Search Results - Homeric Greek

Homer the preclassic by Nagy, Gregory

Subjects: “…Homer Criticism and interpretation.…”
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Greek writing from Knossos to Homer a linguistic interpretation of the origin of the Greek alphabet and the continuity of ancient Greek literacy / by Woodard, Roger D.

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Christianizing Homer the Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew / by MacDonald, Dennis Ronald, 1946-

Subjects: “…Homer. Odyssey.…”
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Homer in the twentieth century between world literature and the western canon /

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The challenge of Homer school, pagan poets and early Christianity / by Sandnes, Karl Olav, 1954-

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The emergence of reflexivity in Greek language and thought from Homer to Plato and beyond / by Jeremiah, Edward T.

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Poetry in Speech : Orality and Homeric Discourse / by Bakker, Egbert J.

Subjects: “…Homer. fast (OCoLC)fst00029137 154637…”
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Poetry as performance : Homer and beyond / by Nagy, Gregory

Subjects: “…Homer Criticism, Textual.…”
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Becoming Achilles child-sacrifice, war, and misrule in the Iliad and beyond / by Holway, Richard, 1945-

Subjects: “…Homer. Iliad.…”
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From scholars to scholia chapters in the history of ancient Greek scholarship /

Table of Contents: “…Hellenistic Scholarship and the Study of Language / Lara Pagani -- The Greek Origins of the Romans and the Roman Origins of Homer in the Homeric Scholia and in POxy. 3710 / Paola Ascheri -- Observations on Περι επιρρηματωnu by Apollonius Dyscolus / Silvia Consonni -- The Making of Greek Scholiastic Corpora / Fausto Montana.…”
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Mujeres, diosas y musas : tejedoras de la memoria / by Dalton, Margarita

Subjects: “…Homer. fast (OCoLC)fst00029137 154637…”
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A companion to sport and spectacle in Greek and Roman antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Rutter -- Sport in the Early Iron Age and Homeric Epic / Timothy P.J. Perry -- Representations of Sport in Greek Literature / Nigel Nicholson -- Picturing Victory : Representations of Sport in Greek Art / Jenifer Neils -- Inscriptions as Evidence for Greek Sport / H.W. …”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Samothracian connections essays in honor of James R. McCredie /

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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece / by Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-

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Farewell to Freedom : A Western Genealogy of Liberty / by Baldissone, Ricardo

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Children in the Bible and the ancient world : comparative and historical methods in reading ancient children /

Table of Contents: “…ConclusionNotes; 3 Uncooperative breeders: Parental investment and infant abandonment in Hebrew and Greek narrative; Infant abandonment; Hebrew infant abandonment stories; Moses; Ishmael; Greek infant abandonment stories; Diodorus of Sicily; Semiramis; Heracles; Telephus; Agathocles; Pseudo-Apollodorus; Zeus; Pelias and Neleus; Perseus; Telephus; Zethus and Amphion; Oedipus; Atalanta; Paris; Comparative perspective; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Failure to marry: Girling gone wrong; Childist interpretation; Socialisation and gendering in the biblical world; Rites of passage…”
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