Sappho and 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 Sappho and Homer write by Melissa Mueller. This book was released on 2023-12-31. Sappho and Homer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings two of ancient Greece's most famous poets into conversation with contemporary theorists of gender, sexuality, and affect studies.
Homer in Performance
Homer in Performance - 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 in Performance write by Jonathan Ready. This book was released on 2018-08-13. Homer in Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts—performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it—are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters. The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore.
Poems of Sappho
Poems of Sappho - 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 Poems of Sappho write by Sappho. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Poems of Sappho available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.
Stung with Love
Stung with Love - 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 Stung with Love write by Sappho. This book was released on 2009-08-06. Stung with Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, and remembrance.
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours - 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 Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours write by Gregory Nagy. This book was released on 2020-01-10. The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
