Literary Criticism : Ancient & Classical

Baracchi argues that in order to understand and appreciate Plato's Republic fully, we must attend to what its original language discloses. Through a close reading of the Greek text, attentive to the pervasiveness of story and myth, she investigates the dialogue's major themes. The first part of the book addresses issues of generation, reproduction, and decay as they apply to the founding of Socrates' just city. The second part takes up the connection between war and the cycle of life, employing a thorough analysis of Plato's rendition of the myth of Er. more...

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After describing those aspects of psychoanalytic theory that are relevant to the understanding of Greek myth, this study interprets, using psychoanalytical methodology, the Greek myth of origin and succession, particularly as stated in Hesiod's "Theogony". more...

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This is a commentary on Book XXV of the Res Gestae by the fourth century historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The commentary discusses philological, literary, linguistic and historical problems in the Latin text. more...

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This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle English literary portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes. more...

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This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters.; Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire.; Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts.; Takes account of recent critical approaches.; Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject.; Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place – including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal.; Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists. more...

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