The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad
Title | The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad PDF eBook |
Author | Homer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 92 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN |
The Birds in the Iliad
Title | The Birds in the Iliad PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Johansson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN | 9789173467124 |
As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, "nature" and "culture", the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. The investigation aims at determining the various species of the birds in the Iliad as far as this is possible with the help of ornithological methods and tries through semiotics and hermeneutics to ascertain the symbolic.
Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age
Title | Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Joakim Goldhahn |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2019-10-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1108499090 |
Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.
The Antiquary
Title | The Antiquary PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Walford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Antiquities |
ISBN |
The Iliad of Homer
Title | The Iliad of Homer PDF eBook |
Author | Homer |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 2022-06-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3375039131 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.
Shameless
Title | Shameless PDF eBook |
Author | Cristiana Franco |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2014-09-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520957423 |
The figure of the dog is a paradox. As in so many cultures, past and present, the dog in ancient Greece was seen as the animal closest to humans, even as it elicited from them the most negative representations. Still a loaded term today, the word bitch not only signified shamelessness and a lack of self-control but was also exclusively figured as female. Woman and dogs in the Greek imagination were intimately intertwined, and in this careful, engaging analysis, Cristiana Franco explores the ancients' complex relationship with both. By analyzing the relationship between humans and dogs as depicted in a vast array of myths, proverbs, spontaneous metaphors, and comic jokes, Franco in particular shows how the symbolic overlap between dog and woman provided the conceptual tools to maintain feminine subordination. Intended for general readers as well as scholars, Shameless extends the boundaries of classics and anthropology, forming a model of the sensitive work that can be done to illuminate how deeply animals are imbricated in human history. The English translation has been revised and expanded from the original Italian edition, and it includes a new methodological appendix by the author that points the way toward future work in the emerging field of human-animal studies.
The Artistry of the Homeric Simile
Title | The Artistry of the Homeric Simile PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Scott |
Publisher | UPNE |
Total Pages | 441 |
Release | 2012-01-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611682290 |
An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile