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Author: Gavin Betts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0429620306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part of a curious and previously neglected corner of literature.
Author: Gavin Betts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780815312796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part of a curious and previously neglected corner of literature. While they owe much to the ancient and medieval Greek novel, the romances have obviously been influenced by Western romances, which were introduced to the Greek world after the capture of Constantinople in 1204 to the Fourth Crusade. Their position at the beginning of modern Greek literature is due in no small part to their disregard of the stuffy formalism of many Byzantine authors. The three poems translated here are original compositions, not adaptations of Western romance. The mannered presentation of courtly love which they show, sometimes with a distinctive Byzantine flavor, provides a fascinating reinterpretation of the Western tradition. A general introduction examines the genre and the unusual circumstances in which it began. Individual introductions analyze the particular features and problems of each poem.
Author: Panagiotis A. Agapitos
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9788772891637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study of Medieval Greek Romance
Author: Roderick Beaton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1134810296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published by CUP in 1989, The Medieval Greek Romance provides basic information for the non-specialist about Greek fiction during the period 1071-1453, as well as proposing new solutions to problems that have vexed previous generations of scholars. Roderick Beaton applies sophisticated methods of literary analysis to the material, and the bridges of the artificial gap which has separated `Byzantine'literature, in a form of ancient Greek as both homogenous and of a high level of literary sophistication. Throughout, consideration is given to relations and interconnections with similar literature in western Europe. As most of the texts discussed are not available in English translation, the argument is illustrated by lucid plot summaries and extensive quotation (accompanied by literal English renderings). For this edition, The Medieval Greek Romance has been revised throughout and expanded with the addition of an `Afterword' which assesses and responds to recent work on the subject.
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Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780023487101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ben Edwin Perry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Adam J. Goldwyn
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-29
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 3319692038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.
Author: Richard Stoneman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1991-04-25
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0141907118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, The Greek Alexander Myth depicts the life and adventures of one of history's greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism.
