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Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek lit-erature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics – text, orality,myth,literacy,tradition,andmemorization–andthenshows how such special topics relate to larger issues of cultural transmission from ...
The great ancient Greek epics were originally empowered by both nascent writing systems and massive earlier feats of oral memory. By the time of the Peisistratid recension, putting these texts together in the late seventh century, an elegant and efficient alphabetic system, which Greek was, was in place and had been
In this book one of the world’s leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry.
10 lip 2018 · In ‘Constructions of Hellenism through Printing and Editorial Choices’, Natasha Constantinidou discusses how the French scholar Adrien de Turnèbe (1512–1565) constructed his view of Hellenism through the Greek works he edited and published during the short period in which he served as royal printer in Greek (1551–1555).
Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.
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
At least six meanings of ‘writing’ can be distinguished: (1) a system of recording language by means of visible or tactile marks; (2) the activity of putting such a system to use; (3) the result of such activity, a text; (4) the particular form of such a result, a script style such as block letter writing; (5) artistic composition; (6) a profess...
