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Regarding Penelope - From Character To Poetics, Second Edition

de Nancy Felson

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 In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homerâ€™s construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and reception. Felson considers Penelope as an object of male gazes and as a subject acting from her own desire.
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Imagined Geographies In The Mediterranean, Middle East, And Beyond

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 Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined geography and the relationships among power, knowledge, and spaceâ€"including connections within this region and with Iran, Inner Asia, and the Indian Ocean. It is a sequel to Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space.
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Greek Media Discourse From Reconstitution Of Democracy To Memorandums Of Understanding - Transformations And Symbolisms

de Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis-Mallidis

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 An examination of the changes in the language used by the media in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship, Greek Media Discourse demonstrates the way language provokes critical debate, questions the forces that shape a discourse, and leaves unanswered: How pedagogical can a public discourse be when it loses its democracy as a social good?
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Ta-U-Ro-Qo-Ro - Studies In Mycenaean Texts, Language, And Culture In Honor Of Jose Luis Melena Jimenez

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 TA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation marks and numbers in the Linear B to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean society and the dialects spoken during the proto-Homeric period of the late Bronze Age.
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The Purpled World - Marketing Haute Couture In The Aegean Bronze Age

de Morris Silver

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 During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World, Silver reveals how Minoan and Mycenaean textile producers embedded commercial motivation into traditional rituals, and considers collapse of the Mycenaean Palaces as a manifestation of disintegration in the textile industry.
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Greek Language, Italian Landscape - Griko And The Re-Storying Of A Linguistic Minority

de Manuela, Fellow At Harvard Universityâ€™S Center For Hellenic Studies Pellegrino

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 Greek Language, Italian Landscape traces the transformation of language ideologies and practices of Griko, a variety of Modern Greek used in the Italian province of Lecce, and proposes the concept of â€œthe cultural temporality of languageâ€ to describe how locals are converting what was once considered a â€œbackward languageâ€ into a symbolic resource.
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Particles In Ancient Greek Discourse - Exploring Particle Use Across Genres

de Anna Bonifazi, Annemieke Drummen e Mark De Kreij

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 From 2010 to 2014, the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg set out to trace over two millennia of research on Greek particles within and beyond ancient Greek. Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse builds on this scholarship and analyzes particle use across five genres: epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, and historiography.
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Audible Punctuation - Performative Pause In Homeric Prosody

de Ronald J. J. Blankenborg

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 Audible Punctuation focuses on the pause in Homerâ€™s Iliad and Odyssey, both as a compositional feature and as a performative aspect of delivery. Ronald Blankenborgâ€™s analysis of metrical, rhythmical, syntactical, and phonological phrasing shows that the text of the Homeric epic allows for different options for performative pause.
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Achilles Unbound - Multiformity And Tradition In The Homeric Epics

de Casey Due

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 Casey DuÃ©, coeditor of the Homer Multitext, explores both the traditionality and multiformity of the Iliad. DuÃ© argues this multiform nature gives us glimpses of the very long history of the text, access to even earlier Iliads, and a greater awareness of the mechanisms by which such a remarkable epic poem could be composed in performance.
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Masterpieces Of Metonymy - From Ancient Greek Times To Now

de Gregory Nagy

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 Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, metonymy connects something familiar with something else already familiar. Nagy offers close readings of over one hundred examples of metonymy in the arts of Greek and other cultures.
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Between Thucydides And Polybius - The Golden Age Of Greek Historiography

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 Between Thucydides and Polybius focuses on the contribution of fourth-century authors such as Ephorus, Theopompus, and Xenophon to the development of Greek historiography. Essays examine the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research.
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Labored In Papyrus Leaves - Perspectives On An Epigram Collection Attributed To Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. Viii 309)

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 This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic.
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Black Doves Speak - Herodotus And The Languages Of Barbarians

de Rosaria Vignolo Munson

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 In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview.
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The Theory And Practice Of Life - Isocrates And The Philosophers

de Tarik Wareh

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 Wareh's study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek intellectuals took shape focuses on the role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in his school. The book sheds new light on the participation of â€œIsocrateansâ€ in fourth-century intellectual life.
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The Politics Of Ethnicity And The Crisis Of The Peloponnesian League

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 The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire. This book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally leveled Sparta was in vital ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League.
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Weaving Truth - Essays On Language And The Female In Greek Thought

de Ann Bergren

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 â€œWhat if truth were a woman?â€ asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-formâ€"the one Freud believed was even invented by womenâ€"weaving. The essays in this book explore the implications of this nexus: language, the female, weaving, and the construction of truth.
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The Other Great Game - The Opening Of Korea And The Birth Of Modern East Asia

de Sheila Miyoshi Jager

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 Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula. The battle to colonize Korea upended East Asian geopolitics, set great-power conflicts of the twentieth century in motion, and seeded internal rivalries that persist in the peninsulaâ€™s division between North and South.
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Criteria Of Truth - Representations Of Truth And Falsehood In Hellenistic Poetry

de Kathleen Kidder

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 Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems by Aratus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron.
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The Iliad And The Oral Epic Tradition

de Karol Zielinski

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 The Iliad reveals a traditional oral poetic style, but many believe that the poem cannot be treated as solely a product of oral tradition. In The Iliad and the Oral Epic Tradition, Karol Zielinski argues that neither Homerâ€™s unique artistry nor references to events known from other songs necessarily indicate the use of writing in its composition.
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Poetry And The Polis In Euripidean Tragedy

de Jonah Radding

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 In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding contends that political issues addressed in Euripidesâ€™s tragedies are inextricably related to his use of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylusâ€™s Agamemnon. Poetry and politics each illuminate the other.
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Blemished Kings - Suitors In The Odyssey, Blame Poetics, And Irish Satire

de Andrea Kouklanakis

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 In Blemished Kings, Andrea Kouklanakis looks to Irish satire as she interprets the language of the suitors in the Odysseyâ€"their fighting wordsâ€"as Homeric expressions of reproach and critique against unsuitable kings, and provides evidence for the concept that blame poetry can physically blemish, hence disqualify, rulers.
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A Monument More Lasting Than Bronze - Classics In The University Of Malawi, 1982â€“2019

de Paul Mckechnie, Samson Kambalu e Steve Nyamilandu

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 A Monument More Lasting than Bronze analyzes the motives for establishing a Department of Classics at the University of Malawi and the political goals it served, and examines it in the context of Classics worldwide. A balanced team of authors, some Malawian, some foreign with Malawian connections, brings varied perspectives to this reflection.
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Imagining The End - Mourning And Ethical Life

de Jonathan Lear

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 Jonathan Learâ€™s insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the endâ€"that is, the purposeâ€"of living. How to persist in the face of planetary catastrophe and the realization that even cultures can die? Lear sees in mourning an avenue of thriving and turns to a handful of moral exemplars to refine our sense of the good we can yet achieve.
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Wordsworth

de Reed Mark L. Reed

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