By Marios Skempis

By way of introducing a multifaceted method of epic geography, the editors of the amount desire to offer a serious overview of spatial notion, of its repercussions on shaping narrative in addition to of its discursive features and cultural contexts. Taking the genre-specific barriers of Greco-Roman epic poetry as a for instance, a workforce of foreign students examines matters that lie on the center of recent feedback on human geography. glossy and historical discourse on house representations revolves round the nation-shaping strength of geography, the gendered dynamics of landscapes, the topography of isolation and integration, the politics of imperialism, globalization, environmentalism in addition to the ability of language and narrative to show area into position. one of many significant goals of the amount is to teach that the area of the Classics is not only the beginning, however the essence of present debates on spatial buildings and reconstructions.

This selection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, outline, and remodel genre-specific geographical configurations. A staff of foreign students engages in an interdisciplinary dialogue approximately how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historic and cultural dynamics of geography. The booklet brings jointly the area of Classical literature with present developments in reading the politics of spatial buildings.

By Sophocles

During this wanted and hugely expected new translation of the Theban performs of Sophocles, David R. Slavitt offers a fluid, obtainable, and sleek model for either longtime admirers of the performs and people encountering them for the 1st time. Unpretentious and direct, Slavitt’s translation preserves the innate verve and effort of the dramas, attractive the reader—or viewers member—directly with Sophocles’ nice texts. Slavitt chooses to offer the performs no longer in narrative series yet within the order within which they have been composed—Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonus—thereby underscoring the truth that the tale of Oedipus is one to which Sophocles back over the process his lifetime. This association additionally lays naked the list of Sophocles’ highbrow and inventive development.Renowned as a poet and translator, Slavitt has translated Ovid, Virgil, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Ausonius, Prudentius, Valerius Flaccus, and Bacchylides in addition to works in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew. during this quantity he avoids own intrusion at the texts and depends the theatrical equipment of the performs themselves. the result's a massive contribution to the paintings of translation and a model of the Oedipus performs that would charm vastly to readers, theater administrators, and actors.

By Øivind Andersen, Dag T. T. Haug

This booklet units out to disentangle the complicated chronology of early Greek epic poetry, together with Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of those texts is characterized by means of a slightly uniform language and lots of ordinary issues, therefore making the institution of chronological priorities a tricky job. The editors have introduced jointly students engaged on those texts from either a linguistic and a literary standpoint to deal with the matter. a few contributions supply statistical research of the linguistic fabric or linguistic research of subgenres inside epic, others use a neoanalytical method of the background of epic issues or differently search to trace the advance and interrelationship of epic contents. the entire participants concentrate on the consequences in their examine for the courting of early epic poems relative to one another. hence the ebook deals an outline of the present country of debate.

By Epicuro, a cura di Graziano Arrighetti

By Tony Woodman, Jonathan Powell

The connection among the writer and his viewers has got a lot severe recognition from students in non-classical disciplines but the character of a lot historical literature and of its 'publication' intended that audiences in precedent days have been extra speedy to their authors than within the smooth international. This ebook includes essays through wonderful students at the numerous potential during which Latin authors communicated successfully with their audiences. The authors and works lined are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric. participants have supplied exact analyses of specific passages with a purpose to throw mild at the many alternative ways that authors catered for his or her audiences via pleasurable, manipulating and thwarting their expectancies; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn jointly the problems raised through those contributions and feature tried to put them in a suitable serious context.

By Erik Gunderson

Rhetoric completely infused the area and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This better half presents a finished evaluation of rhetorical thought and perform in that global, from Homer to early Christianity, available to scholars and non-specialists, no matter if inside classics or from different classes and disciplines. Its easy premise is that rhetoric is much less a discrete item to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices that come with disputes over the very definition of rhetoric itself. general remedies of old oratory are likely to take it an excessive amount of in its personal phrases and to isolate it unduly from different social and cultural matters. This quantity presents an outline of the form and scope of the issues whereas additionally selecting middle issues and propositions: for instance, persuasion, advantage, and public existence are digital constants. yet they combine and mingle in a different way, and the contents precise by way of every one of those phrases may also shift.

By Pramit Chaudhuri

Epic and tragedy, from Homer's Achilles and Euripides' Pentheus to Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Milton's devil, are choked with characters not easy and warring opposed to the gods. Nowhere is the subject of theomachy extra often and powerfully represented, in spite of the fact that, than within the poetry of early imperial Rome, from Ovid's Metamorphoses in the beginning of the 1st century advert to Statius' Thebaid close to its finish. This publication -- the 1st full-length examine of human-divine clash in Roman literature -- asks why the warfare opposed to god was once so very important to the poets of the time and the way this understudied interval of literary background encouraged a bigger culture in Western literature.

Drawing on quite a few contexts -- politics, faith, philosophy, and aesthetics -- Pramit Chaudhuri argues for the basic significance of battles among people and gods in representing the Roman international. A solid of tyrants, emperors, rebels, iconoclasts, philosophers, and impressive poets brings to existence the most striking creative items of classical antiquity. in keeping with shut readings of the most important extant epics and chosen tragedies, the e-book replaces a historically Aeneid-centric view of imperial epic with a richer discussion among Greek and Roman texts, modern authors, and various genres. The renewed feel of a convention finds how the conflicts those works characterize represent a particular theology proficient by means of different discourses but ordinary to epic and tragedy. starting with the Greek history and finishing with a glance forward to advancements within the Renaissance, this ebook charts the historical past of a subject that might locate its richest expression in a time while males grew to become gods and impiety threatened the very order of the world.

By Professor Laura Jansen

What's a paratext, and the place do we locate it in a Roman textual content? what sort of house does a paratext occupy, and the way does this house relate to the textual content and its contexts? How will we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this strategy recommend a couple of work's unique modes of plotting which means, or the assumptions that underpin our personal interpretation? those questions are crucial to the conceptual and functional matters of the quantity, which deals a synoptic learn of Roman paratextuality and its exegesis in the wide sphere of Roman experiences. Its contributions, which span literary, epigraphic and visible tradition, specialize in a large choice of paratextual positive aspects - e.g. titles and inter-titles, prefaces, indices, inscriptions, remaining statements, ornamental and formalistic information - and different paratextual phenomena, reminiscent of the frames that may be plotted at a number of intersections of a text's formal association.

By Thomas A. Prendergast

First released in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.

By Antonis Tsakmakis, Antonios Rengakos

This quantity on Thucydides, crucial historian of the traditional global, contains articles via thirty major overseas students. The contributions hide a variety of concerns, together with Thucydides' existence, highbrow milieu and predecessors, Thucydides and the act of writing, his rhetoric, ancient process and narrative ideas, narrative harmony within the heritage, the speeches, Thucydides' reliability as a historian, and his legacy in the course of the centuries. different issues handled contain battle, faith, contributors, democracy and oligarchy, the discovery of political technological know-how, Thucydides and Athens, Sparta, Macedonia/Thrace, Sicily/South Italy, Persia, and the Argives. the quantity goals to supply a survey of present developments in Thucydidean experiences so as to be of curiosity to all scholars of old background.