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Author : Laurialan Reitzammer
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299308200
A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.
Author : Jeffrey Beneker
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0299328406
The famous polymath Plutarch often discussed the relationship between spouses in his works, including Marriage Advice, Dialogue on Love, and many of the Parallel Lives. In this collection, leading scholars explore the marital views expressed in Plutarch's works and the art, philosophy, and literature produced by his contemporaries and predecessors. Through aesthetically informed and sensitive modes of analysis, these contributors examine a wealth of representations—including violence in weddings and spousal devotion after death. The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World demonstrates the varying conceptions of an institution that was central to ancient social and political life—and remains prominent in the modern world. This volume will contribute to scholars' understanding of the era and fascinate anyone interested in historic depictions of marriage and the role and status of women in the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.
Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 113436508X
It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, worshipped new and exotic deities, used magic for both erotic and pain-relieving purposes, and far more besides. Clear and comprehensive, this volume challenges many stereotypes of Greek women and offers unexpected insights into their experience of religion. With more than fifty illustrations, and translated extracts from contemporary texts, this is an essential resource for the study of women and religion in classical Greece.
Author : Clara S. Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 9780472054466
On a summer night in 415 BCE, unknown persons systematically mutilated most of the domestic "herms"--guardian statues of the god Hermes--in Athens. The reaction was immediate and extreme: the Athenians feared a terrifying conspiracy was underway against the city and its large fleet--and possibly against democracy itself. The city established a board of investigators, which led to informants, accusations, and flight by many of the accused. Ultimately, dozens were exiled or executed, their property confiscated. This dramatic period offers the opportunity to observe the city in crisis. Sequential events allow us to see the workings of the major institutions of the city (assembly, council, law courts, and theater, as well as public and private religion). Remarkably, the primary sources for these tumultuous months name conspirators from a very wide range of status-groups: citizens, women, slaves, and free residents. Thus the incident provides a particularly effective entry-point into a full multifaceted view of the way Athens worked in the late fifth century. Designed for classroom use, Athens 415 is no potted history, but rather a source-based presentation of ancient urban life ideal for the study of a people and their institutions and beliefs. Original texts--all translated by poet Robert B. Hardy--are presented along with thoughtful discussion and analyses by Clara Shaw Hardy in an engaging narrative that draws students into Athens' crisis.
Author : Adriana E. Brook
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0299313808
An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299306046
By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. Historians of late antiquity have struggled to explain the fictional date and authorship of the work and its bizarre content (did the Emperor Carinus really swim in pools of floating apples and melons? did the usurper Proculus really deflower a hundred virgins in fifteen days?). David Rohrbacher offers, instead, a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions. Marshaling an array of interdisciplinary research and original analysis, he contends that the Historia Augusta originated in a circle of scholarly readers with an interest in biography, and that its allusions and parodies were meant as puzzles and jokes for a knowing and appreciative audience.
Author : Barbara Goff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0520239989
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Author : Eftychia Stavrianopoulou
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Greece
ISBN :
Klassisches Altertum - Ritual - Kult - Gesellschaft.
Author : Angus M. Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 1993-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521440127
This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the plays. This information is then used to suggest ways in which twentieth-century audiences may read the plays in terms of contemporary literary theories and concerns. This is the first book to apply the techniques of structural anthropology systematically to all the comedies. It does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays but argues that each play operates with a range of different structures, and that groups of plays use similar structures in different ways. All Greek is translated.