Por Qu矇 Soy Cat籀lico
Chesterton en su juventud fue agn籀stico militante, al casarse con su esposa, protestante practicante, termino por acercarse al cristianismo. Luego, con el pasar de los a簽os se acerc籀 cada vez m獺s al Cristianismo. Volvi籀 a la religi籀n de su infancia, al anglicanismo. G. K. Chesterton, en los a簽os 20, siguiendo con la defensa de su renovada creencia, cada vez se adentraba m獺s y m獺s en los escritos patr穩sticos. Durante el a簽o 1921 Chesterton no public籀 ning繳n libro, pero s穩 se dedic籀 mucho al peri籀dico "The New Witness". Durante esa 矇poca mantuvo una constante correspondencia con Maurice Baring, el Padre John O'Connor y el Padre Ronald Knox, quienes lo ayudaron mucho a ir de a poco cambiando su pensamiento anglo-cat籀lico hacia la fe que ellos, todos conversos a su vez al catolicismo profesaban. Y termin籀 por convertirse a la Iglesia cat籀lica, en la cual ingres籀 en 1922.La conversi籀n de Chesterton al catolicismo caus籀 un revuelo semejante al que provoc籀 la del cardenal John Henry Newman o la de Ronald Knox y muchos otros personajes reconocidos en el mundo protestante. Chesterton es bien conocido por su apolog矇tica razonada e incluso algunos de los que no est獺n de acuerdo con 矇l han reconocido el atractivo universal de obras como la Ortodoxia y el Hombre Eterno.George Bernard Shaw, el "enemigo amistoso" de Chesterton seg繳n Time, dijo de 矇l: "Era un hombre de genio colosal".La presente obra es una colecci籀n con razonamientos escritos, en forma de art穩culos, referentes al tema.
The Frogs and Other Plays
Aristophanes, often referred to as "The Father of Comedy", is an ancient Greek poet and playwright who is credited with helping to create the art of satire and irony. Of the over forty plays Aristophanes wrote during his lifetime only eleven survive to this day of which five are collected together here in this volume."The Wasps" is a play which satirizes the Athenian general Cleon, a popular contemporary demagogue, and the Athenian courts which empower him. "The Thesmophoriazusae" depicts a gathering of women at an annual festival as they plan to enact their revenge upon Euripides for his unflattering depiction of their sex. "The Frogs" relates the journey of the god Dionysus to the underworld, who wishes to improve the state of Athenian tragedy by bringing Euripides back from the dead. In "The Clouds" we find a lampoon of contemporary Athenian intellectuals, most notably Socrates. Lastly in "Plutus", Aristophanes employs the god of wealth, Plutus, to satirize the political economics of Athenian society. This edition follows the prose translations of The Athenian Society and is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography
The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.
Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its deconstruction of tragic theatricality. This book reveals that this deconstruction is grounded not simply in Aristophanes' wider engagement with tragic realism. Rather, it demonstrates that from its outset Aristophanes' play draws upon Parmenides' philosophical revelations concerning reality and illusion, employing Eleatic strictures and imagery to philosophize the theatrical situation, criticize Aristophanes' poetic rival Euripides as promulgator of harmful deceptions, expose the dangerous complicity of Athenian theatre audiences in tragic illusion, and articulate political advice to an audience negotiating a period of political turmoil characterized by deception and uncertainty (the months before the oligarchic coup of 411 BC). The book thereby restores Thesmophoriazusae to its proper status as a philosophical comedy and reveals hitherto unrecognized evidence of Aristophanes' political use of Eleatic ideas during the late fifth century BC.
Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic
The study of Roman republican magistracy has traditionally been the preserve of historians posing constitutional and prosopographical questions. As a result, one fundamental aspect of our most detailed contemporary and near-contemporary sources about magistracy has remained largely neglected: their literariness. This book takes a new approach to the representation of magistrates and shows how the rhetorical and formal features of prose texts - principally Livy's history but also works by Cicero and Sallust - shape our understanding of magistracy. Applying to the texts an expanded concept of exemplarity, Haimson Lushkov shows how a rich body of anecdotes concerning the behaviour and speech of magistrates reflects on the values and tensions that defined the republic. A variety of contexts - familial, military, and electoral, among others - flesh out the experience of being, becoming, and encountering a Roman magistrate, and the political and ethical problems highlighted and negotiated in such circumstances.
Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism
This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and mobile. Ancient writers most often coordinate stylistic features with country settings, where authoritative performers such as Muses, poets, and eventually critics or theorists view, appropriate, and emulate their bounties (for example springs, flowers, rivers, paths). These spaces of metaphor and their elaborations provide poets and critics with a vivid means of distinguishing among styles and an influential vocabulary. Together these figurative terrains shape critical and theoretical discussions in Greece and beyond. Since this discourse has a remarkably wide reach, the book is broad in scope, ranging from archaic Greek poetry through Roman oratory and 'Longinus' to the reception of critical imagery in Proust and Derrida.
Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy
Pollution is ubiquitous in Greek tragedy: matricidal Orestes seeks purification at Apollo's shrine in Delphi; carrion from Polyneices' unburied corpse fills the altars of Thebes; delirious Phaedra suffers from a 'pollution of the mind'. This book undertakes the first detailed analysis of the important role which pollution and its counterparts - purity and purification - play in tragedy. It argues that pollution is central in the negotiation of tragic crises, fulfilling a diverse array of functions by virtue of its qualities and associations, from making sense of adversity to configuring civic identity in the encounter of self and other. While primarily a literary study providing close readings of several key plays, the book also provides important new perspectives on pollution. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students not only in classics and literary studies, but also in the study of religions and anthropology.
Saints and Symposiasts
Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It also deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded, eccentric types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and early Christian prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the Letters of Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially Apuleius, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early saints' lives. It argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter: these works communicated distinctive ideas about how to talk and how to think, distinctive models of the relationship between past and present, distinctive and often destabilising visions of identity and holiness.
Lucan and the Sublime
This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's Bellum civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke and Kant to Freud, Lyotard and Ankersmit the continuing vitality of Longinus' foundational treatise On the Sublime, Day charts Lucan's complex and instructive exploration of the relationship between sublimity and ethical discourses of freedom and oppression. Through the Bellum civile's cataclysmic vision of civil war and metapoetic accounts of its own genesis, through its heated linguistic texture and proclaimed effects upon future readers, and, most powerfully of all, through its representation of its twin protagonists Caesar and Pompey, Lucan's great epic emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime.
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.
Greece and Mesopotamia
This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions that are of interest to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and 'barbarians', and what happened when they came to live alongside those 'barbarians' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations
A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan Disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Less technical than Academia and De Finibus, it still provides many insights into Hellenistic philosophical controversies, especially those concerning the two great schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism. At the same time it contains significant evidence of a reviving interest in Plato and Aristotle themselves. The theme of the first Tusculan is whether death is an evil. Of the many popular beliefs about the nature of the soul and its fate after death Cicero has little to say, but the philosophically based approach which he adopts is rich in material and provides the inspiration for striking passages worthy of the great orator. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.
