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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Greek Lyric"”.
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In Search of Present Time: Reading Carpe Diem
… the archaeology of carpe diem. I look at the Greeks’ own discourse of the past and how they constructed the origins of the motif. My focus is the hedonistic epitaph of the legendary last king of Assyria, Sardanapallus, and an epigrammatic tradition that can be linked to this epitaph. Two …
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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures
… fables, and numerous oral figures of speech in Greek lyric poetry often incorporate animals in their figurative language. Likewise, Kalanga folktales, proverbs, and other didactic modes attest to the importance of animals within this culture as vehicles to teach moral lessons. This tendency is …
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Wind, Wave, and Generative Metaphor in Greek
… that the more sophisticated trope of Archaic lyric poetry is an elaboration of a larger cognitive metaphor that appears in the earliest Greek texts.
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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 …