Search Results - Homeric Greek

Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 /

Table of Contents: “…Poetry in performance -- The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly -- The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck -- Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready -- Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. …”
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Studies in Intellectual History

Table of Contents: “…--The history of ideas and ancient Greek philosophy, by H. Cherniss.--The golden chain of Homer, by L. …”
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Farewell to Freedom : A Western Genealogy of Liberty / by Baldissone, Ricardo

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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…From Thutmoses III to Homer to Blackadder: Egypt, the Aegean, and the "Barbarian Periphery" of the Late Bronze Age World System / Jorrit M. …”
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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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Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship /

Table of Contents: “…On Trees: Protest between the Symbolic and the Material"Cicero Would Love This Show": The Celebration of Rhetoric and Citizenship in The West Wing; Part II Studies in the Practice and Cultivation of Rhetorical Citizenship; Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Meetings: The Character of Religious Expression in American Discourse; Voice, Listening, and Telling Stories: The Communicative Construction of Rhetorical Citizenship in Small Groups; Argumentative Literacy and Rhetorical Citizenship: The Case of Genetically Modified Food in the Institutional Setting of a Greek Primary School.…”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Rose -- Sophocles and contemporary politics / Robin Osborne -- Sophocles and Athenian law / Edward Harris -- The necessity and limits of deliberation in Sophocles' Theban plays / Edith Hall -- Heroic pharmacology : Sophocles and the metaphors of Greek medical thought / Robin Mitchell-Boyask -- Sophocles and hero cult / Bruno Currie -- Cutting to the bone : recalcitrant bodies in Sophocles / Nancy Worman -- Staging mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the King / Laura McClure -- Marriage in Sophocles : a problem for social history / Cynthia Patterson -- Masculinity and freedom in Sophocles / Bruce King -- Aristotle on Sophocles / John Kirby -- Sophocles and Homer / Seth L. …”
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