Didactic Poetry Of Greece Rome And Beyond
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Didactic Poetry of Greece Rome and Beyond
Author | : Lilah Grace Canevaro,Donncha O'Rourke |
Publsiher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781910589915 |
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Here a team of established scholars offers new perspectives on poetic texts of wisdom, learning and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. In previous scholarship, a drive to classify Greek and Latin didactic poetry has engaged with the near-total absence in ancient literary criticism of explicit discussion of didactic as a discrete genre. The present volume approaches didactic poetry from different perspectives: the diachronic, mapping the development of didactic through changing social and political landscapes (from Homer and Hesiod to Neo-Latin didactic); and the comparative, setting the Graeco-Roman tradition against a wider backdrop (including ancient near-eastern and contemporary African traditions). The issues raised include knowledge in its relation to power; the cognitive strategies of the didactic text; ethics and poetics; the interplay of obscurity and clarity, playfulness and solemnity; the authority of the teacher.
Didactic Literature in the Roman World
Author | : T. H. M. Gellar-Goad,Christopher B. Polt |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2023-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000922738 |
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This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates the varied, shifting roles that literature of teaching and learning played during this period. Instruction was of special interest in the culture and literature of the late Roman Republic and the Age of Augustus, as attitudes towards education found complex, fluid, and multivalent expressions. The era saw a didactic boom, a cottage industry whose surviving authors include Vergil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Varro, Germanicus, and Grattius, who are all reexamined here. The contributors to this volume bring fresh approaches to the study of educational literature from the end of the Roman Republic and early Empire, and their essays discover unexpected connections between familiar authors. Chapters explore, interrogate, and revise some aspect of our understanding of these generic and modal boundaries, while considering understudied points of contact between art and education, poetry and prose, and literature and philosophy, among others. Altogether, the volume shows how lively, experimental, and intertextual the didactic ethos of this period is, and how deeply it engages with social, political, and philosophical questions that are of critical importance to contemporary Rome and of enduring interest into the modern world. Didactic Literature in the Roman World is of interest to students and scholars of Latin literature, particularly the late Republic and early Empire, and of Classics more broadly. In addition, the volume’s focus on didactic poetry and prose appeals to those working on literature outside of Classics and on intellectual history.
Teaching through Images
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2021-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004501584 |
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In this volume an international team of early career and more established scholars explores the ways in which didactic poets of Greco-Roman antiquity use imagery, broadly defined, in order to convey their teaching.
Epic Lessons
Author | : Peter Toohey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135035341 |
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic 'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review
Approaches to Lucretius
Author | : Donncha O'Rourke |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-07-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781108421966 |
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Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Classics and Irish Politics 1916 2016
Author | : Isabelle Torrance,Donncha O'Rourke |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780198864486 |
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This interdisciplinary collection, written by experts in their fields, addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; and the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models.
Philosophy in Ovid Ovid as Philosopher
Author | : Gareth Williams,Katharina Volk |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780197610336 |
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"This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been perceived as a feature subordinate to Ovid's larger literary agenda; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of philosophical sources and ideas. This book counters this tendency by (i) considering Ovid's seriousness of engagement with, and his possible critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works; (ii) questioning the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary" in the first place; (iii) exploring the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas; and (iv) investigating the case to be made for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental"--
A Literary History of Latin English Poetry
Author | : Victoria Moul |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2022-07-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108135573 |
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Victoria Moul's groundbreaking study uncovers one of the most important features of early modern English poetry: its bilingualism. The first guide to a forgotten literary landscape, this book considers the vast quantities of poetry that were written and read in both Latin and English from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Introducing readers to a host of new authors and drawing on hundreds of manuscript as well as print sources, it also reinterprets a series of landmarks in English poetry within a bilingual literary context. Ranging from Tottel's miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts, via Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton and Cowley, this revelatory survey shows how the forms and fashions of contemporary Latin verse informed key developments in English poetry. As the complex, highly creative interactions between the two languages are revealed, the work reshapes our understanding of what 'English' literary history means.