Product Description: Classical Studies, Art

Product Description: The Diatribe and Paul's Letter to the Romans (Dissertation Series (Society of Biblical Literature))

In this award-winning study of the Phaedrus, Charles Griswold focuses on the theme of 'self-knowledge.'"Determined to take every part of the dialogue seriously as a single deliberate philosophical design, Griswold analyses each episode in turn, with subtlety and much sensitivity. . . . This is a book well worth reading, and a commendable effort." Martha Nussbaum, Times Literary Supplement Relying on the principle that form and content are equally important to the dialogue's meaning, Griswold shows how the concept of self-knowledge unifies the profusion of issues set forth by Plato. Included are a new preface and an updated comprehensive bibliography of works on the Phaedrus.

The focus of this account is how myth and formal argument in the dialogue Phaedrus complement and reinforce each other in Plato's philosophy. Not only is the dialogue in its formal structure a joining of myth and argument, but the philosophic life that it praises is also shaped by the limitations of argument and the importance of mythical and poetic understanding. The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required.

Product Description: "Dimock proceeds Book by Homeric Book. At times he retells the epic tale. At others he dwells on this or that thematic highlight or difficulty. He draws on etymology, especially with reference to the names of the characters. It is the 'pain' which he hears out of the many-minded and much test Odysseus which gives the twenty-four Books their axis...read more

Product Description: Beginning with a diagnosis of the current state of American classical philology, John Peradotto proceeds to concentrate on textual practices of naming and narrating in the Odyssey from a perspective that blends traditional philological with semiotic and narratological techniques...read more

Product Description: The Iliad came into existence to be heard from start to finish. While this is generally accepted in theory, the poem has not been properly studied in light of what this means in practice. Many connections, which are not obvious when the poem is read, become prominent if it is approached as an oral and aural creation, particularly if the poem is divided into three segments, probably a product of three night-long sessions of performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In composing his masterpiece, the Aeneid, Vergil used colors as none of his predecessors had done. In place of the largely formulaic and functional employment of color, Vergil wove a complex network of chromatic allusions, linking episode to episode, developing a set of color themes or «chords» which strongly influence the reader's response to key passages in the epic...read more

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Product Description: This study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus demonstrates the applicability of narrative models to drama. It presents a major contribution not only to Sophoclean criticism but to dramatic criticism as a whole. For the first time, the methods of contemporary narrative theory are thoroughly applied to the text of a single major play...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Extending his distinctive analysis of Homeric epic to the Iliad, Bruce Louden, author of The "Odyssey": Structure, Narration, and Meaning, again presents new approaches to understanding the themes and story of the poem. In this thought-provoking study, he demonstrates how repeated narrative motifs argue for an expanded understanding of the structure of epic poetry...read more

Product Description: Pindar's victory odes have suffered from a curious lack of interest on the part of poststructuralism. Even a first, relatively superficial reading of the surviving corpus, however, reveals an intense interest in and exploitation of rhetorical figures and tropes, and an element of autoreferential self-questioning that throughout the history of Pindaric scholarship has attracted much comment...read more

Product Description: Il volume presenta l'analisi letteraria e l'analisi retorica della Lettera agli Efesini. La grammatica e la sintassi della Lettera non si discostano molto dallo stile delle lettere paoline, mentre il contenuto e basato su una teologia trinitaria, con al centro la cristologia, e su una parentesi epidittica, che cerca di mostrare la coerenza tra il vivere quotidiano e la professione della propria fede...read more