Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic

Informationen zum Autor DEBORAH BECK is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Homeric Conversation (2005) and Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic (2012). She is also the producer of 'Musings in Greek Literature,' a podcast featuring the work of advanced Greek students reading ancient Greek poetry at the University of Texas at Austin. Zusammenfassung Explores what kind of stories emerge from classical epic when similes are front and center. Combines the interdisciplinary field of embodied cognition with literary analyses of Classical epic similes to show how the distinctive themes of an individual poem emerge from the experiences that similes create. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Homer Odyssey: heroism, home, and family; 2. Homer Iliad: leadership and loss; 3. Apollonius Argonautica: gender, emotion, and the limits of human skill; 4. Vergil Aeneid: rage and isolation; 5. Ovid Metamorphoses: stories of Eros and Epic.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Beck, Deborah (University of Texas Beck, Beck Deborah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781108481793
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48179-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; POETRY / General, Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc