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The Wrath of Athena : Gods and Men in the Odyssey
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ISBN: 0691065748 Year: 1983 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

Hesiod's cosmos
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ISBN: 1107137071 128043659X 0511180926 0511062141 0511205074 051130787X 0511482396 0511070608 9780511062148 9780511070600 9780521823920 0521823927 9781280436598 9780511307874 9786610436590 6610436592 9780511482397 9780521117685 0521117682 9781107137073 9780511180927 9780511205071 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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"Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race, and the two versions of the Prometheus myth. She then examines the role of human beings in the Theogony and the role of the gods in the Works and Days, as well as the position of the hybrid figures of monsters and heroes within the Hesiodic cosmos and in relation to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women."--Jacket.

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Religious poetry, Greek --- Didactic poetry, Greek --- Cosmology, Ancient, in literature. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Human beings in literature. --- Gods, Greek, in literature. --- Monsters in literature. --- Man in literature --- Greek religious poetry --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism. --- Hesiod. --- Hesiod --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος --- Knowledge --- Cosmology. --- Cosmology, Ancient, in literature --- Gods, Greek, in literature --- Human beings in literature --- Monsters in literature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- History and criticism --- Hesiodus --- Cosmology --- Religious poetry [Greek ] --- Didactic poetry [Greek ] --- Cosmology [Ancient ] in literature --- Mythology [Greek ] in literature --- Gods [Greek ] in literature --- Alceste (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature. --- Cosmologie antique dans la littérature. --- Didactic poetry, Greek. --- Dieux grecs dans la littérature. --- Homme dans la littérature. --- Kosmologie. --- Literatura grega. --- Monstres dans la littérature. --- Poésie didactique grecque --- Poésie religieuse --- Religious poetry, Greek. --- Wereldbeeld. --- Histoire et critique. --- Hesiodus, --- Hésiode --- Hésiode. --- Hesiodo. --- Hesiodus. --- Et la cosmologie. --- Theogony (Hesiod). --- Works and days (Hesiod). --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Religious poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Didactic poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Hesiod - Theogony --- Hesiod - Works and days --- Hesiod - Knowledge - Cosmology


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Homer's Trojan theater
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ISBN: 1107216893 0511853165 128297825X 9786612978258 0511667027 0511931980 0511933347 0511928130 0511925603 051193064X 9780511930645 9780511933349 9780511667022 9780521762779 0521762774 9780521149488 0521149487 9781107216891 9780511853166 6612978252 9780511931987 9780511928130 9780511925603 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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"Moving away from the verbal and thematic repetitions that have dominated Homeric studies and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this highly innovative and accessible study focuses on the visual poetics of the Iliad as the narrative is envisioned by the poet and rendered visible. It does so through a close analysis of the often-neglected 'Battle Books'. They here emerge as a coherently visualized narrative sequence rather than as a random series of combats, and this approach reveals, for instance, the significance of Sarpedon's attack on the Achaean Wall and Patroclus' path to destruction. In addition, Professor Strauss Clay suggests new ways of approaching ancient narratives: not only with one's ear, but also with one's eyes. She further argues that the loci system of mnemonics, usually attributed to Simonides, is already fully exploited by the Iliad poet to keep track of his cast of characters and to organize his narrative"-- "How can Homer turn his listeners into spectators? His characters and the events he describes belong to a remote past, and he emphasizes that temporal distance by insisting on the gulf between his heroes and "men who are now."1 Our analysis of Homeric battle sequences has its basis in Homeric poetics, particularly those aspects that involve vision and emphasize sight as the ultimate source of the poet's knowledge of the distant events on the plains of Troy. But since the work of Milman Parry, the study of the Homeric poems has focused on verbal repetitions of formulaic expressions on the level of the individual hexameter lines, on type scenes in sequences of verses, and finally on typical motifs and themes that form the larger building blocks of the narrative.2 Through extensive training, the poet acquires a mastery of all these forms of repetition from the micro level of the formulaic phrase to the macro level of thematic sequence that ultimately allows him to combine and recombine these traditional components to structure his narrative. Despite its insights, Parry's work and that of his followers nevertheless did not fundamentally alter the coordinates of the Homeric Question that had dominated discussion since the end of the eighteenth century. The focus remained on the composition and the mechanics of the production, whether oral or written, of the Homeric poems"--


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Panhellenes at Methone : graphê in late geometric and protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca. 700 BCE)
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ISBN: 9783110501278 3110501279 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Tracking Hermes, pursuing Mercury
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ISBN: 9780198777342 0198777345 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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"Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet is also kindly towards mankind and a bringer of luck. His functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and their transgression, but also extend to commerce, lucre, and theft, as well as rhetoric and practical jokes. In another guise, he plays the role of mediator between all realms of human and divine activity, embracing heaven, earth, and the netherworld. 0Pursuing this elusive divinity requires a truly multidisciplinary approach, reflecting his prismatic nature, and the twenty contributions to this volume draw on a wide range of fields to achieve this, from Greek and Roman literature (epic, lyric, and drama), epigraphy, cult, and religion, to vase painting and sculpture. In offering an overview of the myriad aspects of Hermes/Mercury-including his origins, patronage of the gymnasium, and relation to other trickster figures-the volume attempts to track the god's footprints across the many domains in which he partakes. Moreover, in keeping with his deep connection to exchange, commerce, and dialogue, it aims to exemplify and further encourage discourse between Latinists and Hellenists, as well as between scholars of literary and material cultures."--


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Gods and mortals in Greek and Latin poetry : studies in honor of Jenny Strauss Clay
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ISBN: 9786188222922 6188222923 Year: 2018 Publisher: Rethymnon : School of Philosophy, University of Crete,


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Cosmologies et cosmogonies dans la littérature antique : huit exposés suivis de discussions et d'un épilogue
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ISBN: 9782600007610 260000761X 9783774939905 377493990X Year: 2015 Volume: 61 Publisher: Vandoeuvres : Fondation Hardt,


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Archaic and Classical Choral Song
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ISBN: 1283400316 9786613400314 3110254026 9783110254020 3112190440 3110254018 3110482371 9781283400312 9783110254013 9783110482379 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose first performers were a choral group, sometimes singing in a ritual context, sometimes in more secular celebrations of victories in competitive games. It explores the different ways such a group presented itself and was perceived by its audiences; the place of tyrants, of other prominent individuals and of communities in commissioning and funding choral performances and in securing the further circulation of the songs' texts and music; the social and political role of choral songs and the extent to which such songs continued to be performed both inside and outside the immediate family and polis-community, whether chorally or in archaic Greece's important cultural engine, the elite male symposium, with the consequence that Athenian theatre audiences could be expected to appreciate allusion to or reworking of such poetic forms in tragedy and comedy; and how various types of performance contributed to transmission of written texts of the poems until they were collected and edited by Alexandrian scholars in the third and second centuries BC.

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