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Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar is a prime source of information
about people and affairs in Iceland from the 1180s to 1217, the
beginning of the Sturlung Age, and the great period of creativity
in Icelandic saga-writing. The first critical edition based on all
the manuscripts currently available, the saga offers insightful
information about daily life, seafaring, law, feud, medicine,
superstition, and "sacramental" and "secular" attitudes. The volume
is furnished with full textual notes, a detailed introduction, and
a substantial commentary that clarifies points of content,
language, and style.
The end of the twentieth century witnessed a « boom in the
production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women's
writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers
is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the « post-boom«
period of Latin American literary history, a phenomenon that has
been influenced in turn by the burgeoning development of a number
of women's movements on the continent. Within this « boom« , the
short story has become an increasingly popular genre amongst women
writers. This book considers the location(s) of four major women
writers - Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferre, Albalucia Angel, and
Isabel Allende - and their short fiction within these changing
literary and social contexts. Combining close textual analysis of
their fiction with a consideration of the social, historical, and
geographical contexts of literary production, this book is
essential reading for students and scholars in Latin American
studies, women's studies, and comparative literature.
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoise Mac Sweeney investigate
the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition
through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia
to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a
range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot
paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a
range of different media and genres. Inspired by the dialogues
inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic
structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac
Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single
theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a
diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions.
The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual
instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts,
but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The
centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is
shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with
Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea
of the Homeric.
The question "What is Latin America?" has been at the heart of
writing from and about Latin America from Columbus' conquest to
present-day discussions and nationalising projects. What this
belies is the inherent question "What is Latin America compared to
Europe?" This book lays bare the underlying logic of a Latin
Americanist discourse through some of the continent's most
influential thinkers, including Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose
Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Jose Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Roberto
Fernandez Retamar, Nestor Garcia Canclini, and Walter Mignolo.
Civilisation and Authenticity presents case studies of two of Latin
America's most renowned and representative twentieth-century
writers, the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentine Julio
Cortazar and reveals how desire to define Latin America is entwined
throughout their groundbreaking experimental novels, focusing on
Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos (1953) and Cortazar's Rayuela
(1963). New research into the poetics of these authors and
jargon-free analyses of their fiction outline how the Latin
Americanist discourse persists in both writers' representations of
the Latin American landscape and people as either Europe's
"authentic" and marvelous "Other", or its "civilised" and modern
counterpart. Civilisation and Authenticity presents new research
for experts on Carpentier and Cortazar and will be indispensable to
students of Latin American literature. Its delineation of the Latin
Americanist discourse makes it an ideal reference for anybody
studying Latin American cultural studies.
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and
soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the
Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many
other famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for
Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge
range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the
world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride
over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra
del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here
are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays
satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives
of millions. Ovid (c.43 BCE-17 CE). Ovid's other works available in
Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems, Fasti, Heroides and
Metamorphoses.
Medieval liturgical practice both expressed and helped shape habits
of thought and imagination in ways which were deep and
far-reaching, encompassing embodied, lived experience and the most
sophisticated theological thought. This book argues that Dante, in
common with his contemporaries, saw the liturgical rituals of the
Church as a mode of religious practice which manifested what he
considered to be the central truths regarding the relationship
between God, human beings, and the world. It also shows how Dante's
Commedia engages with medieval understandings of the sacraments, an
idea which has been largely neglected in studies of Dante. Seen in
this way, the poet's engagement with liturgy is central to the
daring and highly original poetic project of the Commedia, shaping
its treatment of time, its engagement with theology, and its
portrayal of the soul's awakening to the condition of creation
itself.
Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache ,
Hecuba , and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic
standards that have won praise for her Alcestis , Medea ,
Hippolytus . Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and
political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis
of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her
notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for
the first time.
Cet ouvrage reunit une serie de travaux portant sur la prehistoire
et la protohis-toire de la Grece et des regions avoisinantes.
Presentes le temps d'une journee a l'Universite de Geneve, ils ont
pour but d'illustrer toute la diversite des etudes egeennes, que ce
soit sur le plan de la methode ou de l'etendue chronologique et
geographique. Ils melent ainsi archeologie et philologie, dans un
parcours qui va du Paleolithique au debut de l'Age du Fer et aborde
Chypre, l'Anatolie ou encore l'Italie.
Akhnaton, a pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty, is about to
challenge everything his people and culture hold dear in The Last
Pharaoh. Before his rule, Egyptians lived a life of slavery under
their rulers, who demanded abject submission. In a culture where
rulers are revered as gods, change comes slowly, if at all. The
pharaoh's grand vision of sweeping social reform is met with
violent hostility by the priesthood and every other power player in
the kingdom. When Akhnaton announces that he is, in fact, as mortal
and fallible as his subjects, his proclamation inspires rivalries
that would enthusiastically put his new mortality to the test.
