Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5229&No=30 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=84974 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=316850 Includes a brief biography of Sophocles, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=126320 Homer, His Art and His World will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including those interested in the literary history of Western culture. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=279668 -- Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work-- Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters-- Digests of critical extracts prefaced by headnotes-- The perfect resource for introducing readers to the analytical techniques of literary criticism http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=143526 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=130715 The link between weddings and death - as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorcas Blood Wedding - plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as Kassandra, Antigone, and Helen enact and refer to significant parts of wedding and funeral rites, but often in a twisted fashion. Over time the pressure of dramatic events causes the distinctions between weddings and funerals to disappear. In this book Rush Rehm considers how and why the conflation of the two ceremonies comes to theatrical life in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophokles, and Euripides. By focusing on the dramatization of important rituals conducted by women in ancient Athenian society, Rehm offers a new perspective on Greek tragedy and the challenges it posed for its audience. The conflation of weddings and funerals, the author argues, unleashes a kind of dramatic alchemy whereby female characters become the bearers of new possibilities. Such a formulation enables the tragedians to explore the limitations of traditional thinking and acting in fifth-century Athens. Rehm finds that when tragic weddings and funerals become confused and perverted, the aftershocks disturb the political and ideological givens of Athenian society, challenging the audience to consider new, and often radically different, directions for their city.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=135955 In The Heart of Achilles, Graham Zanker addresses the task of reconstructing the ethical thought-world in which the characters of the Iliad live and move. It is only against this background, Zanker argues, that we can convincingly place the ethical status of the heroes and their actions. This in turn helps us to form a comprehensive view of the Iliads characterization of its people, especially that of Achilles by examining all his responses to the question of allegiance, the value of heroic prowess, and of life itself. This volume is Zankers contribution to the vital debate rising from A. W. H. Adkins work on the Iliad. Adkins traced unkinder, ungentler values in the epic. Zanker settles the resulting heated debate by his consideration of the relations between the quieter drives and the competitive incentives, by closely examining the Priam-Achilles scene (not treated by Adkins), and by showing how the epic demonstrates that transcending the values held by ones group is most extraordinary. This volume is intended for the specialist and nonspecialist alike; no knowledge of Greek is required to follow the argument. Students of Greek literature and ethics as well as those of morality more broadly defined will find much of value in The Heart of Achilles.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=94033 This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a readers handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italys leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte. Many of the entries - those on Virgil and Petronius, for example - provide elegantly compact formulations of work on the very frontier of current study, and virtually all entries offer something of interest for the lay reader and expert alike.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=401412 It seems almost impossible for a contemporary reader fully to grasp The Odyssey without an education in classical mythology, archaeology, and geography. But this masterly companion to Homers epic bridges the gulf that separates us from the Homeric world. Its scholarly introduction, illustrations, chronology, and hundreds of specific line references permit us to understand what The Odyssey meant to its original audience and to sift through the layers of meaning and cultural reference it has acquired for later readers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=103345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=92826 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=188406 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=262723 Although the history of ancient comedy is usually viewed as a series of disjunct episodes, Dana Sutton demonstrates the continuity both of the ancient writers inner motivating spirit and their chosen subject matter, since Aristophanes and later comic writers are capable of taking a comic look at the war between the generations, especially between fathers and sons. In a useful overview chapter, Professor Sutton describes the origins of ancient comedy in Dionysiac festivals and the development of the form from Aristophanes episodic plots to the artful plot construction of later comedy. In subsequent chapters, lively descriptions of these often rowdy plays are combined with thoughtful analyses in which historical context continues to illuminate the distinct characteristics of each playwrights treatment of intergenerational conflict. Although this theme remained a constant throughout the centuries, it was also bound to political life: Old Comedy, we learn, deals with the Athenian city-state, whereas New Comedy is firmly centered in the realities of bourgeois domestic life. Roman comedies have often been dismissed as superficial, simple presentations of stock characters in stereotypical situations. This perceptive book shatters that image. Plautus adroit, individualistic adaptations of the Greek plays comment revealingly on patriarchal Roman society. The growing social significance and emotional power of ancient comedy culminates in the innovative plays of Terence, who uses traditional comic situations to explore the ironies and ambiguities of lifes problems and human nature. A chronology of major events and works and an index complete this concise, comprehensive genre study.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=142190 ... it is impossible / That any clerk wol speke good of wyves. Behind the words of Chaucers Wife of Bath lies a vast corpus of medieval misogynistic writings. These texts, which range from those of the Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular literature, have had a profound influence on the status of women in the west. Yet, despite the recent surge of investigations into womens situation, no one book has sought to collect together the key voices of medieval antifeminism, let alone to present the voices sometimes raised, even at that epoch, in defence of women. The urgent need for a single and substantial sourcebook of these materials in modern translation is met for the first time in this volume, which includes an introduction, notes, and commentary. The accessibility of the better-known texts here (from Jerome to Walter Map; from Heloise and Abelard to Christine de Pizan and Chaucer) will be welcomed by those engaged in medieval and womens studies; the lesser-known writings concerning for instance the sexual double standard, and women and the priesthood, will provide unexpected discoveries for specialists and beginners alike. Indeed, a surprising range of early texts championing women - including material never previously available in translation - is here represented. All those concerned with womens studies and with medieval and later culture (European as well as English) will find Woman Defamed and Woman Defended fascinating to read as well as a useful resource.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=224839 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=133711 For over a hundred years there has been no comprehensive history of later medieval Anglo-Latin literature (which constitutes an astonishing nine-tenths of English literary activity in the period). The century and a half since the last major work on this subject have seen the discovery and editing of many important texts. The view is commonly held that English literary culture declined after the Norman Conquest and revived only in the fourteenth century in the work of writers such as Chaucer; this view ignores the flourishing tradition of Latin literature written between Englands enforced entry into the European mainstream and the rise of the vernacular and humanism. A.G. Riggs new history reveals a very rich corpus of writings, comprising epic, lyric, comedy, satire, prose anecdote, romance, saints lives and devotional texts. Authors such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, John of Salisbury, Gerald of Wales and John Gower are now presented in the context of the host of other Anglo-Latin writings, both major and minor. This chronological history gives quotations in the original Latin with English translations in verse or prose; Anglo-Latin metres are explained and exemplified in an Appendix.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=61942 This collection of essays provides in convenient form a number of recent and classic papers on Vergils Aeneid, covering a wide range of topics. It is intended to be a supplement to standard reading for undergraduate courses in ancient epic poetry, and Vergil in particular. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=85195 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=195033 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179800 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28271 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=85265 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=262132 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=185984 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=310934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=186034 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=186030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=660402 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=229315 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=250220 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=264056