The World of Ion of Chios

2007-06-30 Literary Criticism

Author : Andrea Katsaros
Release : 2007-06-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The World of Ion of Chios written by Andrea Katsaros. This book was released on 2007-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres include tragedy, elegy, history, biography, mythography and philosophy. Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. He is significant to the history of Athens and Chios as a contemporary of and commentator on Aeschylus, Cimon, Sophocles, Pericles, Themistocles and Socrates. This book is the first to examine how this fascinating but neglected man interacted with his peers and conceptualized himself and his world during one of the most exciting periods of ancient history.

The World of Ion of Chios

2007 Literary Criticism

Author : Victoria Jennings
Release : 2007
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The World of Ion of Chios written by Victoria Jennings. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen international contributors offer the first comprehensive examination of the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios, the prolific and innovative fifth century BC writer (variously prose and poetry) on classical Greek mythology, history and society.

Reconstructing Satyr Drama

2021-07-05 Literary Criticism

Author : Andreas Antonopoulos
Release : 2021-07-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Reconstructing Satyr Drama written by Andreas Antonopoulos. This book was released on 2021-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.

Richard Bentley

2011-04 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Kristine Louise Haugen
Release : 2011-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Richard Bentley written by Kristine Louise Haugen. This book was released on 2011-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue”) by two of the literary giants of his day? Kristine Haugen offers a fascinating portrait of Europe’s most infamous classical scholar and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.

Sparta's First Attic War

2019-08-06 History

Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
Release : 2019-08-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 268/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sparta's First Attic War written by Paul Anthony Rahe. This book was released on 2019-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “provocative, intriguing and cogently argued” exploration of the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance (David Stuttard, Classics for All). During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift opened and an intense, strategic rivalry began. In a continuation of his series on ancient Sparta, noted historian Paul Rahe examines the grounds for their alliance, the reasons for its eventual collapse, and the first stage in an enduring conflict that would wreak havoc on Greece for six decades. Throughout, Rahe argues that the alliance between Sparta and Athens and their eventual rivalry were extensions of their domestic policy, and that the grand strategy each articulated in the wake of the Persian Wars and the conflict that arose in due course grew out of the opposed material interests and moral imperatives inherent in their different regimes. Praise for the series “Persuasive.” —New York Times Book Review “[Rahe] has an excellent eye for military logistics.” —Wall Street Journal

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