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Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol." The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers--the allegorists--were the first to develop the notion. Struck extensively revisits the work of the great allegorists, which has been underappreciated. He links their interest in symbolism to the importance of divination and magic in ancient times, and he demonstrates how important symbolism became when they thought about religion and philosophy. "They see the whole of great poetic language as deeply figurative," he writes, "with the potential always, even in the most mundane details, to be freighted with hidden messages." Birth of the Symbol offers a new understanding of the role of poetry in the life of ideas in ancient Greece. Moreover, it demonstrates a connection between the way we understand poetry and the way it was understood by important thinkers in ancient times.
Books and reading --- Classical poetry --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Symbolism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Allegory. --- Poésie ancienne --- Symbolisme dans la littérature --- Livres et lecture --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Allégorie --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism --- Symbolism in literature --- Greece --- Rome --- Rhetoric [Ancient ] --- Allegory --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Signs and symbols in literature --- Symbolism in folk literature --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Personification in literature --- Rhetoric --- Appraisal --- Evaluation
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This book thoroughly revisits divination as a central phenomenon in the lives of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It collects studies from many periods in Graeco-Roman history, from the Archaic period to the late Roman, and touches on many different areas of this rich topic, including treatments of dice oracles, sortition in both pagan and Christian contexts, the overlap between divination and other interpretive practices in antiquity, the fortunes of independent diviners, the activity of Delphi in ordering relations with the dead, the role of Egyptian cult centers in divinatory practices, and the surreptitious survival of recipes for divination by corpses. It also reflects a ranges of methodologies, drawn from anthropology, history of religions, intellectual history, literary studies, and archaeology, epigraphy, and paleography. It will be of particular interest to scholars and student of ancient Mediterranean religions.
Divination. --- Augury --- Divination --- Waarzeggerij --- Wichelarij --- 133.3 --- Philosophy & psychology Divinatory arts --- Rome --- Greece --- Egypt --- Grèce --- Egypte --- Religion --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Prophezeiung --- Wahrsagen --- Geschichte
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