Kleos in a Minor Key - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kleos in a Minor Key write by J. C. B. Petropoulos. This book was released on 2011. Kleos in a Minor Key available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." A hero's kleos defines him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society in which Telemachos finds himself.
Homer
Homer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homer write by Jonathan S. Burgess. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Homer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that- while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius- even in the ancien world nobody knew who he was. As a result, the myth-maker became the subject of myth. For the satirist Lucian (c.125-180 CE) he ws a captive Babylonian. Other traditions have Homer born in Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, or portray him as a blind and wandering minstrel. In his new and authoritative introduction, Jonathan S. Burgess addresses fundamental questions of provenance and authorship. Besides conveying why these epics have been cherished down the ages, he discusses their historical sources and the possible impact on the Iliad and Odyssey of Indo-European, Near Eastern and folktale influences. Tracing their transmission through the ancient, medieval and modern periods, the author further examines questions of theory and reception.
Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Reading Homer’s Odyssey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Homer’s Odyssey write by Kostas Myrsiades. This book was released on 2019-04-05. Reading Homer’s Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading Homer's Odyssey is a book by book commentary on the epic's major themes. Each of the epic's 24 books are divided into sections to stress the length and the importance placed on specific topics and episodes. Footnotes are provided throughout to clarify and complete myths that Homer leaves unfinished, to explain certain terms and phrases, and to provide background information whenever necessary. Additionally, there is a bibliography on the Odyssey, as well as bibliographies that accompany each book's commentary.
Para-narratives in the Odyssey
Para-narratives in the Odyssey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Para-narratives in the Odyssey write by Maureen Joan Alden. This book was released on 2017. Para-narratives in the Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Para-Narratives in the Odyssey is the first full-length study in English of the function and significance of secondary 'para-narratives' in the poem and their relationship to its main story. Entertaining in their own right, they create illuminating parallels to their immediate context and enhance our understanding of the central narrative.
The Sculptor and his Stone
The Sculptor and his Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sculptor and his Stone write by Chrysostomos. This book was released on 2017-01-26. The Sculptor and his Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues for the inseparability of classical Hellenism from the Greek patristic tradition from a distinctly Eastern Orthodox perspective. Postulating a common striving for truth in both domains, it places emphasis on the contributions of theancients and Greek paideia to Christian learning and culture. In the spirit of the late Werner Jaeger, the essays contained in the volume provide a fruitful strategy for looking anew at the Greek classical world and Christianity through the eyes of the Greek Fathers, the direct inheritors of the ancient Greek worldview. Collectively, the author and contributors excellently demonstrate that, conflated with the visionary insights of the Jewish prophets and of Jewish messianism, the wisdom of the ancients served to pave the way for the unfolding of the fullness of Christian teaching and its spiritually enlightening revelation.
