Literary Criticism : Ancient & Classical

In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his treatment of key linguistic issues. This investigation, conjoined with a new interpretation of the Republic's familiar critique of poets, supports the view that Plato's work represents a valuable precedent for contemporary reflections on ways in which philosophy might benefit from appeals to literature. more...

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Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history.:.; Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present.; Looks at portrayals of Rome in different media: writing, architecture, theatre, painting, World’s Fairs and Expositions, and film.; Beautifully illustrated with over 40 high quality photographs and figures. more...

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The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume.:.; Presents a study of modernity that examines classical influences.; Incorporates political, economic, social, and psychological theories.; Highlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, including Adam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud. more...

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A collection of essays on Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, The Art of Love and Cures for Love, written by leading scholars and offering a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems. - ;The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great. influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics. of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems. - more...

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An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance. - ;Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature. of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros ('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between. literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities. - ;...throughly researched, wide-ranging...an extremely stimulating and thorough reading of some of Bacchylides' poems...and should be consulted by everyone interested not only in archaic Greek poetry, nut also in Athenian performance culture - Giambattista D'Alessio Bryn Mawr Classical Review;...the first English-language monograph on Bacchylides in more than twenty years. This book is interesting...for the questions it asks as well as the possible answers it offers. - Barbara Graziosi, The London Review of Books more...

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