Short Epics

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Short Epics

Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works: Astyanax, based on an episode in the Iliad; The Golden Fleece (Vellum Aureum); and Antonias, a short epic based on the life of Saint Anthony of Egypt. Antonias is the first Christian epic of the Renaissance, a precursor of Milton's Paradise Lost. This volume contains the first modern editions of the Latin text of Antonias and Astyanax.

ISBN: 0674014839

Author: Maffeo Vegio

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Rating: 4.33

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Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia

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Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia

This book is concerned with the complexity and difficulty of reading the Oresteia. It is not a traditional commentary, although it is often concerned with problems of interpretation and language, nor is it simply what is generally understood by a literary study, although it often discusses the wider themes of the narrative. It is a close reading of the text concentrating on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play. In particular, Simon Goldhill focuses on the text's interests in language and its control, in sexuality and sexual difference, and in the progression and description of events. Dr Goldhill links a sound philological knowledge with material drawn widely from modern literary theory and anthropological studies. The result is a challenging and provocative book, which offers for the serious student of Greek drama an exciting range of insights into one of the most important texts of the ancient world.

ISBN: 0521604303

Author: Simon Goldhill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Rating: 3.33

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Gecko Gathering PB

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Gecko Gathering PB

Check-to, to-kay. Check-to, to-kay. In a forest in Thailand, Gecko hears other geckos and climbs toward them.

ISBN: 1592492908

Author: Vanessa Giancamilli

Publisher: Soundprints

Rating: 0.00

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Ovid s "Metamorphoses"

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Ovid s "Metamorphoses"

Ovid's poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed into flowers, trees, stones and stars. Golding's vernacular version was the first major English translation.

ISBN: 0801870607

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Rating: 4.01

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Homeric Responses

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Homeric Responses

The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was Homer - a real or an ideal poet? When were the poems composed - at a single point in time, or over centuries of composition and performance? And how were the poems committed to writing? These uncertainties have been known as The Homeric Question, and many scholars, including Gregory Nagy, have sought to solve it. elaborate his theories regarding the oral composition and evolution of the Homeric epics. Building on his previous work in Homeric Questions and Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond and responding to some of his critics, he examines such issues as the importance of performance and the interaction between audience and poet in shaping the poetry; the role of the rhapsode (the performer of the poems) in the composition and transmission of the poetry; the irreversible mistakes and cross-references in the Iliad and Odyssey as evidences of artistic creativity; and the Iliadic description of the shield of Achilles as a pointer to the world outside the poem, the polis of the audience.

ISBN: 0292705549

Author: Gregory Nagy

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Rating: 4.33

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The Practice of the Wild: Essays

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The Practice of the Wild: Essays

Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. Future readers will come to see this book as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture. The nine essays in The Practice of the Wild reveal why Snyder has gone on to become one of America’s cultural leaders, comprehending things about our world before they were ever discussed in public. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, this collection of essays, first published in 1990, reflect the mature centerpiece of the author’s work and thought.

ISBN: 1593760167

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: Counterpoint

Rating: 4.19

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Metamorphoses

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Metamorphoses

Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. In this new, long-anticipated translation of Metamorphoses, Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Portions of the translation have already appeared in such publications as Arion, The Formalist, The Tennessee Quarterly, and TriQuarterly.

ISBN: 0393058107

Author: Ovid

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Rating: 4.01

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