Twayne's World Authors Series

Twayne's World Authors Series
Title Twayne's World Authors Series PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 168
Release 1972
Genre Literature
ISBN

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Synopsis

Synopsis
Title Synopsis PDF eBook
Author Andrew D. Dimarogonas
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 448
Release 1999-02-19
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9789057025778

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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

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

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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

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

Biography Index
Title Biography Index PDF eBook
Author Bea Joseph
Publisher
Pages 1036
Release 1977
Genre Biography
ISBN

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A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.

The Troubling Play of Gender

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

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"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

Library Journal
Title Library Journal PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 620
Release 1974
Genre Libraries
ISBN

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