancient myths are full of allegory and wisdom, a triumph of the truth above lies, tricks over insidiousness, savvy and patience. Heroes of Ancient Greek fairy tales find adventures that will not leave anyone indifferent. When Perseus returned to his home, he saw that his mother was crying in...
by Michael Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his...
by Old Natural Ways, Rebecca Hartman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Ancient Greece has laid way for some of the most influential people, systems and stories of our civilization. It is hard to believe on one hand because technology-wise the Greeks were very primitive, yet on the other hand they were essentially on of the earliest roots of Western civilization. Even...
Adonis
The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern revival of Classical mythology. While aiming...
From Homer to Tragedy
The Art of Allusion in Greek Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies.
Focussing...
Networks of Stone
Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Networks of Stone explores the social and creative processes of sculpture production in Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Using the concept of art worlds, it analyses the contributions and interactions of all those who were in some way part of creating the sculpture set up in the sanctuaries...
Mythos and Voice
Displacement, Learning, and Agency in Odysseus' World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This book focuses on mythos and voice in the Odyssey, to illuminate its characters’ journeys from social displacement through discovery and recovery. Mythos and Voice approaches the Odyssey as a narrative of displacement – a narrative that maps the social displacement of its characters, explores...
Raja Yudhisthira
Kingship in Epic Mahabharata
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary...