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The Folds of Olympus
Author | : Jason König |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2022-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691201290 |
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A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millennium—from Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture. Jason König charts the importance of mountains in religion and pilgrimage, the aesthetic vision of mountains in art and literature, the place of mountains in conquest and warfare, and representations of mountain life. He shows how mountains were central to the way in which the inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean understood the boundaries between the divine and the human, and the limits of human knowledge and control. He also argues that there is more continuity than normally assumed between ancient descriptions of mountains and modern accounts of the picturesque and the sublime. Offering a unique perspective on the history of classical culture, The Folds of Olympus is also a resoundingly original contribution to the literature on mountains.
A Companion to Greek Religion
Author | : Daniel Ogden |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444334173 |
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This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Author | : Athanassios Vergados |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110259704 |
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The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo’s cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher’s 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive matters. It is preceded by a detailed introduction that addresses the Hymn’s ideas on poetry and music, the poem’s humour, the Hymn’s relation to other archaic hexameter literature both in thematic and technical aspects, the poem’s reception in later literature, its structure, the issue of its date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. The critical text, based on F. Càssola’s edition, is equipped with an apparatus of formulaic parallels in archaic hexameter poetry as well as possible verbal echoes in later literature.
When Young Men Die
Author | : Duane Robert Pierson |
Publsiher | : Integritas Publishing |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : War poetry |
ISBN | : 1604020482 |
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The Structure of the Olympic Mountains Washington
Author | : Rowland W. Tabor,Wallace Martin Cady |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105007759132 |
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U S Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1078 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055350543 |
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : MINN:31951P00166473Z |
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Homer on Life and Death
Author | : Jasper Griffin |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198140266 |
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This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profound.