Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Pindars sechste olympische Siegesode
Pindar’s Sixth Olympian Ode is considered one of the poet’s most brilliant victory odes. This is the first full-scale commentary on it. Adorjáni presents Greek text with critical apparatus, translation and metrical analysis. Three introductory chapters treat matters of history (background, date, performance) and literary criticism. Then follows a verse-by-verse commentary rooted in the tradition of philological exegesis, concentrating on grammatical, stylistic and interpretive features. Until now the Sixth Olympian has been praised chiefly for its magnificent and lucid presentation of the myth of Iamos, a seer of Arcadian origin and ancestor of the prophetic clan of the Iamidae. This co...
The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes"
The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo’s cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher’s 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive ...
Re-Imagining Nature
Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world’s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present. This text sets out to explore what a properly Christian approach to natural theology might look like and how this relates to alternative interpretations of our experience of the natural world Alister McGrath is ideally placed to write the book as one of the world’s best known theologians and a chief proponent of natural theology This new work offers an account of the development of natural theology throughout history and informs of its likely contribution in the present This feeds in current debates about the relationship between science and religion, and religion and the humanities Engages in serious theological dialogue, primarily with Augustine, Aquinas, Barth and Brunner, and includes the work of natural scientists, philosophers of science, and poets
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography
The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With the understanding that mythography remains a contested category, that its borders are not always clear, and that it shifted with changes in the socio-cultural and political landscapes, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography offers a range of scholarly voices that attempt to establish how and to what extent ancient writers followed the "mythographical mindset" that prompted works ranging from Apollodorus' Library to the rationalizi...
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers an updated translation of the text and an investigation of the main interpretative issues of the epinicion with the aid of historical linguistics. By identifying devices which Pindar might have inherited from earlier periods of poetic language, the study provides insights into the thematic aspects of the ode as well as on Pindar’s compositional technique.
Kallimachos’ ›Ektheosis Arsinoes‹ in der Tradition griechischer Herrscherenkomiastik
Das vorliegende Buch ist eine eingehende philologische Untersuchung zur auf einem Berliner Papyrus fragmentarisch überlieferten Ektheosis Arsinoes des Kallimachos, einem höfischen Gelegenheitsgedicht über den Tod der ptolemäischen Königin Arsinoe II. Es bietet eine neue kritische Ausgabe auf Grundlage der Autopsie des Originals sowie einen ausführlichen Zeilenkommentar, in dem über sprachliche Details hinaus eine ganzheitliche Rekonstruktion des Trauergedichts angestrebt wird. Die umfangreiche Einleitung bestimmt Gattung und Stellung des Gedichts im kallimacheischen Werk und leuchtet im Zusammenhang damit das im Hintergrund stehende breite Allusionsfeld aus. Dies führt zu einer synoptischen Behandlung der Tradition griechischer Herrscherenkomien. Darin kommt der Ektheosis eine Schlüsselrolle zu: Indem Kallimachos von seinem alexandrinischen Blickwinkel aus die Gesamtheit der Traditionslinien überschaut und für kommende Zeiten entscheidende Impulse gibt, bietet er einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Gattung. Dadurch wird das Buch nicht zuletzt auch zu einer Studie der auf Herrscher bezogenen (zeit)politischen Dichtung der Griechen.
Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the influence of archaic lyric poetry on Hellenistic poets. However, no study has yet examined the reception of Pindar, the most prominent of the lyric poets, in the poetry of this period. This monograph is the first book to offer a systematic examination of the evidence for the reception of Pindar in the works of Callimachus of Cyrene, Theocritus of Syracuse, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidippus of Pella. Through a series of case studies, it argues that Pindaric poetry exercised a considerable influence on a variety of Hellenistic genres: epinician elegies and epigrams, hymns, encomia, and epic poetry. For the poets active at the courts of...
The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis
Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis’ death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh approach to understanding the key themes at the centre of Lewis’ theological work and intellectual development. Brings together a collection of original essays exploring important themes within Lewis’ work, offering new connections and insights into his theology Throws new light on subjects including Lewis’ intellectual development, the uses of images in literature and theology, the place of myth in modern thought, the role of the imagination in making sense of the world, the celebrated 'argument from desire', and Lewis’ place as an Anglican thinker and a Christian theologian Written by Alister McGrath, one of the world’s leading Christian thinkers and authors; this exceptional pairing of McGrath and Lewis brings together the work of two outstanding theologians in one volume
Mare nostrum – mare meum
Welche Bedeutung haben Seeherrschaftsvorstellungen für die Repräsentation von Macht, insbesondere im Fall von politischer Herrschaft? Und welche Entwicklungen lassen sich von der Beherrschbarkeit des Meeres als “anthropologischer Grundleistung”, wie sie in Mythos und Dichtung ihren Niederschlag findet, hin zur Funktionalisierung von Herrschaftsrepräsentation von der klassischen griechischen Antike über die römische Republik und die Kaiserzeit bis in die Spätantike feststellen? Dieser Frage gehen die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge unter Einbeziehung verschiedener methodischer Zugriffe (philologisch-literaturwissenschaftlicher wie historischer) nach. Die Bezugnahme auf das Mee...
