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Ovid's Epyllia: Genres Within A Genre, Marilyn Pechillo

Dissertations

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Energeia In The Enneads Of Plotinus: A Reaction To Plato And Aristotle, Curtis L. Hancock

Dissertations

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Review Of Mandelbaum's Odyssey Of Homer, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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A Land Lease From The Michigan Collection, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

Edition of P.Mich. inv. 632.

Horace, Maecenas And Odes 2.17, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

Few of Horace's Odes have occasioned as little recent critical commentary as his poetic pledge to die along with Maecenas. Although a profitable direction for analysis was indicated by Meineke's outraged condemnation of the fourth stanza and PEERLKAMP'S even earlier obelization of a full five of the poem's eight stanzas, the road most commonly taken by critics has been to ignore this ode altogether, or to mention it in passing only. Of the most recent studies on Horace, only FRAENKEL and (necessarily) NISBET and HUBBARD'S exhaustive commentary on Odes II meet the poem head on.

Critics' difficulties with the ode …

A Penthemeros Certificate From The Berkeley Collection, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

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Greek And Roman Elements In Horace's Lyric Program, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

The vision of Horatian scholars into the nature of Horace's 'Odes' has for many years been obscured by a number of disputes concerning both his use of Greek literary models, classical and Alexandrian, and his poetic judgment of his Latin predecessors and contemporaries, the neoterics and elegists. It is ironic (though the eclectic Horace might well have found it amusing) that one of the first self-proclaimed literary critics of the Western tradition has left posterity in such doubt about where precisely he himself, as poet, fits into the trends and currents of literary history.

The Literary Structure Of The Genesis Creation Story, Jacques Doukhan

Dissertations

Exegetical research on Gen 1 has been characterized since the 18th century essentially by a diachronic concern. Thus the Documentary hypothesis and the so-called Tatbericht-Wortbericht theory have been the two main starting points of any relevant scholarly study of this text. Recently, under the influence of contemporary literary studies, attention has been drawn to the validity of the synchronic approach, and more and more scholars have thus become aware of the importance of the liteary structure of this text. The latter has been dissociated from the thematic distribution of motifs; this tension has been explained in terms of different sources, …

The Psychomachia By Marcus Aurelius Prudentius, Translated From Latin With An Introduction, Peter Johnson

English Faculty Publications

This Masters thesis is an introduction to and prose translation of Prudentius’s Psychomachia. In the introduction, besides discussing personification allegory, I suggest that the synthesis of classical and Christian elements in the Psychomachia is a response to the historical phenomena of the times. The conflict between the Christian and pagan elements is important because it mirrors the action of the poem itself, in which the soul tries to cope with the presence of two battling opposite forces: the Virtues and the Vices. This internalized soul conflict is a personalized representation of 4^th Century Church history, during which intellectuals …

Oracula Mortis In The Pharsalia, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Although it departs from epic convention in many ways, most notably in the rejection of the deorum ministeria, the Pharsalia adheres to tradition in the matter of oracles and contains three visitations to a seat of prophecy. Appius goes to Delphi (5. 67-236), Sextus Pompeius to the Thessalian witch Erichtho (6. 413-830), and Cato to the temple of Jupiter Hammon (9. 511-86). The obvious similarities of the situations invite comparison, but no one has as yet attempted to analyze them as a unit.' Such a study, however, will be fruitful because the three episodes have more in common than first …

F.M. Ahl, Lucan: An Introduction, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Frederick M. Ahl, well known to the scholar of Lucan through his recent articles on the Pharsalia, here undertakes to introduce the poet to a wider audience. He directs his work "to the Latinless reader as well as to the classicist." Both should welcome the effort, since even for the Latinist, Lucan's reputation has steadily declined from the time when Dante ranked him among the four great poets of antiquity. A book of an introductory nature has been long overdue, especially in the English speaking world where the last major study was Mark Morford's very fine The Poet Lucan.

