The Idea of Iambos

The Idea of Iambos
Author: Andrea Rotstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2010
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0199286272

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A long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the 7th to the late 4th centuries BCE. Employing the evidence of ancient testimonies, Andrea Rotstein also considers the more general question of how literary genres were perceived in ancient Greece.

Timon of Phlius

Timon of Phlius
Author: Dee L. Clayman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110220814

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Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study in English of the fragments of Timon’s works. Of his more than 100 titles, four fragments remain of a catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses of the Silloi, a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon ridicules philosophers of all periods whom he observes on a trip to Hades. Dee L. Clayman reconstructs the books of the Silloi starting from an outline in Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned to a few fragments by their sources. This has not been attempted since Wachsmuth’s edition of 1885, and carries his approach further by careful observation of syntactic and contextual clues in the text. Using the Greek text of Lloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all of the extant fragments are translated into English and discussed as literature, rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. Separate chapters demonstrate that the principle Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, were aware of Timon’s work specifically, and of Skepticism generally. The book concludes with a definition of “Skeptical aesthetics” that places many of the characteristic features of Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.

Parody

Parody
Author: Margaret A. Rose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1993-09-09
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780521429245

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In this definitive work Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times and offers a new approach to the analysis and classification of modern, late-modern, and post-modern theories of the subject. The author's Parody/Meta-Fiction (1979) was influential in broadening awareness of parody as a 'double-coded' device which could be used for more than mere ridicule. In the present study she both expands and revises the introductory section of her 1979 text and adds substantial new sections on modern and post-modern theories and uses of parody and pastiche which also discuss the work of theorists and writers including the Russian formalists, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ihab Hassan, Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, A. S. Byatt, Martin Amis, Charles Jencks, Umberto Eco, David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and others.

A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets

A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets
Author: Douglas E. Gerber
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1997-09-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004217614

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This handbook for the reading of early Greek poetry is intended to be both a manual for teachers and a guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It covers poetry in the elegiac and iambic genres, as well as melic poetry which is provisionally divided into the personal and the public. The book takes a critical look at scholarly trends applied in interpreting this poetry, exploring, for example, the problems of defining the nature of the elegiac genre, the origins of iambic poetry, the personal voice used by the poets, and the validity of historical criticism. Appearing in the Classical Tradition series, it considers the impact of modern literary theory on the reading of these texts - for instance the new interpretations suggested by feminism - and guides readers to a full bibliography on scholarly debates from the 19th century to the present.

Hellenistic Poetry

Hellenistic Poetry
Author: David Sider
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472053132

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A major new collection of use to all students and scholars working on Hellenistic Greek poetry

The Presocratics at Herculaneum

The Presocratics at Herculaneum
Author: Christian Vassallo
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 785
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110727668

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This volume analyses in depth the reception of early Greek philosophy in the Epicurean tradition and provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive edition, with translation and commentary, of all the Herculanean testimonia to the Presocratics. Among the most significant scientific outcomes, it provides elements for the attribution of an earlier date to the attested tradition of Xenophanes’ scepticism; a complete reconstruction of the Epicurean reception of Democritus; a new reconstruction of the testimonia to Nausiphanes’ concept of physiologia, Anaxagoras’ physics and theology, and Empedocles’ epistemology; new texts for better comparing the doxographical sections of Philodemus’ On Piety with those of Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods, which update H. Diels’ treatment of this subject in his Doxographi Graeci.

Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XV, 1999

Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XV, 1999
Author: John J. Cleary
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2000-03-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789004117044

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Most of the colloquia explore important topics such as the notion of self in Plato and the relationship between sense and knowledge in Aristotle. In addition, two colloquia discuss the origins of Pyrrhonic scepticism and the themes of Seneca s "Natural Questions." This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Silloi

Silloi
Author: Dee L. Clayman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110220806

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Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study of Timons work in English, and includes a new reconstruction of his most influential poem Silloi . All of the extant fragments are translated and discussed as literature rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. The book concludes with a definition of "skeptical aesthetics" that demonstrates the importance of Timon and early Skepticism to the most influential Hellenistic poets: Callimachus, Theocritus and.

New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism
Author: Diego E. Machuca
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004207767

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Scholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus’ extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus’ presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism and Cyrenaicism, the Pyrrhonist’s stance on ordinary life, religion, language, and ethics, Sextus’ discussion of our access to our own mental states, and the relationship between Pyrrhonism and epistemic internalism and externalism. These new essays represent a substantial contribution to the advancement of scholarship on Pyrrhonian skepticism.

Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram

Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Author: Peter Bing
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9047419405

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An internationally renowned set of experts on epigram offers an introduction, fresh approaches, and new direction to the study of Hellenistic-era epigram by exploring the models, forms, poetology, sub-genera, intertexts, and ancient and modern reception of Hellenistic epigram.