Punica, with English translation by J.D. Duff

Punica, with English translation by J.D. Duff
Title Punica, with English translation by J.D. Duff PDF eBook
Author Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus
Publisher
Pages 488
Release 1949
Genre Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C.
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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid

The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid
Title The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid PDF eBook
Author Julene Abad Del Vecchio
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 277
Release 2024-07-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198895224

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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several new readings of the Achilleid in relation to its literary inheritance, its gender dynamics, and its generic tensions. This volume delves beneath the surface of a story that ostensibly deals with a light subject matter—the cross-dressing of a young Achilles on Scyros—to offer an in-depth examination of the poem's relationship to its epic and tragic precursors, and to explore its more serious themes. It is shown to challenge traditional epic narratives, examine Achilles' complex familial relationships and his deviant and transgressive heroism, highlight the tragic character of Thetis, and provide glimpses of the horrors that the cataclysmic Trojan War will beget. By looking into Statius' wide-ranging dialogue with his literary predecessors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Seneca, as well as Statius' previous epic magnum opus, the Thebaid, the multidimensional characterisations of Achilles and other of the poem's key characters, such as Ulysses, Calchas, and Thetis are investigated. Far from simply representing a shameful but essentially humorous cross-dressing episode in Achilles' life that is destined to be forgotten, the Achilleid can be seen to challenge the very fabric of epic by probing the validity and authority of its literary tradition, as well as highlighting its highly innovative and experimental nature.

The Classical Roman Reader

The Classical Roman Reader
Title The Classical Roman Reader PDF eBook
Author Kenneth John Atchity
Publisher
Pages 488
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 9780195127409

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A collection of the finest and most important writing of the Roman period, this title gives the reader access to a diversity of texts that shaped Roman thinking and provided the foundations of Western culture. 49 halftones.

Structures of Epic Poetry

Structures of Epic Poetry
Title Structures of Epic Poetry PDF eBook
Author Christiane Reitz
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 2760
Release 2019-12-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110492598

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This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.

Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299

Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299
Title Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299 PDF eBook
Author Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher Open Book Publishers
Pages 322
Release 2012
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1909254150

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Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in the human realm, unfolds within the larger horizon of a supernatural sphere, dominated by power-conscious divinities. Dido is Aeneas' most significant other, and in their encounter Virgil explores timeless themes of love and loyalty, fate and fortune, the justice of the gods, imperial ambition and its victims, and ethnic differences. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study questions, a commentary, and interpretative essays. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Virgil's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

Flavian Epic Interactions

Flavian Epic Interactions
Title Flavian Epic Interactions PDF eBook
Author Gesine Manuwald
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 460
Release 2013-08-29
Genre History
ISBN 3110314304

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This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman literary history: the survival of four epic poems from the same period (Argonautica; Thebaid, Achilleid; Punica). The interactions of these poems with each other and their contemporary context are explored by over 20 experts and emerging scholars. Topics studied include the political dimension of the epics, their use of epic themes and techniques and their intertextual relationship among each other and to predecessors. The recent upsurge of interest in Flavian epic has been focussed on the analysis of individual works. Looking at these poems together now allows the appreciation of their similarities and nuanced differences in the light of their shared position in literary and political history and gives insights into the literary culture of the period. The different approaches and backgrounds of the contributors ensure the presentation of a range of viewpoints. Together they offer new perspectives to the still increasing readership of Flavian epic poetry but also to anyone interested in the epic genre within Roman literature or other cultures more generally.

The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence

The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence
Title The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence PDF eBook
Author Dirk G.J. Panhuis
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 188
Release 1982-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027282145

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This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language. Thus far many observations have been made on Latin word order, particularly within the noun phrase. Yet a more systematic investigation with respect to the order of the sentence consituents was still lacking, that is, till the arrival of the current monograph The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A Study of Latin Word Order. This excellent research monograph on the order of the sentence consituents in a particular, typologically ambivalent language, will be welcomed by both Latinists and general linguists.