Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds - 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 Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds write by Oliver Taplin. This book was released on 2000. Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds - 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 Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds write by Lauren Curtis. This book was released on 2021-10-28. Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combines multiple theoretical perspectives and diverse media to examine the relation between music and memory in ancient Greece and Rome.
Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds - 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 Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds write by Teresa Morgan. This book was released on 1998. Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including the first systematic comparison of literary sources with the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, Teresa Morgan shows how education developed from a loose repertoire of practices in classical Greece into a coherent system spanning the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. She examines the teaching of literature, grammar and rhetoric across a range of social groups and proposes a model of how the system was able both to maintain its coherence and to accommodate pupils' widely different backgrounds, needs and expectations. In addition Dr Morgan explores Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development, showing how educationalists claimed to turn the raw material of humanity into good citizens and leaders of society.
Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds - 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 Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds write by Richard Evans. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were inspired by Josiah Ober’s seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989). Indeed the influence this work has had on later research in all aspects of the Greek and Roman world is reflected by the diversity of the papers collected here, which take their cue and starting point from the argument that, in Ober’s words (1989, 338): ‘Rhetorical communication between masses and elites... was a primary means by which the strategic ends of social stability and political order were achieved.’ However, the contributors to the volume have also sought to build further on such conclusions and to offer new perceptions about a spread of issues affecting mass and elite interaction in a far wider number of locations around the ancient Mediterranean over a much longer chronological span. Thus the conclusions here suggest that once the concept of mass and elite was established in the minds of Greeks and later Romans it became a universal component of political life and from there was easily transferred to economic activity or religion. In casting the net beyond the confines of Athens (although the city is also represented here) to – amongst others – Syracuse, the cities of Asia Minor, Pompeii and Rome, and to literary and philosophical discourse, in each instance that interplay between the wider body of the community and the hierarchically privileged can be shown to have governed and directed the thoughts and actions of the participants.
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds - 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 Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds write by Daniel Ogden. This book was released on 2002. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
