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Author: Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Lisa Maurizio Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199782833 Category : Languages : en Pages : 712
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"Written for the way instructors teach and students learn, Classical Mythology in Context provides a truly contextualized treatment of classical myth that combines ancient sources, comparative perspectives, and modern and theoretical interpretations"--
Author: Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Lisa Maurizio Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199782833 Category : Languages : en Pages : 712
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"Written for the way instructors teach and students learn, Classical Mythology in Context provides a truly contextualized treatment of classical myth that combines ancient sources, comparative perspectives, and modern and theoretical interpretations"--
Author: Vanda Zajko Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1444339605 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 496
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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples
Author: Barry B. Powell Publisher: Prentice Hall ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 694
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Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. The material has been rearranged to make it easier to find and the new edition has been streamlined. It features fresh translations, numerous illustrations (ancient and modern) of classical myths and legends, and commentary that emphasizes the anthropological, historical, religious, sociological, and economic contexts in which the myths were told. It also provides a cultural context so that readers can see how mythology has influenced the world and how it continues to influence society today.
Author: Mark William Padilla Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498563511 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 412
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This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry, and philosophy.
Author: Barry B. Powell Publisher: Longman Publishing Group ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 229
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An essential reference for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation of classical mythology, this unique guide offers original source material on the social and historical background, interpretation, and commentary on major literary books on Greek myth—such as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, the historians, Ovid, Vergil, and in Greek art. Written in a clear and lucid manner, the book offers fresh and original interpretations based on the latest scholarship, and comes organized into three distinct parts: I: Definitions and Interpretations (devoted to theoretical issues); II: Background (to fill in information essential to understanding myth); and III: Themes (chapters directed toward specific topics in the study of myth). For general readers of English literature and/or classical mythology.
Author: Ken Dowden Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118785169 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 672
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A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts Includes coverage of Greek myth’s intersection with history, philosophy and religion Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece
Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Publisher: ISBN: 0804728100 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 314
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This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did poets use to integrate classical subject matter into their own texts? Was a special interpretive tradition created for vernacular texts? In Chapter 1, the author shows how Latin epic texts were reoriented for political purposes in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm, gaining new depth by the addition of Ovidian elements that evoked threats of a disorder different from the struggles of classical epic. Chapter 2 analyzes the complex use of myth in the thirteenth-century Roman de la Rose, which offers new conjunctions and interpretations of myths related to language, artistic expression, and sexuality. Chapter 3 focuses on the interpretive techniques and vocabulary of the fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé, such as "allegory," "fable," and istoire, arguing that the Christianization of the Metamorphoses created a "new Ovid" in the form of a fourteenth-century friar. Chapter 4 reveals that, although Guillaume de Machaut questioned the usefulness of mythic fables, he turned to them to invoke artistic consolation and ward off threats to his poetic voice. It also describes how Jean Froissart produced new myths by combining existing fables with newly invented elements in an attempt to dramatize the poetic creativity of his age. Finally, Chapter 5 demonstrates how Christine de Pizan offered the full range of medieval possibilities for myth: playing with the mythographic tradition, inscribing herself into Ovidian myths, offering historical explanations, rewriting myths from a pro-woman stance, and finally creating mythic universes of her own.
Author: Mark P. O. Morford Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195153446 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 808
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Provides an introduction to classical myths placing the addressed topics within their historical context, discussion of archaeological evidence as support for mythical events, and how these themes have been portrayed in literature, art, music, and film.
Author: Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Lisa Maurizio
Author: Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Lisa Maurizio
Author: Maurizio
Author: Vanda Zajko
Author: Barry B. Powell
Author: Mark William Padilla
Author: Barry B. Powell
Author: Ken Dowden
Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Author: Richard Buxton
Author: Mark P. O. Morford