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Há 4 dias · The exceptional popularity as heroic models that Achilles and Odysseus have enjoyed since antiquity is due above all to the fact that Homer chose them as the protagonists of his poems, and, therefore, as paradigms of heroic excellence (ἀρετή), guiding his peculiar perspective of the supreme human adventure by the passionate intensity of the anger of one and by the incomparable constancy ...
Há 2 dias · Virgil’s epic, The Aeneid, was written twenty to thirty years before the birth of Christ and about 800 years after Homer wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. Unlike the works of Homer, which address perennial truths transcending the fads and fashions of the age in which they were written, Virgil was apparently doing the bidding of his political ...
Há 2 dias · Virgil’s epic, The Aeneid, was written twenty to thirty years before the birth of Christ and about 800 years after Homer wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. Unlike the works of Homer, which address ...
Há 2 dias · The writings of Homer and Hesiod were held in extremely high regard throughout antiquity and were viewed by many ancient authors as the foundational texts behind ancient Greek religion; Homer told the story of a heroic past, which Hesiod bracketed with a creation narrative and an account of the practical realities of contemporary ...
Há 5 dias · As I infer from a systematic study by Rhea Thönges-Stringaris (1965) of iconography centering on the theme of “Totenmahl,” the central idea in the scenes picturing such a theme is that a cult hero is being shown in the act of partaking in his own Totenmahl or “feast for the dead,” thus showing the way for his worshippers to worship him—and even to visualize him.
Há 2 dias · French criticism has paid quite a lot of attention to textual beginnings, particularly since the emergence of the journal Poétique, and a lot of it is condensed and systematized in Del Lungo’s book-length study; the other most ambitious theoretical study of beginnings is Leander’s volume. 63 Of studies that focus on readings of specific works, two in particular are worth noting: Nuttall ...
Há 3 dias · Ancient Greece usually encompasses Greek antiquity, as well as part of the region's late prehistory (Late Bronze Age). It lasted from c. 1200 BC – c. 600 AD and can be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1100–800 BC; Archaic period, 800–490 BC; Classical period, 490–323 BC
