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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674244191 |
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What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674241688 |
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The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization’s roots in Classical literature—a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2013-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674075429 |
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The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Gregory Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization’s roots in Classical literature, a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.
Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece
Author | : Claude Calame |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105124141628 |
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The Ancient Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. This book shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.
Kleos in a Minor Key
Author | : J. C. B. Petropoulos |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Education of princes in literature |
ISBN | : 0674055926 |
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The word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." A hero's kleos defines him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society in which Telemachos finds himself.
Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth century Greek East
Author | : Yannis Papadogiannakis |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : 0674060679 |
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This book--the first full-length study of Theodoret's Therapeutic for Hellenic Maladies--examines Theodoret's arguments against Greek religion, philosophy, and culture. Its analysis of the interaction between Hellenism and early Christian culture offers insights into the broader late Roman and early Byzantine world in the fifth century.
The Tears of Achilles
Author | : Hélène Monsacré |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Crying in literature |
ISBN | : 0674975685 |
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This study by Hélène Monsacré shows how Western ideals of inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision of Achilles and his warrior companions presented in the Homeric epics. Pursuing the paradox of the tearful fighter, Monsacré examines the interactions between men and women in the Homeric poems.
When the Gods Were Born
Author | : Carolina López-Ruiz |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674049462 |
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"With admirable erudition, Lopez-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic contact zone. She explains networks of circulation, shows creative uses of traditional material by peoples in motion, and radically transforms our understanding of ancient cosmogonies."---Page duBois, author of Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks --