Classical category: 3244 books
The Poetics of Consent
Collective Decision Making and the Iliad
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The Poetics of Consent breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliad’s depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poem’s three...
The Music of Tragedy
Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds.
Written by a team of experts in...
The Gentle, Jealous God
Reading Euripides' Bacchae in English
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially rich and varied translation history....
by John Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written...
Ovid's Early Poetry
From his Single Heroides to his Remedia Amoris
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Ovid is one of the greatest poets in the Classical tradition and Western literature. This book represents the most comprehensive study to date of his early output as a unified literary production. Firstly, the book proposes new ways of organising this part of Ovid's poetic career, the chronology of...
The Creation of iGiselle
Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in the fields of literature, physical education, music, design, and computer science collaborated to revise...
by Liu Hsieh, Vincent Yu-chung Shih
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at...
Literary Territories
Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories argues that forms...
The Unknown Odysseus
Alternate Worlds in Homer's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Unknown Odysseus is a study of how Homer creates two versions of his hero, one who is the triumphant protagonist of the revenge plot and another, more subversive, anonymous figure whose various personae exemplify an entirely different set of assumptions about the world through which each hero...
by Robert Flaceliere
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There are several good histories of Greek literature of various shapes and sizes, but the purpose of this book is not simply to consider the literature of ancient Greece as an isolated subject, treating each of the literary modes - epic, lyric, drama, history, philosophy, and rhetoric - in terms of...
by Manuel Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Iliad is one of the oldest surviving works of western literatureand widely considered one of the best. But many questions remain unanswered about the origin of this classical epic poem. Was the Iliad written by a blind Greek poet named Homer, as people have long believed? If such a man actually...
Claudian's In Eutropium
Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From A.D. 395 to 404, Claudian was the court poet of the Western Roman Empire, ruled by Honorius. In 399 the eunuch Eutropius, the grand chamberlain and power behind the Eastern Roman throne of Honorius's brother Arcadius, became consul. The poem In Eutropium is Claudian's brilliantly nasty response....
Greek Tragedy on the Move
The Birth of a Panhellenic Art Form c. 500-300 BC
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works of Greek tragic drama-Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides-were...