Ovid and Hesiod - 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 Ovid and Hesiod write by Ioannis Ziogas. This book was released on 2013-04-11. Ovid and Hesiod available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with Hesiod's themes is central to Ovid's poetic world. As a poet who praised women instead of men and opted for stylistic delicacy instead of epic grandeur, Hesiod is always contrasted with Homer. Ovid revives this epic rivalry by setting the Hesiodic character of his Metamorphoses against the Homeric character of Virgil's Aeneid. Dr Ziogas explores not only Ovid's intertextual engagement with Hesiod's works but also his dialogue with the rich scholarly, philosophical and literary tradition of Hesiodic reception. An important contribution to the study of Ovid and the wider poetry of the Augustan age, the book also forms an excellent case study in how the reception of previous traditions can become the driving force of poetic creation.
Ovid and Hesiod
Ovid and Hesiod - 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 Ovid and Hesiod write by Ioannis Ziogas. This book was released on 2013-04-11. Ovid and Hesiod available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.
Creation and Chaos
Creation and Chaos - 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 Creation and Chaos write by JoAnn Scurlock. This book was released on 2013-10-14. Creation and Chaos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hermann Gunkel was a scholar in the generation of the origins of Assyriology, the spectacular discovery by George Smith of fragments of the “Chaldean Genesis,” and the Babel-Bibel debate. Gunkel’s thesis, inspired by materials supplied to him by the Assyriologist Heinrich Zimmern, was to take the Chaoskampf motif of Revelation as an event that would not only occur at the end of the world but had already happened at the beginning, before Creation. In other words, in this theory, one imagines God in Genesis 1 as first having battled Rahab, Leviathan, and Yam (the forces of Chaos) in a grand battle, and only then beginning to create. The problem with Gunkel’s theory is that it did not simply identify common elements in the mythologies of the ancient Near East but imposed upon them a structure dictating the relationships between the elements, a structure that was based on inadequate knowledge and a forced interpretation of his sources. On the other hand, one is not entitled to insist that there was no cultural conversation among peoples who spent the better part of several millennia trading with, fighting, and conquering one another. Creation and Chaos attempts to address some of these issues. The contributions are organized into five sections that address various aspects of the issues raised by Gunekl’s theories.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses - 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 Metamorphoses write by Ovid. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Metamorphoses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "It is the single most important work of poetry in ancient history" - M. L. Andres, author of 'A Simple but Effective Strategy for Success' & founder of The Block Bard. Ovid's 15-book epic, written in exquisite Latin hexameter, is a rollercoaster of a read. Beginning with the creation of the world, and ending with Rome in his own lifetime, the Metamorphoses drags the reader through time and space, from beginnings to endings, from life to death, from moments of delicious joy to episodes of depravity and abjection.The madness and chaos of some 250 stories, spanning around 700 lines of poetry per book, are woven together by the theme of metamorphosis or transformation. The artistic dexterity involved in pulling off this literary feat is testimony to Ovid's skill and ambition as a poet. This accomplishment also goes a long way in explaining the rightful place the Metamorphoses holds within the canon of classical literature, placed as it is beside other great epics of Mediterranean antiquity such as the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid.
Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII
Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII - 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 Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII write by Ovid. This book was released on 1960. Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
