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The Idea of Iambos

2010 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2010
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis The Idea of Iambos by : Andrea Rotstein

Download or read book The Idea of Iambos written by Andrea Rotstein. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the 7th to the late 4th centuries BCE. Employing the evidence of ancient testimonies, Andrea Rotstein also considers the more general question of how literary genres were perceived in ancient Greece.

Timon of Phlius

2009-12-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2009-12-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Timon of Phlius by : Dee L. Clayman

Download or read book Timon of Phlius written by Dee L. Clayman. This book was released on 2009-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study in English of the fragments of Timon’s works. Of his more than 100 titles, four fragments remain of a catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses of the Silloi, a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon ridicules philosophers of all periods whom he observes on a trip to Hades. Dee L. Clayman reconstructs the books of the Silloi starting from an outline in Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned to a few fragments by their sources. This has not been attempted since Wachsmuth’s edition of 1885, and carries his approach further by careful observation of syntactic and contextual clues in the text. Using the Greek text of Lloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all of the extant fragments are translated into English and discussed as literature, rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. Separate chapters demonstrate that the principle Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, were aware of Timon’s work specifically, and of Skepticism generally. The book concludes with a definition of “Skeptical aesthetics” that places many of the characteristic features of Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.

Parody

1993-09-09 Humor
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Release : 1993-09-09
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Parody by : Margaret A. Rose

Download or read book Parody written by Margaret A. Rose. This book was released on 1993-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive work Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times and offers a new approach to the analysis and classification of modern, late-modern, and post-modern theories of the subject. The author's Parody/Meta-Fiction (1979) was influential in broadening awareness of parody as a 'double-coded' device which could be used for more than mere ridicule. In the present study she both expands and revises the introductory section of her 1979 text and adds substantial new sections on modern and post-modern theories and uses of parody and pastiche which also discuss the work of theorists and writers including the Russian formalists, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ihab Hassan, Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, A. S. Byatt, Martin Amis, Charles Jencks, Umberto Eco, David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and others.

A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets

1997 History
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Release : 1997
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets by : Douglas E. Gerber

Download or read book A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets written by Douglas E. Gerber. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, it presents the major scholarly debates affecting the reading of these poetic texts, such as the effect of genre, the question of the poetic persona, or the impact of modern literary theory.

The Presocratics at Herculaneum

2021-09-20 History
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Release : 2021-09-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Presocratics at Herculaneum by : Christian Vassallo

Download or read book The Presocratics at Herculaneum written by Christian Vassallo. This book was released on 2021-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses in depth the reception of early Greek philosophy in the Epicurean tradition and provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive edition, with translation and commentary, of all the Herculanean testimonia to the Presocratics. Among the most significant scientific outcomes, it provides elements for the attribution of an earlier date to the attested tradition of Xenophanes’ scepticism; a complete reconstruction of the Epicurean reception of Democritus; a new reconstruction of the testimonia to Nausiphanes’ concept of physiologia, Anaxagoras’ physics and theology, and Empedocles’ epistemology; new texts for better comparing the doxographical sections of Philodemus’ On Piety with those of Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods, which update H. Diels’ treatment of this subject in his Doxographi Graeci.

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