Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI - 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 Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI write by Henri J.W. Wijsman. This book was released on 2017-09-18. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In spite of an increased interest over the last ten years in the 1st century AD Roman poet Valerius Flaccus, involving the production of several commentaries, part of his work Argonautica was still lacking a modern commentary. This book gives a full philological and literary commentary of the turbulent book VI of the Argonautica. The Silver Latin author's peculiar phraseology and choice of words is highlighted. Where possible the poem is interpreted in the context of the other Silver Latin epic poets.
Valerius Flaccus
Valerius Flaccus - 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 Valerius Flaccus write by Gaius Valerius Flaccus. This book was released on 1963. Valerius Flaccus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Voyage of the Argo
The Voyage of the Argo - 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 Voyage of the Argo write by Gaius Valerius Flaccus. This book was released on 1999-10-19. The Voyage of the Argo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own interpretation of the story in the first century of the Christian era, but he died before completing it. With The Voyage of the "Argo," the acclaimed poet and translator David Slavitt recovers for modern readers the only surviving work of this little-known writer. The result is an engaging rendition of Jason's adventures, of particular interest when compared to the Greek version of the story. While Apollonius' tale offers a subtle psychological study of Medea, Valerius Flaccus' achievement is to present Jason as a more complete and compelling heroic figure. Slavitt, for one, enjoyed the rediscovery immensely—and he invites his readers to do the same. "I am content to let my rendition into English speak for Valerius, but for those whom I imagine standing in an aisle of a library or bookstore, trying to decide, I can offer some reassurance. This piece is playful, unpredictable, oddly contrarian, sometimes almost mannerist. Valerius' description in book 8 of Medea's putting the serpent to sleep so Jason can filch the fleece involves a gesture no other Latin poet I know would have thought to try—a brief moment in Medea's head when she allows herself to feel sorry for the snake . . . It is this kind of droll surprise that drew me to undertake the translation of a work that is not, I freely confess, well known."—David Slavitt
Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome
Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome - 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 Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome write by Tim Stover. This book was released on 2012-07-05. Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a new interpretation of Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem. Stover's approach to the text is both formalist and historicist as he seeks not only to elucidate Flaccus' dynamic appropriation of Lucan, but also to associate the Argonautica's formal gestures within a specific socio-political context.
Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III
Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III - 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 Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III write by Valerius Flaccus. This book was released on 2015-10-14. Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is one of the most significant surviving works of Flavian epic, which has recently become much more popular as a field of study and teaching in Latin literature. This is the first commentary in English directly tailored to the needs of graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It provides an introduction to the major themes of the poem and the structure and content of Book III in particular which can function as an overview of the key features of Flavian epic. The detailed commentary on Book III discusses linguistic issues, intertextual and mythical allusions and thematic strands. The book consists of two major episodes in the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts which can be read together or independently of each other.
