The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander - 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 Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander write by Brian Oliver Murdoch. This book was released on 2019-05-27. The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the literary reception of the love-story of Hero and Leander and its popularity from classical times to the present in different genres, from epigram to epic, and including drama, opera, burlesques and modern experimental works.
The Myth of Hero and Leander
The Myth of Hero and Leander - 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 Myth of Hero and Leander write by Silvia Montiglio. This book was released on . The Myth of Hero and Leander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover's mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West. Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and eroticism, the author explores the origin of the legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages - notably in the writings of Christine de Pizan - and Renaissance; how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton."--
Musaeus' Hero and Leander
Musaeus' Hero and Leander - 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 Musaeus' Hero and Leander write by Silvia Montiglio. This book was released on 2020-05-04. Musaeus' Hero and Leander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new English translation of Musaeus' poem Hero and Leander, with the original Greek on the facing page, a substantial introduction and a detailed commentary. The tragic romance of Hero and Leander has had and still has a great appeal, inspiring countless writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians. The Introduction aims at situating the poem within its literary tradition and cultural context as well as at drawing its major themes and describing the salient features of its style. Because Hero and Leander enjoyed an immense and uninterrupted popularity, the Introduction also devotes a large section to the poem’s reception in literature, which crosses paths with the reception of the other main ancient poetic treatment of the legend, Ovid’s Heroides 18 and 19. The commentary, which follows the Greek text and its translation, is addressed to a variety of readers: the student and the scholar of Greek literature, as well as those of other literatures in which the poem has been inspirational. This work has no precedent in the English language. This new translation will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek and late antique literature, as well as those working on mythology and classical reception.
The Myth of Hero and Leander
The Myth of Hero and Leander - 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 Myth of Hero and Leander write by Silvia Montiglio. This book was released on 2017-11-01. The Myth of Hero and Leander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover's mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West. Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and eroticism, the author explores the origin of the legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages - notably in the writings of Christine de Pizan - and Renaissance; how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton.
A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe - 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 A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe write by Zara Martirosova Torlone. This book was released on 2017-02-06. A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English ]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity
