Brill's Companion to Aphrodite
Title | Brill's Companion to Aphrodite PDF eBook |
Author | Amy C. Smith |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2010-03-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047444507 |
Brill's Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite—one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped in four parts according to aspects of the goddess: 'Aphrodite’s Identity’; ‘Aphrodite's Companions and Relations’; ‘The Spread of Aphrodite’s Cults’ and ‘The Reception of the Goddess.’ Each part draws on literary and visual sources, incorporates Greek, Roman, and later material, and ranges across places and periods—from prehistoric Cyprus and the Near East to the antiquities market in 19th century France. This book therefore crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, as well as the multiple aspects and characteristics of the goddess
Brill's Companion to Theocritus
Title | Brill's Companion to Theocritus PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 852 |
Release | 2021-08-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004466711 |
Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
Title | Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception PDF eBook |
Author | Manuel Baumbach |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 666 |
Release | 2015-03-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004233059 |
In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term “epyllion” was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters were regarded as typically “epyllic” features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call “epyllia” were not considered a coherent genre, which seems to be an innovation of the late 18th century. The contributions in this book not only re-examine some important (and some lesser known) Greek and Latin primary texts, but also critically reconsider the theoretical discourses attached to it, and also sketch their literary and scholarly reception in the Byzantine and Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age.
Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis
Title | Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 904 |
Release | 2016-03-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 900431069X |
The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a ‘Christian’ hexameter Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no doubt the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity. Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by a large international group of scholars, experts in the field of archaic, Hellenistic, Imperial, and Christian poetry, as well as scholars of late antique Egypt, Greek mythology and religion, who explore the various aspects of Nonnus’ baroque poetry and its historical, religious and cultural background.
Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral
Title | Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Fantuzzi |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 2006-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047408535 |
This volume comprises articles by an international team of twenty-three scholars. The contributions focus on the historical genesis, stylistic and narrative features and evolution of pastoral, both as genre and mode, from Theocritus to the Byzantine period. Special attention has been paid to the idea of the 'invention of a fictionalized tradition', and to pastoral’s thematic and formal relationship with other literary genres. In their totality, the contributions, as well as offering a comprehensive overview of the more or less familiar issues and ideas discussed in connection with pastoral, point to new emphases, trends and insights in current scholarly work in this area. The volume is addressed to a wide range of students and scholars in classics, but much in it will also be of interest to those working in the fields of comparative and modern literatures.
A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets
Title | A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas E. Gerber |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004099449 |
This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, it presents the major scholarly debates affecting the reading of these poetic texts, such as the effect of genre, the question of the poetic persona, or the impact of modern literary theory.
Venus and Aphrodite
Title | Venus and Aphrodite PDF eBook |
Author | Bettany Hughes |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2020-09-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1541674243 |
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus -- and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. Proving that this fabled figure is so much more than an avatar of commercialized romance, historian Bettany Hughes reveals the remarkable lifestory of one of antiquity's most potent myths. Venus and Aphrodite brings together ancient art, mythology, and archaeological revelations to tell the story of human desire. From Mesopotamia to modern-day London, from Botticelli to Beyoncé, Hughes explains why this immortal goddess continues to entrance us today -- and how we trivialize her power at our peril.