Ultimi Governi dei Cavalieri sull’Isola di Malta
Con questo studio vuole presentare in maniera lineare il percorso dell'Ordine di San Giovanni, ripercorrendo insieme a voi la vera storia dei Cavalieri di Malta. Le tracce del passato, infuse nelle trasformazioni e nelle evoluzioni del presente, caratterizzano quello che 癡 stato ed 癡 l'Ordine di San Giovanni. Malta ed i suoi Cavalieri sono un binomio inscindibile, insieme alla croce ottagona evocano periodi lontani di un ricordo immortale e il mito del loro valore influenza ancora il nostro immaginario. La Croce di Malta, logo medioevale indimenticabile, 癡 incisa nel cuore di tutti i suoi appartenenti. Con le nostre pubblicazioni, cerchiamo di dare un contributo e un dovuto tributo all'Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, Cavalieri di Malta quello conosciuto con l'acronimo S.O.S.J, che ha continuato le sue attivit? in Russia dopo la perdita dell'isola di Malta, poi negli USA e successivamente a Malta. Questa raccolta storica, oltre che a contestualizzare il periodo tra il 1795 al 1802 vanno ad arricchire la conoscenza su quegli eventi che caratterizzarono la storia d'EuropaTante persone, animate da curiosit?, vanno in cerca di notizie riguardanti il famoso baluardo del Mediterraneo, pochi hanno la fortuna di imbattersi nella vera storia, i pi羅, diventano conoscitori o eruditi di una faziosa ricostruzione storia. Con uno spirito di preservazione della memoria dei fatti, si 癡 ritenuto importante, chiarire il senso di pi羅 passaggi storici resi nebulosi da convenienze immorali, realizzando una meticolosa ricerca presso archivi, annali, con esame di libri e manoscritti del 1805, memorie scritte dai nostri predecessori, con il preciso obiettivo di ricostruire il filo storico degli avvenimenti. I testi pubblicati in Italia dal 19簞 secolo in poi, narrano una storia totalmente estranea alla verit? dei fatti, la maggior parte degli autori, si 癡 concentrata a raggiungere l'obiettivo di far discendere direttamente l'Ordine di Malta di collazione Pontificia (SMOM) dall'antico Ordine (S.O.S.J.), contestualizzando gli eventi accaduti in una sfera del tutto distorta, separandosi dalla storia che travolgeva l'Europa. Una distorsione storica voluta, per accreditare la tesi sostenuta dall'Ordine di Malta di collazione Pontificia. In questo volume abbiamo documentato il percorso storico che ha attraversato l'Europa dal 1800 al 1970, ed 癡 emerso, che le contestualizzazioni storiche che ci hanno fornito questi autori, in queste ricostruzioni, sono del tutto false ed inesatte. Semplicemente, hanno narrato una loro storia, in particolare, la storia dell'Ordine di Malta di collazione Pontificia (SMOM), fuori dalla realt? storica che ha attraversato e vissuto l'intera Europa.Un'autentica bolla di cristallo !Dal 1802 continua a nascondere la sua reale identit?, definendo i membri dell'antico Ordine S.O.S.J poco attendibili. Nelle nostre precedenti pubblicazioni, abbiamo dimostrato, come si suole dire ... documenti alla mano, la verit? storica di questi eventi, con l'aiuto di insigni universit? e l'ausilio di Sentenze di Tribunali italiani e degli Stati Uniti d'America.Con le nostre pubblicazioni, oltre a rendere testimonianza del grande furto storico che ha sofferto l'antico Ordine S.O.S.J, cerchiamo di smantellare ogni loro manipolazione storica. La storia non 癡 statica, ma, in continuo movimento. Dove ognuno di noi pu簷 farne parte facendo conoscere la verit?, il dovere di ogni Autore che affronta tematiche storiche 癡 quello di dare il proprio contributo, lasciando traccia delle proprie ricerche. Affinch矇, la verit? non venga sostituita con un surrogato propinato ad avvallare falsi storici..... In un'era dove ... l'Essere 癡 divenuto Apparire .... E l'Apparire 癡 divenuto Essere
The Amateur Army
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Parlando con DioSoliloqui, meditazioni, preghiere (1519-1527)
Il Giustiniani scrive mentre pensa e viceversa. Le due azioni sono per lui inseparabili. Questo modo di procedere viene da lui stesso compiutamente formulato, elegantemente descritto e continuamente ribadito. Diviene, in seguito, oggetto di una vera e propria con-sapevole e candida confessione, per riemergere, fin nei suoi ultimi scritti, pi羅 e pi羅 volte. Il Giustiniani ne fa una vera e propria scelta stilistica. In questi scritti c'癡 assoluta sincerit? e onest?. Anche se tale onest? a ogni costo sembra, a volte, diventare quasi spietata, il Giustiniani sa riconoscere in s矇 non solo il male, ma anche il bene. Una confessione a s矇 stessi, a Dio e alla propria comunit? della ruvida bellezza della vita cristiana.
