Anton Bierl,Menelaos Christopoulos,Athina Papachrysostomou's Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture PDF

By Anton Bierl,Menelaos Christopoulos,Athina Papachrysostomou

ISBN-10: 3110534193

ISBN-13: 9783110534191

From Homer to Sophocles and Greek center Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this quantity incorporates a panoramic and cross-generic evaluate of the various dealing with and advert hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this quantity written by way of a world crew of esteemed students supply an equivalent variety of hermeneutic ways to person, certain elements of Greek and Latin literature. the quantity is purposely designed now not as a linear exhibit of data, yet quite as an anthology of opt for paradigms that objective to illustrate the multidimensional functionality and multifaceted position of the dual notions of "time" and "space" all through historical Greek and Latin literary texts. the amount opens with analyses of conspicuous circumstances from epic poetry, proceeds with examples from drama (tragedy and comedy), and concludes with different circumstances of chronotopes (empirical, imaginary, or even transferring ones), in a number of literary genres.

The quantity is of maximum relevance because it meets the cultural and theoretical developments of today’s Classics. It for that reason will allure not just the curiosity of specialized Classicists however it can also be meant for a much broader common readership.

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