This re-reading of the Odyssey - which attempts to map in detail the poem's overall structure - offers insights into the artistry of the mythic voyage and enriches our understanding of Homer's craftsmanship. The author uncovers an extended narrative pattern, repeated in full three times.
How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? The author proceeds from such fundamental concepts as author , text and reader , which he applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid and Catallus. He argues that allusion has no linguistic or semiotic basis.
Concerns the way we read - or rather, imagine we are listening to - ancient Greek and Latin poetry. This book shows how an understanding of the effects of word order and meter is vital for appreciating the meaning of classical poetry, composed for listening audiences.
A study of Catullus's influence on Horace, this work shows that the earlier poet was probably the important source of inspiration for Horace's Odes , the later author's magnum opus. By illustrating how Horace often found his own voice even as he acknowledged Catullus's genius, it guides us to an appreciation of the earlier poet as well.
The Roman poet Statius' 4th book of Silvae , published in AD 95, follows its preface with nine poems celebrating occasions from the building of a road to the gift-giving Saturnalian festival. This commentary includes Latin text and facing English translation.
Part of the Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies series, which includes works of interest and importance previously unpublished, long out-of-print, or otherwise inaccessible to students. This edition provides a reassessment of Cynewulf's Juliana , in the light of recent knowledge.
Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome is one of the most frequently read either in its entirety or in extracts
A close study of the Iliad reveals a wealth of powerful networks and intricate poetic motifs. This study argues that Homer created his work to be read aloud, and that its sophisticated techniques would have been more accessible to an aural audience.
Demonstrates how John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton - seventeenth century English poets - revised, reformed, and renewed the Judeo-Christian tradition of the sacred feminine. This title tells that they engage in literary projects that modify, expand upon, challenge, or rethink the natures of men and women.
This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a remarkable scholar who is also a practical man of the theater.
The stories presented in this text are part of ancient writings which many early Christians regarded as scripture, but which are not part of modern bibles. Such writings are called New Testament Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha (NTAP).