Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy
Author: Hermann Fränkel
Publisher: Irvington Pub
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780829009859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hermann Fränkel
Publisher: Irvington Pub
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780829009859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hermann Fränkel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alex Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1107086590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Elizabeth Irwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-08-11
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521851787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from archaic Greek Poetry, and the role this poetry had in articulating the social and political realities and ideologies of that period. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the stance of exhortation adopted in early Greek elegy, and to the political poetry of Solon; it also stresses the importance of considering performance context as a critical factor in interpreting the political expressions of this poetry. Part I of this study argues that the singing of elegiac paraenesis in the élite symposium reflects the attempt of symposiasts to assert a heroic identity for themselves within this wider polis community. Parts II and III turn to the political poetry of Solon: Part II demonstrates how the elegy of Solon both confirms the existence of this élite practise, and subverts it, drawing on the poetic traditions of epic and Hesiod to further different political aims; Part III looks beyond Solon's appropriations of poetic traditions to argue for another influence on Solon's political poetry, that of tyranny. The book concludes by exploring the implications of this reading of elegy for a political interpretation of the Homeric epics in Athens.
Author: Emily Vermeule
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0520310829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their poetic and artistic energy to exploring themes of death. Vermeule examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the value of heroic death in battle, the quest for immortality, the linked powers of death, sleep, and love, and more. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Author: Jennifer Lobo Meeks
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 3838214250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy examines the role that allegory plays in Greek thought, particularly in the transition from the mythic tradition of the archaic poets to the philosophical traditions of the Presocratics and Plato. It explores how a mode of speech that "says one thing, but means another" is integral to philosophy, which otherwise seeks to achieve clarity and precision in its discourse. By providing the early Greek thinkers with a way of defending and appropriating the poetic wisdom of their predecessors, allegory enables philosophy to locate and recover its own origins in the mythic tradition. Allegory allows philosophy simultaneously to move beyond mythos and express the whole in terms of logos, a rational account in which reality is represented in a more abstract and universal way than myth allows.
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-03-11
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521539920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.
Author: Friedrich Schlegel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001-01-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0791491382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While ostensibly an examination of classical Greek poetry, Friedrich Schlegel's On the Study of Greek Poetry is a signal document in the development of German Romantic aesthetics. In it, Schlegel outlines the development of classical and post-classical cultures, showing clearly that an entirely new mode of cultural production is necessary. On the Study of Greek Poetry has been at the center of the discussions of German Romanticism by German scholars such as Peter Szondi and Manfred Frank, and this translation makes an important text in the genesis of German Romanticism available for the first time in English. The book also includes a critical introduction as well as annotations that elucidate Schlegel's numerous allusions.