The Choice Of Odysseus
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Author | : Sarah Van der Laan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2024-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198778295 |
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The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.
Author | : Silvia Montiglio |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472117742 |
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Odysseus as a model of wisdom in Greek and Roman philosophy
Author | : M. I. Finley |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2002-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1590170172 |
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The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198788805 |
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Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.
Author | : Catherine Collobert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2012-02-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004218661 |
Download Plato and Myth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.
Author | : Mark L. McPherran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521491908 |
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The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato's Republic.
Author | : C.D.C. Reeve |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199934436 |
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C. D. C. Reeve develops a powerful new account of the age-old argument over whether the just are happier than the unjust, drawing from a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy.
Author | : Seth L. Schein |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780691044392 |
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This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and, in particular, of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad, especially to that epic's distinctive conception of heroism. In the introduction, Seth L. Schein describes the poetic background to the work and suggests a variety of interpretive approaches, some of which are developed in the essays that follow. These essays include previously published work by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pietro Pucci, and Charles P. Segal. There also are a new essay by Laura M. Slatkin, two revised and expanded ones by Nancy Felson-Rubin and Michael N. Nagler, and three appearing in English for the first time by Uvo Hlscher, Karl Reinhardt, and Vernant. The result is a collection that juxtaposes older, often hard-to-find articles with significant newer pieces in a way that allows for a fruitful dialogue among them.
Author | : Ed DeHoratius |
Publisher | : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0865167109 |
Download The Journey of Odysseus Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In The Journey of Odysseus, you face the same challenges as Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, but you are in control of your destiny. Only one path brings success and satisfaction. Fifteen others lead to death, defeat, shame, or unending regret.
Author | : Patrick J. Deneen |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780847696239 |
Download The Odyssey of Political Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to rethink the issues that are truly at the heart of our contemporary 'Culture Wars, ' and he encourages us to reassess our assumptions about the Western canon's virtues or viciousness. Deneen's penetrating exploration of Odysseus's and our own enduring battles between the dual temptations of homecoming and exploration, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and relativism and universality provides an original perspective on contentious debates at the center of modern political theory and philosophy