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Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture: language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class structure; gender
This demands some linguistic analysis. For the Homeric Greeks, inspiration is synonymous with “breath,” and the most common verbs and corresponding nouns (and cognates) in Homer (and early Greek poetry) to convey this notion are derived from the root *pnu- (breathe).5 These include first and foremost pneiô and pnoiê (the poetic forms of ...
Greek concept of poetic inspiration. It seems to me that there are in particular two theoretical issues in need of analysis, both fundamental to our understanding of ancient views of poetic creativity. The first is the frequent assumption that inspiration necessarily involves ecstasy or possession, and that the inspired poet
WRITING AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK LITERATURE. Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek lit-erature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing.
Lenin’s language was the clearest example of such a revolutionary (poetic) deployment of practical language. A special issue of the journal LEF published in 1924 under the title “Lenin’s Language” was devoted to a study of the political language of the revolutionary subject.
11 paź 2013 · It is generally agreed that the concept of inspiration is one of the most basic and persistent of Greek notions about poetry. Yet there appears to be a certain confusion on the significance of this observation.
20 gru 2018 · This chapter discusses the philosophical importance of Lenin’s thought. It reevaluates Lenin’s philosophical legacy by examining his major and perhaps most controversial philosophical work, Materialism and Empiriocriticism. A sympathetic yet critical...
