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Adrian Kelly knows what it is to fail at things. One of the poorest
students in his final year at school, he finished in the bottom
5% of all students nationally sitting their final exams. He’s
failed at sports, education, just about everything. Failure
however, was only the start of his journey. In this book Adrian,
now a national sports champion, top lawyer and successful
entrepreneur, cuts through the myths and shares tips and insights
from the uber successful in business, sport and other arenas of
life. Success – real, sustainable success – is more accessible
than you think. The secret is to find congruence between action
and mindset, and that place of sustained success is different for
each of us. Provocative and practical, The Success Complex creates
a template for a new understanding of the pursuit of success that
truly fulfils.
No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status
as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as
one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a
continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The
Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an up-to-date survey of this
remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic
corpus has been significantly expanded in recent years thanks to
the discovery of new papyrus sources. Containing an introduction,
prologue and thirty-three chapters, the book examines Sappho's
historical, social, and literary contexts, the nature of her poetic
achievement, the transmission, loss, and rediscovery of her poetry,
and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from
ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.
All Greek is translated, making the volume accessible to everyone
interested in one of the most significant creative artists of all
time.
This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional
knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient
audience would have brought to a performance of this type of
narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly presents the text of Iliad
VIII next to an apparatus referring to the traditional units being
employed, and gives a brief description of their semantic impact.
He describes the referential curve of the narrative in a continuous
commentary, tabulates all the traditional units in a separate
lexicon of Homeric structure, and examines critical decisions
concerning the text in a discussion which employs the referential
method as a critical criterion. Two small appendices deal with
speech introduction formulae, and with the traditional function of
Here and Athene in early Greek epic poetry.
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the
study of antiquity - the interaction between Greece and the Ancient
Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing
on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told
about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the
individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields,
creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis.
Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole
range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed,
critiqued, and contextualised. While direct textual comparisons
still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here
turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of
interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and
integrity of all the ancient participants.
No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status
as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as
one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a
continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The
Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an up-to-date survey of this
remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic
corpus has been significantly expanded in recent years thanks to
the discovery of new papyrus sources. Containing an introduction,
prologue and thirty-three chapters, the book examines Sappho's
historical, social, and literary contexts, the nature of her poetic
achievement, the transmission, loss, and rediscovery of her poetry,
and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from
ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.
All Greek is translated, making the volume accessible to everyone
interested in one of the most significant creative artists of all
time.
The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in
antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely
lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial
portions of his poetry has enabled a reassessment of his
significance. These essays by leading scholars analyse different
aspects of his oeuvre: the relationship between Stesichorus and
epic, particularly his response to the Homeric poems; his narrative
technique and his handling of erotic themes; and his influence and
reception in fifth-century Athens, in Hellenistic scholarship and
poetry, in the Renaissance, and in poetry today. The volume as a
whole - the first dedicated to this author - amply demonstrates the
extraordinary creativity and continuing vitality of the poet from
Himera.
The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in
antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely
lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial
portions of his poetry has enabled a reassessment of his
significance. These essays by leading scholars analyse different
aspects of his oeuvre: the relationship between Stesichorus and
epic, particularly his response to the Homeric poems; his narrative
technique and his handling of erotic themes; and his influence and
reception in fifth-century Athens, in Hellenistic scholarship and
poetry, in the Renaissance, and in poetry today. The volume as a
whole - the first dedicated to this author - amply demonstrates the
extraordinary creativity and continuing vitality of the poet from
Himera.
In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character
of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of
human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the
'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus
to Athens, where he seeks succour and finds refuge, despite the
threatening arrival of his kinsman Creon, who tries to tempt and
then force the old man back under Theban control. Oedipus'
resistance shows a fierceness in no way dimmed by incapacity, but
he also refuses to aid his repentant son, Polyneices, in his coming
attack on Thebes, manifesting once more the passion and harshness
which mark his character so thoroughly. His mysterious death at the
end of the play, witnessed only by Theseus himself, seems the sole
fitting end for such an exceptional and problematic figure,
transforming Oedipus into one of the 'powerful dead' whose
beneficence towards Athens heralds a positive future for the city.
This useful companion provides background, context, a synopsis and
detailed analysis of the play.
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