Transgendering Clytemnestra
Many Greek tragedies have mysteriously evaded the controlling influence of time; they are read today with as much admiration and emotion as they would have inspired in their first audiences.
The Trojan Exodus: The Initiation of a Nation
The second book of the Aeneid, a familiar and favourite reading of a number of Latin stu- dents, focuses on the drama that unfolded during the last night of Troy.
The Trojan Exodus: The Initiation of a Nation
The second book of the Aeneid, a familiar and favourite reading of a number of Latin stu- dents, focuses on the drama that unfolded during the last night of Troy.
The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon
Sparta, the mythological birthplace and home of the Homeric heroine, was alleged to have worshiped her at two sites, at a shrine within the polis and at a shrine several kilometers outside the polis.8 We know very little about the former shrine, but the latter has been archaeologically attested; the partial walls and foundations of a fifth-century BCE monument to Helen of Sparta and her husband Menelaos, known as the Menelaion, have been recovered on a ridge near the west bank of the Eurotas.
Intrigue, Blood, and Naked Breasts: Strategies of the Epic Series on Premium Cable
The epic, in particular the sword-
Exile in Homeric Epic
This dissertation examines exile in Homeric epic and in particular the relationship between exile as a narrative motif and the thematic significance of exile in specific contexts.
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets Richard P.Martin (Stanford) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: April (2007) Abstract This paper attempts to…
Religion in Roman Historiography and Epic
It is now impossible for us to know how—or even whether—the Romans represented divine action and religious practice in narrative or song before they began their project of adapting Greek literary forms into a national literature of their own in the second half of the third century BC.
Tiberiana 2: Tales of Brave Ulysses
The prime evidence for this was discovered fifty years ago in the numerous fragments of four massive sculptural groups in marble, found by chance in 1957 in a seaside cavern which was part of a large villa complex on the coast at Sperlonga, 65 miles south of Rome.
Vergil's Aeneid VIII and the Shield of Aeneas: recurrent topics and cyclic structures
An analysis of Book VIII of Vergil’s Aeneid will result in the observation that this book forms a cyclus in the way that it ends as it starts, the preparations being underway for the war against Mezentius. Inside this frame, two units, the first larger than the second, concentrate on the topics of Hercules’ connection with Rome and the shield of Aeneas.