Twayne's World Authors Series
Title | Twayne's World Authors Series PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Literature |
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Synopsis
Title | Synopsis PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew D. Dimarogonas |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1999-02-19 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9789057025778 |
Lists the scholarly publications including research and review journals, books, and monographs relating to classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval, and modern Greece. The 11 indexes include article title and author, books reviewed, theses and dissertations, books and authors, journals, names, locations, and subjects. The format continues that of the second volume. All the information has been programmed onto the disc in a high-level language, so that no other software is needed to read it, and in versions for DOS and Apple on each disc. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton
Title | Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton PDF eBook |
Author | Steven D. Smith |
Publisher | Barkhuis |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9077922288 |
I, Chariton of Aphrodisias, secretary of the rhetor Athenagorus, shall relate a love story that took place in Syracuse. Thus begins the earliest of the canonical Greek romances, the 1st century CE historical novel known as Callirhoe. Chariton's erotic tale is about the constancy of love in a world where virtue is always in danger of being corrupted. Chaereas and Callirhoe fall in love, but then are tragically separated after the heroine, believed dead, is buried alive. Each is eventually sold into slavery in the East, and Callirhoe herself contemplates the abortion of her unborn child when she is forced to marry a man she does not love. Hero and heroine are finally reunited in the foreign city of Babylon, only to be plunged into a war between Persia and Egypt.Classical Athenian historiography, philosophy, oratory, myth and drama were all integral in shaping this timely work of fiction set in the years following Athens' doomed Sicilian Expedition (415-413 BC). Chariton's novel is more, though, than just a romanticized representation of a famous episode from Greek history. The novel is clearly meant to be read for pleasure, but it also has a political edge. By imaginatively redeploying Athenian literature and political discourse in the construction of his fictional world, Chariton gives voice to contemporary concerns about freedom, tyranny, the ever-expanding meaning of Greek identity, and the role of Greek culture in a world dominated by Rome. This is a book that will be of value to anyone interested in Greek literature, the classical tradition, and the complex relationship between art and empire.
Aging in Ancient Greece
Title | Aging in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | James Robert Stillson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Aging |
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Biography Index
Title | Biography Index PDF eBook |
Author | Bea Joseph |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1036 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Biography |
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A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
The Troubling Play of Gender
Title | The Troubling Play of Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Stadter Fox |
Publisher | Susquehanna University Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781575910352 |
"Although these three modernist writers were not primarily playwrights, as expatriates they were interested in the Euripidean theme of women in exile: each independently chose to rewrite Euripides' Hippolytus, a play in which the protagonist is a woman in exile whose speech, writing, and passion are deeply problematic. Each author approaches the Euripidean material in a different way: Tsvetaeva focuses on gender in language, Yourcenar explores the gendering of a self, and H.D. performs the undoing of gendered oppositions."--BOOK JACKET.
Library Journal
Title | Library Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 620 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Libraries |
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