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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Trojan War"”.
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Attitudes towards Paganism in Medieval Irish and Old Norse Texts of the Trojan War
… the Old Norse Trójumanna saga (‘The Story of the Trojans’; first half of the thirteenth century), which are both based on Dares Phrygius’s Late Antique De excidio Troiae historia. The two vernacular adaptations are presented in the wider context of the medieval popularity of Dares’s text. The …
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Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
… to the larger Greek world. Because the Persian Wars were often treated as parallel with the Trojan War, Athens could propagandize its role in the Battle of Salamis by articulating the Ajax myth as an exemplum. The scope of the Ajax myth also provided Athens with a means to address its political …
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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… comic mode to the reception of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England. For a period characterised by a singular fascination with exemplarity, the Trojan myth offered an important depiction of men’s pursuit of distinction, providing both the exempla of male virtue and the ways of …
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Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides
… begins to examine the role of Andromache in the Trojan War saga and tradition by providing an in-depth analysis of Andromache in the Iliad, Euripides’ Andromache and Euripides’ Trojan Women. Using theories of character derived from the narratological study of modern fiction, it strives to draw …
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Viewing Helen of Sparta and Draupadi of Pancala: A Comparative Approach
… Draupadī of Pāñcāla in the Mahābhārata. The Trojan War in the Iliad and the devastating war in the Mahābhārata reveal a similar myth that appears in the Cypria of the Epic Cycle and the first book of the Mahābhārata itself. Similarly, Helen in the Iliad and Draupadī in the Mahābhārata are …
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A Study of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis as Early Imperial Greek Texts and Late Antique Latin Translations
… revisionism, focusing on Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan Oration and Philostratus’ Heroicus. It argues that many of Dares’ narrative elements were influenced by Dio’s rationalistic critique of Homer’s account, and that Philostratus in many respects responds to Dictys, correcting facts, borrowing …
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The Trojans of the North - The Trojan matter and the End of the Icelandic Commonwealth
The thesis focuses on the reception of the Trojan matter in medieval Iceland. This was a popular theme in Icelandic literature in the period known as the Sturlungaöld (‘the age of the Sturlungar’), which ended with Iceland becoming subject to Norwegian dominion in 1264, and beyond. The Icelandic …
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Der Troische Krieg in der nachhomerischen Literatur bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
… Innovative Änderungen lassen sich durch die gegenwartsorientierten Wirkungsabsichten der Autoren erklären. Der Mythos des Troischen Krieges eignet sich in jeder Zeit zu einer Selbstreflexion von Gesellschaftsgruppen, weil er als alte, überlieferte Geschichte zur Abstrahierung und Symbolisierung …