The Iliad Or The Poem of Force
Author | : Simone Weil |
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Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Simone Weil |
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Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Simone Weil |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780820463612 |
The commentary draws on recent interpretations of the Iliad and examines the parallels between Weil's version of Homer's warriors and the experiences of modern soldiers."--Jacket.
Author | : Corinne Ondine Pache |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1108663621 |
From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
Author | : Simone Weil |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780802137296 |
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a philosopher, theologian, political activist, and mystic whose work endures among the greatest spiritual thinking in human history. Born and educated in Paris, she was devoted to advocating for disenfranchised citizens around the world. Called the 'saint of all outsiders' by Andre Gide, Weil's compassion for the plight of the working class and the armed forces fueled her enlightened treatises and existential inquiries.
Author | : W. H. Auden |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2024-05-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0691256586 |
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history.
Author | : Homer |
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Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520293630 |
"This is a translation of the epic Greek poem by Homer."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Dean Hammer |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780806133669 |
"In this first full-length treatment of the Iliad as a work of political thought, Hammer demonstrates how Homer's epic is also an ancient Greek discussion on political ethics. Hammer redefines political thought as the activity of addressing issues of collective identity and organization. Using this understanding of politics, he discusses how the characters in the Iliad, through their larger-than-life actions and interactions, embody community issues of authority, conflict, judgment, and the interrelationship between personal and collective identity. The characters' many quarrels, laments, reconciliations, and vows of loyalty and friendship all critically model the principles and controversies of underlying Greek political ethics of communal responsibility and relationship."--BOOK JACKET.