By James C. Fernald

English Synonyms and Antonyms

By Jenny Strauss Clay

Relocating clear of the verbal and thematic repetitions that experience ruled Homeric reviews and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this hugely cutting edge and available learn specializes in the visible poetics of the Iliad because the narrative is anticipated via the poet and rendered obvious. It does so via an in depth research of the often-neglected 'Battle Books'. They the following grow to be a coherently visualized narrative series instead of as a random sequence of combats, and this method unearths, for example, the importance of Sarpedon's assault at the Achaean Wall and Patroclus' route to destruction. moreover, Professor Strauss Clay indicates new methods of drawing close old narratives: not just with one's ear, but additionally with one's eyes. She extra argues that the loci process of mnemonics, frequently attributed to Simonides, is already totally exploited via the Iliad poet to maintain tune of his forged of characters and to arrange his narrative.

By Bhatta Jayanta, Csaba Dezső

This play satirizes a number of religions in Kashmir and their position within the politics of King Shankaravarman (883–902). The top personality is a tender and dynamic orthodox graduate, whose occupation starts off as a wonderful crusade opposed to the heretic Buddhists, Jains, and different delinquent sects. by way of the top of the play he realizes that the pursuits of the monarch don't inspire such inquisitional rigor.Unique in Sanskrit literature, Jay?nta Bhatta's play, a lot Ado approximately faith, is a curious mix of fiction and background, of scathing satire and fascinating philosophical argumentation. The play satirizes numerous religions in Kashmir and their position within the politics of King Sh?nkara·varman (883-902 CE). The major personality, Sank?rshana, is a tender and dynamic orthodox graduate of Vedic reviews, whose profession starts off as an excellent crusade opposed to the heretic Buddhists, Jains and different delinquent sects.Co-published via long island collage Press and the JJC FoundationFor extra in this name and different titles within the Clay Sanskrit sequence, please stopover at http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

By Ursula Dronke

This new version of mythological poems from the Poetic Edda takes the reader deep into the mind's eye of the Viking poets (c.1000 AD). atmosphere textual content and translation facet by way of facet, Dronke presents complete introductions and commentaries for every of the poems.

By David Wray

This literary learn of the first-century BCE Roman poet, Catullus makes use of units of comparative types to provide a brand new figuring out of his poems. the 1st comprises cultural anthropological bills of male social interplay within the premodern Mediterranean, and the second one, the postmodern poetics of such twentieth-century poets as Louis Zukofsky, that are characterised by way of simultaneous juxtaposition, a "collage" aesthetic, and self-allusive play. The ebook may be of curiosity to scholars of comparative literature and gender reports in addition to to classicists.

By Colin Austin, S. Douglas Olson

Thesmophoriazusae was once played in Athens in 411 BCE, probably on the urban Dionysia, and is likely one of the so much impressive of Aristophanes' 11 surviving comedies. it's the tale of the the most important second in a quarrelbetween the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' girls, who accuse him of slandering them in his performs and are keeping a gathering at one in all their mystery fairs to set a penalty for his crimes. Thesmophoriazusae is a brilliantly artistic comedy, choked with wild slapstick humour and devastating literary parody, and is a easy resource for questions of gender and sexuality in overdue 5th-century Athens and for the preferred reception of Euripidean tragedy. Austin and Olson supply a textual content in accordance with a clean exam of the papyri and manuscripts, and an in depth statement protecting a variety of literary, ancient, and philological matters. The advent comprises sections at the date and ancient atmosphere of the play; the Thesmophoria competition; Aristophanes' dealing with of Euripidean tragedy; staging; Thesmophoriazusae II; and the background of recent serious paintings at the textual content. All Greek within the advent and remark no longer brought up for technical purposes is translated.

By Gail Ashton

During this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking research, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of girls saints in a variety of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist severe idea of Cixous and Iriguray to light up those depictions of girls by way of males and to extra our knowing of either the lives and deeds of lady saints and the modern, and quite often male, attitudes to them.