Italian Renaissance Tales
'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen, frustrated wives, libidinous friars, ill-fated lovers, and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English, and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats. The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject-matter, whether ribald or sentimental, comic or tragic, often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel
The Book Of Were-Wolves
Originally published in 1865, this highly unusual book will appeal to those who hold a fascination for all that is mythical and mystical. Its 265 pages contain a wealth of information and anecdote on the myth of the were-wolf. A captivating read for any folklorist. Contents Include; Preface; Introductory; Lycanthropy among the Ancients; The Were-wolf in the North; The Origin of the Scandinavian Were-wolf; The Were-wolf in the Middle Ages; A Chapter of Horrors; Jean Grenier; Folk-lore Relating to Were-wolves; Natural Causes of Lycanthropy; Mythological Origin of the Were-wolf Myth; The Mar矇chal de Retz - The Investigation of Charges, The Trial, The Sentence and Execution; A Galician Were-wolf; Anomalous Case - The Human Hyena; A Sermon on Were-wolves. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Story of a New York House
The Story of a New York House is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
The story of a New York house
The story of a New York house is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
How the Other Half Lives
In this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" explained not only the living conditions in New York slums, but also in the sweatshops in some tenements which paid workers only a few cents a day. The book explains the plight of working children; they would work in factories and at other jobs. Some children became garment workers and newsies (newsboys). The effect was the tearing down of New York's worst tenements, sweatshops, and the reform of the city's schools. The book led to a decade of improvements in Lower East Side conditions, with sewers, garbage collection, and indoor plumbing all following soon after, thanks to public reaction.
The Odyssey
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the "complicated" hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before.Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson's Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes the epic's music, sailing along at Homer's swift, smooth pace.A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem's major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.
Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity
This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern. Epic and novel have often been construed in terms of sharp contrasts: temporally, with the epic anchored in the canonical beginnings of classical literature, as opposed to the novel, which rises only late in the ancient era; hierarchically, with epic regularly occupying the canonical core while the novel often resided in the periphery; and in terms of specific highly contrasting attributes: 'sublime' vs. 'subversive'; an aspiration to 'oral' song vs. an intimate association with book culture; heroic vs. 'anti-heroic' or 'mock-heroic'. Ahuvia Kahane argues for the fallibility of each of several major differential attributes, to the point of generic disintegration. He then constructs a new understanding of epic and novel in antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework, governed by intertextuality and openness on the one hand, and by fragmented interpretive traditions on the other.
Charlotte Bront禱 and Her Circle
"Charlotte Bront禱 and Her Circle" is a 1896 treatise on the Bront禱 sisters by Clement King Shorter. Dealing with every aspect of their lives, loves, losses, and literary endeavours, it offers the reader a unique and profound insight into this famous literary family. This volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in English literature and the Bront禱 sisters in particular. Contents include: "A Bront禱 Chronology", "Preliminary: Mrs. Gaskell", "Patrick Bront禱 And Maria His Wife", "Childhood, School And Governess Life", "The Pensionnat H矇ger, Brussels", "Patrick Branwell Bront禱", "Emily Jane Bront禱", "Anne Bront禱", "Ellen Nussey", "Mary Taylor", "Margaret Woole", etc. Clement King Shorter (1857 - 1926) was a British literary critic and journalist. Other notable works by this author include: "Immortal Memories" (1907), "The Bront禱s: Life and Letters" (1908), and "George Borrow and his Circle" (1913). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition for the enjoyment of readers now and for years to come.
