Nature, culture, and the origins of greek Ccmedy

a study of animal choruses

Aristophanes' Birds, Wasps, and Frogs offer the best-known examples of the animal choruses of Greek comedy of the fifth century BC, but sixth- century vase-paintings of men costumed as cocks, bulls, and horses indicated that comedies were only the last phase of a longer tradition ...

Oxford readings in the attic orators

The 'Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial. The essays in this volume explore that formative linkage, representing the main directions of recent work on the ...

Xenophon on gevernment

Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found under ...

Ancient Greek scholarship

a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnigs to the Byzantine Period

"Ancient Greek Scholarship" is the only introduction to this important and fast-growing field, with information on all aspects of using and reading ancient scholarship. It includes discussions of all major works, explanation of grammarians' Greek, over 200 passages with commentary, glossary of 1500 grammatical terms ...

A guide to hellenistic literature

This book is a guide to the Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE. It demonstrates how, during this period, Greek culture spread to Egypt and the Near ...

Une leçon de vie

les réflexions générales dans le théâtre de Sophocle

La littérature grecque ancienne répond plus directement que la plupart des livres contemporains aux questions existentielles que peut se poser l#homme d#aujourd#hui : comment donner un sens à sa vie ? Comment se comporter dans l#adversité ? Pourquoi le malheur et l#injustice ? Le ...

Rediscovering Homer

inside the origins of the epic

Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the "Odyssey and the Iliad", and asks new questions about the poet Homer. Dalby follows the growth of the legend of Troy from its kernel of historical truth and retraces the succession of singers who ...

Teofanía

el espíritu de la antigua religión griega

En este breve y contundente texto #publicado en 1956 en la Rowohlts Deutsche Enzyclopädie#, el destacado filólogo alemán Walter F. Otto, autor de Los dioses de Grecia (1929), hace un rescate de la religión griega, vista no como consecuencia de una «ilusión primitiva» o de ...

El saber del error

filosofía y tragedia en Sófocles

En buena medida, la tradición filosófica occidental ha consistido en una reflexión sobre temas trágicos y, muchas veces, sobre la naturaleza misma de lo trágico. De ahí que quizás no quepa ya recuperar una mirada ingenua sobre la tragedia, una mirada ajena a toda filosofía ...

Cultura neogriega

tradición y modernidad: Actas del III Congreso de Neohelenistas de Iberoamérica (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2 de junio-5 de junio de 2005)

Paideia de l'alogos dans la pensée pédagogique platonicienne de la Rápublique aux Lois

To the origins of Greek stenography

(P. Monts. Roca I)

INDEX: I. The Montserrat Codex Miscellaneus (Inv. nos. 126-178, 292, 338).II. General remarks on the Montserrat word list. III. The text of the Montserrat word list. IV. Concordance of the Commentary papyri. V. Greek Shorthand manual Reconstruction. VI. Annotations to the Montserrat word list ...

Koinòs lògos

homenaje al profesor José García López

S-stem nouns and adjetives in greek and proto-indo-european

a diachronic study in world formation

This book deals with one aspect of Greek and Proto-Indo-European nominal morphology, the formation, inflection and semantics of s-stem nouns and adjectives. It uncovers the mechanisms of their creation and shows their limitation. The established view that the nouns are an unproductive category is challenged ...

Les rêves dans la tragédie grecque

En 1976, lorsque George Devereux publie Dreanis in Greek Tragedy (dont le présent ouvrage est la traduction française tant attendue), la psychanalyse n'a pas encore exploré tous les champs du savoir et son introduction dans le domaine des études antiques est relativement récente : les ...

La Sauvagerie dans la poésie grecque d'Homère à Eschyle

Lorsque les caprices de la mer et du vent font échouer son navire sur une nouvelle terre, Ulysse se demande, à propos de ses habitants : " Sont-ils des insolents, des hommes sauvages et sans justice, ou des gens hospitaliers, dont l'esprit craint les dieux ? " Cette ...

Maestro y sabio

homenaje al profesor Juan Jiméne Fernández

Este libro es el reconocimiento de los amigos e instituciones giennenses al Profesor Jiménez por su labor docente e investigadora. Genuino cultivador de las disciplinas filológicas, desde el estudio de los textos griegos al de los poetas actuales, Juan Jim´nez estudia el léxico griego ...

Les sauvageons d'Athènes

ou la didactique du rire chez Aristophane

Comment Aristophane tentait-il de faire rire de ce qui faisait peur dans la vie politique athénienne ? A vingt-cinq siècles de distance, une étonnante affinité apparaît entre les peurs que suscitent actuellement les " jeunes " des banlieues françaises et les fantasmes liés à l'éphébie athénienne, troublante ...

The dance of the Muses

choral theory and Ancient Greek poetics

This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and ...

Rediscovering Homer

inside the origins of the epic

Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the "Odyssey" and the "Iliad", and asks new questions about the poet Homer. Dalby follows the growth of the legend of Troy from its kernel of historical truth and retraces the succession of singers who ...