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Silloi
Author | : Dee L. Clayman |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110220803 |
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Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study of Timons work in English, and includes a new reconstruction of his most influential poem Silloi . All of the extant fragments are translated and discussed as literature rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. The book concludes with a definition of "skeptical aesthetics" that demonstrates the importance of Timon and early Skepticism to the most influential Hellenistic poets: Callimachus, Theocritus and.
Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC AD 2007
Author | : Edith Hall,Amanda Wrigley |
Publsiher | : MHRA |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781904350613 |
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Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.
Greek and Roman Actors
Author | : P. E. Easterling,Edith Hall |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2002-09-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521651409 |
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This collection of twenty essays examines the art, profession and idea of the actor in Greek and Roman antiquity, and has been commissioned and arranged to cast as much interdisciplinary and transhistorical light as possible on these elusive but fascinating ancient professionals. It covers a chronological span from the sixth century BC to Byzantium (and even beyond to the way that ancient actors have influenced the arts from the Renaissance to the twentieth century) and stresses the huge geographical spread of ancient actors. Some essays focus on particular themes, such as the evidence for women actors or the impact of acting on the presentation of suicide in literature; others offer completely new evidence, such as graffiti relating to actors in Asia Minor; others ask new questions, such as what subjective experience can be reconstructed for the ancient actor. There are numerous illustrations and all Greek and Latin passages are translated.
Greek Buddha
Author | : Christopher I. Beckwith |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691176321 |
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Presents a history of early Buddhism based solely on dateable artefacts and archaeology rather than received tradition, much of which data is provided by studying Pyrrho's history
The Vanished Library
Author | : Luciano Canfora |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520072553 |
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Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.
From Epicurus to Epictetus
Author | : A. A. Long |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2006-09-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191535383 |
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A.A. Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy, presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods—-Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and politics, psychology, epistemology, and cosmology. In From Epicurus to Epictetus, Long's focus is on the distinctive contributions and methodologies of individual thinkers, notably Epicurus, Zeno, Pyrrho, Arcesilaus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, and Epictetus. Placing their philosophy in its cultural context, and considering it in relation to the earlier ideas of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, he invites his readers to imagine themselves choosing between Stoicism and Epicureanism as philosophies of life. All but one of these pieces has been previously published in periodicals or conference volumes, but the author has revised and updated everything, and has also added postscripts to many of the essays. This is a book not only for scholars and experts but also, thanks to the author's accessible style, for everyone interested in understanding the legacy and continuing relevance of ancient thought.
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism
Author | : Richard Arnot Home Bett |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2010-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521874762 |
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A comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles
Author | : Ashley Bacchi |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004426078 |
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In Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles, Ashley L. Bacchi reclaims the importance of the Sibyl as a female voice of prophecy, revealing intertextual references and political commentary on second-century events in Ptolemaic Egypt.