Neighbors struggle with questions of faith, morality, and the
social order in Winter Dreams, a two-act play that could take place
in any small town in America. When a child preacher stirs up old
drama and rivalries, more questions than answers arise. Is he
really the voice of God, or are other forces at work? The New
Odyssey explores a darker future for humanity. In 1999-as the
flames of the disastrous Third World War cool, and the fourth
apocalyptic global war looms-a college professor summons Hesiod,
Homer, and Shakespeare. He argues passionately to enlist their help
in a bold plan to save humanity from its eventual destruction-at
the hand of womankind. If he can get these three minds from
humanity's past in on his scheme, there may be hope for mankind's
future yet.
Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual
issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known
texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius,
and Vergil. A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts
of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major
contributions to the discussion of Horace's Carmen IV 8 and IV 12,
along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian's Animula
vagula, as well as a new contribution on Livy's text at IV 20 in
connection with Cossus's spolia opima, and on Vergil's Aeneid 3.
147-152 and 11. 151-153. On Ennius, the author presents several new
ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220-22l, and in editing Horace, he
suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to
find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies, comparing
a conservative and a radical approach. Critica will be an important
resource for students and scholars of Latin language and
literature.
This book fills a void in the field of pre-modern literature
written in Persian. It is the first scholarly publication in
English language on and around the poet Nizami Ganjavi written by
important Western and Non-Western scholars, enriching the field
with an awareness of their knowledge and research interests. The
multidisciplinary volume initiates a much-needed dialogue it
initiates a much-needed dialogue between the metropolitan and
postcolonial academic points of view. By the example of Nizami's
poems it shows how different academic circles interpret Medieval
authors in relation to modern-day national identity and national
cultures. Unlike in Europe and USA, in the USSR citizenship and
ethnicity, like two modern official different criteria of identity,
became a stumbling block in the division of cultural heritage of
the past. Irredentism is a central topic in the post-Soviet Union
world and gives a voice to the peripheral rather than to the
metropolis with its colonial arguments. The richness and usefulness
of this volume is that the contributions that take this innovative
standpoint are put side by side with others, which remain within
the traditional literary analysis and examine Nizami's creative
thoughts on human, society, women, or justice.
Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a
historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians,
alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His
narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its
charm, wit, vigour, and sweetness (for which he was hailed as
'Attic Muse': Diogenes Laertius, 2.6.57). The Oeconomicus describes
Socrates conversing on the topic of successful management of one's
oikos (household, estate). The focus is a well-to-do Athenian
household, which proves a testing ground for the moral qualities or
'gentlemanliness' of the male head of household, but also a space
in which the role and agency of women turns out to be key.
Symposium shifts to the male space of the men's quarters of the
private home, to describe an evening of conversation and
entertainment at the house of an Athenian plutocrat. Far from being
simply a lighthearted affair, the conversation probes timeless
questions regarding wisdom, love, and female capacity, and over it
looms the deadly serious matter of Socrates' trial and death. Both
works are rich sources for Athenian social history of the Classical
period. Oeconomicus in particular offers insights on the role and
status of women in Ancient Athens. Xenophon doesn't, however,
passively reflect the social realities he saw around him or supply
snapshots of historical actuality.
This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level
(Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2, lines 40-249 and
the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Book 2, lines 268-317,
370-558, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a
detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to
be read in English for A Level. Book II of Virgil's Aeneid is the
story of how Troy fell and how Aeneas escaped with his family and
his city's gods. It is a narrative relayed in retrospect by Aeneas
as a refugee at the court of Queen Dido in Carthage, and the OCR
selection covers the book's first two thirds: the Wooden Horse
episode, and the chaos which ensues - including the dramatic murder
of King Priam. Virgil depicts war in all its ugly complexity, and
Aeneas' response to this - as combatant in Troy, as exile in
Carthage - is central to the poem's early exposition. Supporting
resources are available on the Companion Website:
https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026
This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level
set text prescriptions for 2024-26 giving full Greek text,
commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text
that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A
Level. The texts covered are: AS and A Level Groups 1&3
Herodotus, Histories, Book 1, 1-6, 8-13 and 19-22 Plato, Republic,
Book 1, 327a to 332b Homer, Iliad, Book 16, lines 20-47, 644-867
Euripides, Hippolytus, 284-361, 391-524 A Level Groups 2&4
Herodotus, Histories, Book 7: 34-35, 38-39, 45-52, 101-105 Plato,
Republic, Book 1, 336b to 337a7 and 338a4 to end of 342 Plutarch,
Life of Anthony, 76-86 Homer, Iliad, Book 24, lines 349-595
Euripides, Hippolytus, 601-624, 627-633, 638-662, 664-668, 682-731,
885-911, 914-1028, 1030-1035 Aristophanes, Frogs, 1-208 and 830-874
Supplementary resources are available on the Companion Website:
https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026.
Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully
captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale
of revenge and sacrifice. The Medea of Euripides is one of the
greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most
significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there
abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and
is willing to strike out against his new wife and family-even
slaughtering the sons she has born him. At its center is Medea
herself, a character who refuses definition: Is she a hero, a
witch, a psychopath, a goddess? All that can be said for certain is
that she is a woman who has loved, has suffered, and will stop at
nothing for vengeance. In this stunning translation, poet Charles
Martin captures the rhythms of Euripides' original text through
contemporary rhyme and meter that speak directly to modern readers.
An introduction by classicist and poet A.E. Stallings examines the
complex and multifaceted Medea in patriarchal ancient Greece.
Perfect in and out of the classroom as well as for theatrical
performance, this faithful translation succeeds like no other.
From the beginning, kings ruled Rome; Lucius Brutus established
freedom and the consulship. So wrote the Roman historian Tacitus in
the second century AD, but the view was orthodox. It is still
widely accepted today. But how could the Romans of later times have
possibly known anything about the origins of Rome, the rule and
subsequent expulsion of their kings or the creation of the Republic
when all those events took place centuries before anyone wrote any
account of them? And just how useful are those later accounts,
those few that happen to survive, when the Romans not only viewed
the past in light of the present but also retold stories of past
events in ways designed to meet contemporary needs? This book
attempts to assess what the Romans wrote about the early
development of their state. While it may not, in the end, be
possible to say very much about archaic Rome, it is certainly
possible to draw conclusions about later political ideas and their
influence on what the Romans said about their past, about the
writing of history at Rome and about the role that stories of past
events could play even centuries later.
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into
the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of
Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin
texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of
renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as
advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di
Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle (University
of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California,
Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova) Heinz-Gunther
Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen) Dirk Obbink
(University of Oxford) Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians
Universitat Munchen) Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge)
Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Formerly out-of-print
editions are offered as print-on-demand reprints. Furthermore, all
new books in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series are published as
eBooks. The older volumes of the series are being successively
digitized and made available as eBooks. If you are interested in
ordering an out-of-print edition, which hasn't been yet made
available as print-on-demand reprint, please contact us:
[email protected] All editions of Latin texts published in
the Bibliotheca Teubneriana are collected in the online database
BTL Online.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall; A
steed full stiff to guide, In broidered bridle all He worthily
bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous
writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and
published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed
by time: the classic story of a knight on a green steed challenging
Sir Gawain to a monumental wager, it is a strange tale full of
decapitations, seduction and magic. Soon to be brought to the big
screen, Sir Gawain is one of the earliest great stories of English
literature.
Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night addresses two closely
linked and increasingly studied issues: the nature of the relation
of Shakespeare's plays to Italian culture, and the technology of
modern theater invented in Renaissance Italy. The discovery of
forgotten works by Giovanni Lappoli, known as Pollastra, led to
publication in Italy in 1993 in a limited edition of the Italian
texts with supplemental scholarship by the authors, entitled
Romance and Aretine Humanism in Sienese Comedy. One of those texts,
the comedy Parthenio, has escaped the attention of theater
bibliographers, because it was quickly sold out in its time and
only a handful of copies are known to exist today. Yet it played an
important part in the birth of Italian Renaissance drama and of
modern comedy in general, in that it was the immediate predecessor
and source of Gl'Ingannati, arguably the most famous comedy of the
Italian Renaissance and certainly the most imitated, translated,
adapted all over Europe. The best known of its progeny is
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Much has been written in Italy and
England about Gl'Ingannati and Shakespeare's debt to it, but
nothing at all about Parthenio. This volume provides the first
English translation (with the original Italian on facing pages);
and presents for an international audience the theatrical
scholarship from the 1993 book Romance and Aretine Humanism in
Sienese Comedy, augmented with new findings.
The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while
consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people
against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they?
Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years later, and he
substantially revised them before publication, rewriting some
passages and adding others, all with the aim of justifying the
action he had taken against the conspirators and memorializing his
own role in the suppression of the conspiracy. How, then, should we
interpret these speeches as literature? Can we treat them as
representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them
merely as political pamphlets from a later time? In this, the first
book-length discussion of these famous speeches, D. H. Berry
clarifies what the speeches actually are and explains how he
believes we should approach them. In addition, the book contains a
full and up-to-date account of the Catilinarian conspiracy and a
survey of the influence that the story of Catiline has had on
writers such as Sallust and Virgil, Ben Jonson and Henrik Ibsen,
from antiquity to the present day.
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