Ancient Classical category: 1324 books

La monumentale e lussureggiante architettura di uno dei piú importanti poemi epici dell’antichità classica, in una nuova suggestiva traduzione in endecasillabi sciolti. Dall’origine del cosmo all’instaurazione del regno di Zeus, Esiodo accompagna il lettore moderno attraverso un viaggio affascinante...

Extrait : De la nature de la morale. Elle fait partie de la politique. — Il faut étudier la vertu surtout à un point de vue pratique, afin de la connaître et de l’acquérir. — Travaux antérieurs : Pythagore, Socrate, Platon ; défauts de leurs théories....

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Plotin (205-270) a cinquante-neuf ans quand il rencontre Porphyre (234-305 env.), qui demeure avec lui pendant six ans et qui, après sa mort, réunit ses œuvres en cinquante-quatre livres, partagés en six Ennéades. Une...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Tribun et magistrat romain, Cicéron (106-43 av. J.-C.) s’est fait le théoricien de l’éloquence, principalement dans le De Oratore (55 av. J.-C.), somme de l’art oratoire en trois livres, reçue depuis la Renaissance...

De l’épopée antique à la moderne fantasy, en passant par la chanson de geste et les multiples formes prises par le conte, ce Dossier Universalis dont les articles sont empruntés à l’Encyclopaedia Universalis dit l’essentiel sur une famille de genres et d’œuvres littéraires qui font...

Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy—and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But...

Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with Translation as Muse, she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus to mount a powerful argument that translation can...

Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage....

Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics,...

Fiesta de Aranjuez en honor de Azorín constituye un documento imprescindible para entender la génesis de la Generación del 14 y el desarrollo del movimiento intelectual español. Organizada por José Ortega y Gasset y Juan Ramón Jiménez y celebrada en el espléndido marco de los Jardines de Aranjuez...

"The ""Cort d'Amor"" is a late 12th-century allegorical romance in Occitan which fuses a variety of lyric and narrative genres together and which predates the ""Roman de la Rose"" by some 50 years. In this edition, Matthew Bardell highlights the work's...

Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era...

Scholarship on Plato's dialogues persistently divides its focus between the dramatic or literary and the philosophical or argumentative dimensions of the texts. But this hermeneutic division of labor is naïve, for Plato's arguments are embedded in dramatic dialogues and developed through complex,...

Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events. Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works.