Marco Polo's Le Devisement Du Monde
The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective. Le Devisement du Monde (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as Marco Polo's Travels, is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European cultural history, and Marco Polo is one of only a handful of medieval writers who still enjoys instant name-recognition. Yet there is little awareness of the Devisement's complex history and development. This book examines the text from a fresh, literary viewpoint, drawing upon a range of different disciplines and approaches: philology, manuscript studies, narratology, cultural history, postcolonial studies and theory. It contains comparative readings of multiple versions of the text in French, Italian and Latin, Rather than offering a Eurocentric vision of the world grounded in a sense of the absolute alterity of the non-Christian world as is often asserted, the author shows how the Devisement expounds a sense of the relative nature of difference, crucially positioning Marco uncannily between two worlds (East and West), just as he is positioned awkwardly between two languages, French and Italian, and (in modern reception at least) awkwardly between two literary histories. The author also calls into question traditional accounts of the use of French outside France in the Middle Ages and offers a re-assessment of Marco Polo's position in the evolution of European travel writing. SIMON GAUNT is Professor of French Language and Literature at King's College London.
The Three Bront禱s
"The Three Bront禱s" is a 1912 treatise on the Bront禱 sisters by Mary St. Clair. Within this volume Sinclair explores their lives, characters, and works in great detail, offering the reader a fascinating and informative glimpse into their unique world. The Bront禱s were a famous literary family during the nineteenth century synonymous with the West Riding area of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), and Anne (1820-1849), are now world-famous poets and novelists; and their father, Patrick Bront禱 (1777 - 1861), was also an author. Numerous novels produced by this family have since become classics of English literature. Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863 -1946), also known by the pen name May Sinclair, was a British writer, active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. Other notable works by this author include: "Nakiketas and other poems" (1886), "Essays in Verse" (1892), and "Audrey Craven" (1897). Contents include: "Prefatory Note", "Introduction", "The Three Bront禱s", "Appendix I", and "Appendix II". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this classic volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition for the enjoyment of literature lovers now and for years to come.
Meditations
Completely unabridged, with a new foreword written by Huffington Post writer Carolyn Gregoire, this publication of Meditations is an all-encompassing collection of Marcus Aurelius's works."Do every deed, speak every word, think every thought in the knowledge that you may end your days any moment.""We have body, soul, and intelligence. To the body belong the senses, to the soul the passions, to the intelligence principles.""Think not as your insulter judges or wishes you to judge: but see things as they truly are.""To pursue impossibilities is madness; and it is impossible that the wicked should not act in some such way as this.""Order not your life as though you had ten thousand years to live. Fate hangs over you. While you live, while yet you may, be good."Meditations is a collection of twelve books written by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. This set of books was originally compiled in the form of private journals. Marcus Aurelius used these notes as personal guides to live by and to better himself as a ruler. He compiled these journals during his time as emperor, and while they were not intended for public consumption, there are valuable lessons to be gleaned from his wisdom. The entries include his views of stoicism--the Hellenistic philosophy devoid of "destructive emotions" that could tamper with logic--and its practical use in ruling and military tactics.
Acting Greek Tragedy
Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and modern theatres are not significant, as core dramatic energy can be placed successfully in either context. Guiding commentary on selected passages from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides illuminates the problems involved with performing monologue, dialogue, scenes requiring three actors, and scenes with properties. A companion website - actinggreektragedy.com - offers recorded illustrations of scenes from the Workshops. What the book offers is a practical approach to the preparation of Greek scripts for performance. The translations used have all been tested in workshops, with those of Euripides newly composed for this book.
Acting Greek Tragedy
Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and modern theatres are not significant, as core dramatic energy can be placed successfully in either context. Guiding commentary on selected passages from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides illuminates the problems involved with performing monologue, dialogue, scenes requiring three actors, and scenes with properties. A companion website - actinggreektragedy.com - offers recorded illustrations of scenes from the Workshops. What the book offers is a practical approach to the preparation of Greek scripts for performance. The translations used have all been tested in workshops, with those of Euripides newly composed for this book.
