Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alte…
"'The Iliad and Odyssey,' writes Professor George Steiner, 'are perennially active in the pulse of the English languages, in the texts and contexts of Anglo-Saxon self-definition; these translations and variations on Homeric themes offer nothing less than 'a concise chronicle of…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Die Reihe "Historische Dialogforschung" eröffnet ihre Publikationen mit einem Tagungsband, der mit seiner methodischen Ausrichtung nicht nur an der Schnittstelle von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft steht, sondern auch interdisziplinär komparatist…
Die Reihe "Historische Dialogforschung" eröffnet ihre Publikationen mit einem Tagungsband, der mit seiner methodischen Ausrichtung nicht nur an der Schnittstelle von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft steht, sondern auch interdisziplinär komparatistisch ausgerichtet ist. Der Tagu…
England of the Dark Ages, both its literature and its history are mirrored in the epic of Beowulf. The story of the mythical warrior-prince Beowulf tells us much about England, ca 500-1000 A.D., its people, its neighbors and the conditions.
Presents an English version of the epic poem which dates from the third millenium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immortality.
Presents an English version of the epic poem which dates from the third millenium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immortality.
This cycle of poems collected around the character of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, tells of his long and arduous journey to the Spring of Youth, of his encounters with monsters and gods and of his friendship with Enkidu, the wild man from the hills. Also included in the ep…
The present dissertation examines the widespread presence of tropes of tragic recognition in Roman epic poetry from an interdisciplinary perspective. I argue that Roman epic poets draw at once on tragedy and ancient philosophy to address the cognitive instability generated by ci…
Virgil, Aeneid
by Gransden, Karl W., Vergilius Maro, Publius
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics
Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins. In this commentary, the themes and structure of Book XI are related not only to the rest of the Aeneid but to relevant passages in the Iliad and varying influences upon Virgil's style are cons…
This thesis examines the genre of epic, and particularly Milton’s Paradise Lost. It argues that it is only in attending to the contextual interactions within Paradise Lost that its full meaning can be comprehended. It demonstrates that the poem not only narrates the Fall, but ac…
