Category: Ancient Medieval Literature

By Rhiannon Ash, Visit Amazon's Alison Sharrock Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Alison Sharrock,

A chronological advisor to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is a useful advent to the literature, philosophy and historical past of the traditional global. together with essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, in addition to on significant figures reminiscent of Homer, Plato, Catullus and Cicero, this booklet is an important software for all scholars of classical civilization.

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Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists in addition to the informed reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first released in 1757, was once a milestone in western pondering. This edited quantity will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an get together to re-evaluate Burke’s prominence within the background of principles. located at the threshold among early sleek philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This assortment is the 1st e-book size paintings dedicated essentially to Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in either its ancient context and for its modern relevance. it is going to identify the truth that the Enquiry is a vital philosophical and literary paintings in its personal right.

By Mark Ringer

Metatheater, or "theater inside theater," is a severe procedure usually utilized in stories of Shakespearian or glossy drama. Breaking new flooring within the learn of old Greek tragedy, Mark Ringer applies the idea that of metatheatricality to the paintings of Sophocles. His cutting edge research sheds gentle on Sophocles' technical ingenuity and divulges formerly unrecognized features of fifth-century performative irony. Ringer analyzes the layers of theatrical self-awareness in all sevenSophoclean tragedies, giving targeted recognition to Electra, theplaywright's such a lot metatheatrical paintings. He makes a speciality of performs inside plays,characters who seem to be in contention with their playwright in "scripting"their dramas, and many of the roles that characters suppose of their makes an attempt to mislead different characters or perhaps themselves. Ringer additionally examines cases of literal function enjoying, exploring the consequences of the Greek conference of sharing a number of roles between merely 3 actors. Sophocles has lengthy been praised as one of many masters of dramaticirony. expertise of Sophoclean metatheater, Ringer indicates, deepens our appreciation of that irony and divulges the playwright's prepared information of his artwork.

By Jonathan L. Ready

Jonathan L. prepared bargains the 1st complete exam of Homer's similes within the Iliad as arenas of heroic pageant. This learn concentrates totally on similes spoken by way of Homeric characters. the 1st to provide a sustained exploration of such similes, prepared exhibits how characters are made to contest via and over simile not just with each other but additionally with the narrator. prepared investigates the narrator's similes besides. He demonstrates that Homer amplifies the feat of a profitable warrior through supplying a aggressive orientation to sequences of similes used to explain conflict. He additionally deals a brand new interpretation of Homer's prolonged similes as a method for the poet to visualize his characters as rivals for his realization. all through this learn, prepared makes leading edge use of ways from either Homeric stories and narratology that experience now not but been utilized to the research of Homer's similes.

By Xenophon, Carleton Brownson

Eco-friendly fabric with gold lettering. Greek textual content with accompanying English translation.

By Marcus Tullius Cicero

This scarce antiquarian ebook is a facsimile reprint of the unique. as a result of its age, it could comprise imperfections reminiscent of marks, notations, marginalia and unsuitable pages. simply because we think this paintings is culturally vital, we now have made it to be had as a part of our dedication for shielding, retaining, and selling the world's literature in cheap, top of the range, sleek variants which are precise to the unique paintings.

By C.W. Marx

The concept that of the Devil's rights is a tricky element of the medieval doctrine of the Redemption. This research takes factor with a couple of sleek assumptions in regards to the position of the satan within the medieval scheme of the Redemption and the way this was once awarded in theological and vernacular writing. With distinctive connection with literature produced in England, Marx argues for a brand new speculation to give an explanation for the power curiosity within the Devil's rights within the center a while. The process is interdisciplinary and demonstrates how either vernacular and well known Latin writing in medieval England replied to and absorbed the consequences of theological controversy. Use of the idea that of the Devil's rights is tested in a few very important texts in addition to sermons and narratives of the lifetime of Christ. the image that emerges is one within which principles concerning the Devil's rights locate opposite numbers in well known writing and give a contribution to the improvement of the culture of the talk among Christ and the Devil.C.W. MARXteaches on the division of English, collage of Wales at Lampeter.

By C Musonius Rufus; Epictetus

By Evangelos Karakasis

This e-book deals a finished exam of the language of Roman comedy in most cases and that of Terence specifically. The research explores Terence's use of language to distinguish his characters and his language in terms of the language of the comedian fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. Linguistic different types within the Terentian corpus explored contain colloquialisms, archaisms, hellenisms and idiolectal gains. Terence is proven to provide his previous males an old school and verbose tone, whereas low characters are represented as utilizing colloquial diction. An exam of Eunuchus' language exhibits it to be in the direction of the Plautine linguistic culture. The ebook additionally presents an intensive linguistic/stylistic remark on the entire fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. It indicates that Terence, other than with regards to his Eunuchus, consciously distances himself from the linguistic/stylistic culture of Plautus by way of all different comedian poets.

By Jeffrey Michael Featherstone, Juan Signes-Codoner

A valuable resource for the second one interval of Iconoclasm and the Amorian dynasty, the ancient compilation referred to as Theophanes Continuatus used to be one of the first works of the classicising revival in Byzantium after the darkish Age (7-8th centuries). A severe version of the Greek textual content of Books I IV, exchanging that of 1838 via I. Bekker, is observed right here by means of the 1st whole English translation."