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Representation of myth in the novel, as a poetic, narrative and
aesthetic device, is one of the most illuminating issues in the
area of ancient religion, for such narratives investigate in
various ways fundamental problems that concern all human beings.
This volume brings together twenty contributions (six of them to a
Roundtable organized by Anton Bierl on myth), originally presented
at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient novel (ICAN
IV) held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing an interdisciplinary
approach and putting together different methodological tools
(intertextual, psychological, and anthropological), each offers a
illuminating investigation of mythical discourse as presented in
the text or texts under discussion. The collection as a whole
demonstrates the exemplary and transgressive significance of myth
and its metaphorical meaning in a genre that to some extent can be
considered a modernized and secular form of myth that focuses on
the quintessential question of love.
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Prolegomena (Hardcover)
Stuart Douglas Olson; Contributions by Anton Bierl, Fritz Graf, Irene de Jong, Joachim Latacz, …
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R3,247
Discovery Miles 32 470
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The Prolegomena provide an introduction to the Basler Iliad
commentary. The volume includes essays on the history of Iliad
commentaries and the text, formulaic language and the oral
tradition, grammar, meter, characters, plot and chronological
structure, narrative technique, and developments in Homeric
criticism, as well as an Index of Mycenaean words with brief
explanations.
The series MythosEikonPoiesis begins with the publication of
contributions to an international conference held at Castelen-Augst
near Basle. The conference laid new foundations in examining the
interdependence of myth, ritual and Greek literature in many
different genres (Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Presocratic and
Platonic philosophy, tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, historiography,
Hellenistic poetry, and the novel) with regard to their textual
structure and poetics. Working in interdisciplinary cooperation,
some participants also direct their attention towards Egypt, the
Near East, Rome, and to the reception of these poetological
principles in modern literature.
The series MythosEikonPoiesis begins with the publication of
contributions to an international conference held at Castelen-Augst
near Basle. The conference laid new foundations in examining the
interdependence of myth, ritual and Greek literature in many
different genres (Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Presocratic and
Platonic philosophy, tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, historiography,
Hellenistic poetry, and the novel) with regard to their textual
structure and poetics. Working in interdisciplinary cooperation,
some participants also direct their attention towards Egypt, the
Near East, Rome, and to the reception of these poetological
principles in modern literature.
The volume presented here is a collection of the contributions to
an authora (TM)s colloquium with Walter Burkert, which was held in
November 2007 in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at the
University of Bielefeld. Well known experts looked in detail at the
work of the internationally renowned scholar of Greek. In his
epochal cultural-scientific studies focusing on the origins of
human co-existence in rites, on violence, sacrifice, guilt and
horrific scenarios of death, Burkert approached questions of
biological behavioural research, anthropology and aggression
theory, and developed an enormous intellectual impact that reached
beyond classical and religious studies.
Die Herausforderung durch "das Neue" hat sich zu Beginn des 21.
Jahrhunderts noch einmal entscheidend verschArft. Bio-, Nano- und
Medienwissenschaftler verkA1/4nden zum wiederholten Male
VerAnderungen, die das Gesicht und die Ordnung der "Welt"
tiefgreifend umgestalten werden. Futurologen sprechen sogar von
einer "zweiten Evolution," die sich bereits jetzt ankA1/4ndige. Die
Wahrnehmung des Neuen ist aber selbst eine historische Variable.
Deshalb werden in diesem Bande zwei paradigmatische Typen von
Gesellschaften auf ihren Umfang mit dem Neuen hin untersucht: eine
traditionale, die Antike, und eine modernisierende, die
Renaissance. Inhaltlich geht es in beiden Bereichen um Fragen der
Kunst- und Literaturtheorie, der Asthetischen und politischen
Praxis, der gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen, die das Neue
begleiten, bis hin zu dem direkten Vergleich zweier herausragender
Gestalten der beiden Epochen: Augustus und Cosimo di Medici. Dabei
werden in den AufsAtzen von Altertumswissenschaftlern und
Spezialisten fA1/4r die Renaissance Konzepte unterschiedlicher
historischer Gesellschaften nach ihren mentalen Dispositionen und
Methoden befragt, um TraditionsbrA1/4che, Innovationen sowie
Imaginationen "des Neuen" zu reflektieren.
In "Antike Literatur in neuer Deutung," a book dedicated to Joachim
Latacz, a group of scholars of high international standing present
the most recent developments and acquirements in several important
areas of ancient literature und philosophy. The first eight
contributions, dealing with Homeric studies, are followed by a
number of essays on presocratic philosophy, Greek tragedy and
comedy, the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Hellenistic epic,
Roman literature, and papyrology.
In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches
in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old
Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also
serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the
comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes'
"Thesmophoriazusae" shows that ritual is indeed present in both the
micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized
remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing
performative choral culture. The chorus members do play a role
within the dramatic plot, but they simultaneously refer to their
own performance in the here and now and to their function as
participants in a ritual. Bierl's investigation also includes an
unparalleled treatment of the phallic songs preserved by Semos.
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