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The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2011
The Year's Work in Medievalism includes vetted essays from the Studies in Medievalism--now International Society for the Study of Medievalism--annual conference and from submissions to the editor throughout the year. The current volume includes a range of topics from medievalism in literature and art to the neomedievalism of movies and games. It includes these scholarly contributions: E. L. Risden, Introductory Letter from the EditorGwendolyn Morgan, Recollections of MedievalismRichard Utz, Them Philologists: Philological Practices and Their Discontents from Nietzsche to CerquigliniClare Simmons, Really Ancient Druids in British Medievalist DramaKarl Fugelso, Neomedievalisms in Tom Phillips' Commedia Illustrations Jason Fisher, Some Contributions to Middle-earth Lexicography: Hapax Legomena in The Lord of the RingsSimon Roffey, The World of Warcraft: A Medievalist PerspectiveWilliam Hodapp, Arthur, Beowulf, Robin Hood, and Hollywood's Desire for OriginsM. J. Toswell, The Arthurian Landscapes of Guy Gavriel Kay
The Art of Love
How to win a woman and how to keep her. How to attract a man and keep him interested. How to get over a love gone wrong. Human nature hasn't changed much over the past 2,000 years, and this new translation constitutes a fresh, accessible approach to the Roman poet's witty guide to seduction--a classic that became the model for nearly every latter-day book on romantic advice. Translator Stanley Appelbaum presents an Introduction that discusses Ovid's life and works. This edition also features twelve plates of erotic artwork from a privately published volume of the 1930s.
The Homeric Hymns
Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. They honor the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by reason of their length and quality. The Hymn to Demeter tells what happened when Hades, lord of the dead, abducted Persephone, Demeter's daughter. The Hymn to Apollo describes Apollo's birth and the foundation of his Delphic oracle. In the Hymn to Hermes Apollo's cattle are stolen by a felonious infant--Hermes, the god of thieves. In the Hymn to Aphrodite the goddess of love herself becomes infatuated with a mortal man, the Trojan prince Ankhises. This volume offers a faithful verse translation of all the hymns, Explanatory Notes, and a Glossary of Names. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Mimiambs
Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiambs of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines which had survived in quotations found principally in Athenaios and Stobaios. Even after the publication of the papyrus and subsequent work on it, scarcely anything is known of their author. The scant evidence that has survived suggests that he lived in during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphos (285-247 BC), on the island of Kos, and was a direct contemporary of the greatest of the Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius. His Mimiambs are short humorous dramatic scenes written in verse, often bawdy, reflecting everyday life and dialect. In this Aris & Phillips Classical Text, Graham Zanker explores what we do know of the poet including the language, dialect and metre that he uses. Each poem is translated and accompanied by an individual commentary with synopsis, information on date, setting, sources and purpose, as well as close examination of vocabulary and grammar. This edition reveals Herodas' work in all its skill and subtlety.
Whimsically Grotesque
Selected writings of Lafcadio Hearn in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 1872 1875: contains 25 reports as chapters, divided by four parts: part 1, 19th Century Cincinnati; part 2, Visions of Poverty and Crime; part 3, Ghosts and Corpses; and part 4, Murder Most Foul; The Tanyard Case. The book contains many photographs and illustrations to help readers visualize incidents. 340 pages, with complete Japanese translation.
Chapman’s Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica
George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what the Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Homeric hymns. The hymns, believed to have been written not by Homer himself but by followers who emulated his style, are poems written to the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. The collection, originally titled by Chapman "The Crowne of all Homers Workes," also includes epigrams and poems attributed to Homer and known as "The Lesser Homerica," as well as his famous "The Battle of Frogs and Mice."
An Epitome of Biblical History
An epic of some 5500 lines on the life of Alexander the Great, Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis stood, from the late twelfth century till the close of the Middle Ages, among the most successful and widely read works of Latin literature. This volume presents one free-standing version of the more or less 'standard' commentary on a uniquely celebrated passage from the poem. The lines in question, 176-274 of Book 4, describe a tomb commissioned by Alexander for the wife of Darius, after her death in captivity to the Greek commander. The painter Apelles devises for the tomb an iconographical schema largely devoted to rehearsal of the Hebrew Scriptures. The commentary elucidates Walter's compressed biblical references to the fictive tomb's illustrative cycle through extensive paraphrase of episodes from the Hebrew Bible.
