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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Greek Epic"”.
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Homer in the Perfect Tense: The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Poetics of Impersonation
… part of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History. This project seeks to give the first cultural-historical analysis of the large, underexploited corpus of Greek epic poetry composed in the transformative period between the 1st and the 6th …
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The Burning of Restoran and Other Stories
… is a novella that combines ancient Serbian and Greek epic style oral history and contemporary mythology. The themes in this piece all harken back to ones that stir the soul: war, trauma, music, water, and family. The rest of the stories in this collection, “Twin,” “Groundwork,” “Facts about …
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Hearts, Bellies, and the Hunger of Heroes: Intertraditional Agonistic Discourse between the Iliad and Odyssey
… of sub-genres within the larger archaic Greek epic tradition, engage in a shared agonistic discourse with one another in order to demonstrate that the hero of each epic is superior to that of its competitor. In order to trace this agonistic discourse, I examine the manner in which each …
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Battle narrative in Virgil and Ovid
… thesis is to examine the stylistics of Latin epic narrative as used to narrate and describe extended battle sequences, and to explore the way in which Latin authors working during the Augustan Era engaged with Homeric techniques of oral narrative while composing written epic. A total of six …
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Weeping and <i>Virtus</i> in Early Imperial Roman Epic
… feminized when they weep? It is well-known that Greek epic heroes like Odysseus weep without losing their claim to masculinity; does the same rule hold true for Roman epic heroes? In this dissertation I examine how men weep in Roman epic poetry of the early Roman empire as an aspect of the …
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Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
This thesis is concerned with early Greek literary history and the nature of archaic Greek allusion. It examines how our earliest Greek poets self-consciously marked and signalled their interactions with other texts and traditions, often in a deeply antagonistic fashion. In recent years, scholars …