Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Ancient & Classical

At the centre of the commentary on Book 19 of the Iliad is the interpretation of the speeches and events at the assembly of the Achaean army at which the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon was settled, thus enabling the Achaeans to take the field in the decisive battle against Hector and the Trojans.

Im Zentrum des Kommentars zum 24. Ilias-Gesang steht die Interpretation einer der spannendsten und bewegendsten Szenen der Ilias: wie sich der Troianerkonig Priamos auf den Weg zu seinem Todfeind Achilleus macht, durch dessen Hand sein Sohn Hektor gefallen war; wie der Gott Hermes den alten Mann beinahe marchenhaft ins Heereslager der Griechen fuhrt; wie Achilleus am Ende einer emotionalen Begegnung Priamos zum Essen einladt und ihm den Leichnam Hektors zur Bestattung uberlat.

Die Hekale des hellenistischen Dichters Kallimachos stellt eines der bekanntesten Kleinepen der griechischen Literatur dar und fand als solches groen Anklang in der Antike. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung steht die bisher nur selten gestellte und daher nicht ausreichend behandelte Frage nach dem Verhaltnis der Hekale zu dem homerischen Epos, und zwar zur Odyssee. Den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen zufolge stellt sich heraus, dass die Odyssee ebenso deutlich wie nachhaltig die Sprache, die Figurenkonstellation des hellenistischen Miniaturepos wie auch die gesamte Struktur dessen Handlung...

This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of "The Lays of Marie de France"; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lays; two anonymous Breton lays---"The Lay of Melion" and "The Lay of Tyolet"; a glossary of proper names; a glossary of specialized terms; and an appendix of selected texts in the Old French, including Marie's "Prologue," "Guigemar," "Bisclavret," and "Yonec."

The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henryson's finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literature, is the narrative Testament of Cresseid. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, the Testament completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, offering a tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover, Diomede, and of her subsequent decline into prostitution and...

This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. The poet Peter of Blois was proclaimed by a contemporary of his to be a master composer of rhythmic verse. Peter's secular love-lyrics gathered in the Arundel manuscript give substance to that claim. Written with a technical virtuosity that rivals the metrical display of Horatian lyric, the poems give eloquent and learned expression to the cult of secular love that emerged in the twelfth -century.

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Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation. "Georgic" means "to work the earth," and this poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with exuberant fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It describes hills strewn with wild berries in 'vine-spread autumn'; recommends watching the stars to determine the right time to plant seeds; and gives guidance on making wine and keeping bees. Yet...