Horatius Callidus, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

When Horace turned from Sermones and Epodes to the composition of lyrics, the task that he set himself was a complex one. Like Virgil, Horace accepted wholeheartedly the poetic ideals of careful craftsmanship and sophistication advocated by Callimachus and the Alexandrians and first represented in Rome by Catullus, Calvus and Cinna. Nevertheless, the Alexandrian and neoteric programs were not enough for Horace and Virgil: both were deeply affected by the times in which they lived and were therefore determined to deal with contemporary affairs in their poetry. This determination eventually led Virgil to the "impossible" task of adapting the classical …

A Bibliographical Guide To Teaching The Homeric Epics In College Courses, Kostas Myrsiades

English Faculty Publications

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A Criticism Of Elder Olson's Poetic Method, Ernest Edward Force Ii

Masters Theses

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"Kubla Khan" And Its Critics, Allen Dale Widerburg

Dissertations and Theses

This paper evaluates the critical response to Samuel Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." In the Introduction I outline my critical approach, which attempts to see the relationships between parts of the poem, sources outside the poem and poet himself. In analyzing Coleridge's esthetics, I have come to the conclusion that the poem was the first of a new type of Romantic poem. The central structural principle of this type of poem is the use of illusion and the fragmented form, or the illusion of the fragmented form. Poems that fall within this esthetic frequently use the "vision within a dream" motif as …

All The World's A Stage And All The Men And Women Merely Rhetoricians, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Manuscript submitted by Edna Saffy to Dr. Carpenter, June 1, 1974, the paper includes a gold seal and notes in red. This paper will examine the similarities that exist between the POETICS and the RHETORIC, especially in the areas of (1) the evocation of pity and fear, (2) artistic and inartistic proofs, (3) metaphor and strange usage, (4) division, (5) past, present, future, and the probable and, (6) length in an effort to show that the dramatic overtones which pervade both these works (i.e., the RHETORIC and the POETICS) have as their common basis the drama of the period.

A Study Of The Connotations And Meanings Of The Greek Word [Philos] And Its Cognates In The Works Of Homer, Hesiod And Selected Lyric Poets, Brian W. Hattery '73

Fenwick Scholar Program

This project is the study of the wide range of meaning for Greek word [philos]. It also traces the development of the meaning of the word in literature from the eighth century B.C. to the end of the sixth century B.C.

Sophocles In The Age Of Goethe: An Analysis Of Sophoclean Influence In The Klassik-Romantik Era, Edward J. Vodoklys '72

Fenwick Scholar Program

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of Sophocles, the man, and the entire corpus of his plays within the developing trends of 18th and 19th century German literature.

Two Papyrus Fragments Of The Odyssey, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The two papyri edited below are housed in the Rare Books Department of the Bancroft Library on the University of California's Berkeley campus. Of Roman date, they were summarily described on page 303 of The Tebtunis Papyri Vol. II and have listings in Roger A. Pack's Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt. The collations which follow are based upon P. von der Muihll's edition (Basel 1946). For fragment no. 1, pertinent excerpts from the apparatus criticus of that edition are reproduced.

Marshall University Theatre Presents The Taming Of The Shrew, Clayton R. Page

All Performances

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The Altercatio Phyllidis Et Florae As An Ovidian Satire, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The Altercatio Phyllidis et Florae is an Ovidian satire: a poem which ridicules certain mistaken notions of the meaning of the office of clerk by putting them in a context in which they become justifications for love. Such satire is possible in any age which, like Augustan Rome or twelfth-century France, defines a person according to his office and thereby can see the absurdity of making these definitions into reasons for praising a person's aptness for love. If Ovid is the inventor of this form of satire, he was followed, as we can see from the Altercatio, by poets …

Demosthenes And The Theoric, Robert A. Wild

Master's Theses

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The Renaissance Epyllion: A Study Of A Comic Genre, Juanita Josephine Whitaker

English Theses & Dissertations

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The Stem-Vowel Quantity Of The Nouns, Adjectives And Verbs Used By Virgil And Horace, Emmett Bienvenu

Master's Theses

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A Study Of Virgil's Sympathy For Human Suffering In The Aeneid, J. Paul O'Brien

Master's Theses

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Sallust's Catiline: History Or Political Pamphlet?, Robert Henry Schmidt

Master's Theses

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The Meaning Of Physis In Aeschylus, Sophocles, And Euripides, Edward R. Sunshine

Master's Theses

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The Value Of The Classics In Today's World, Helen Ruth Hoffman

Graduate Student Research Papers

This study attempted to (1) call attention to some of the great classical writers, (2) show a relationship between their beliefs, problems, and accomplishments and those of man today, and (3) compare and contrast modern and classical philosophies.

Reactions To Edgar Allan Poe At Home And Abroad, Hannah Davis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

One of the most enigmatic names in America literature is that of Edgar Allan Poe. Born in America of Americans, the major portion of his works were written in his native country and, with the exception of an occasional phrase or two used to create effect or atmosphere, all his works were written in his native tongue. This would naturally lead one to suppose that he would be a national favorite, widely read, freely quoted, universally admired.

Thucydides' Account Of The Athenian Empire In The Light Of Contemporary Coinage , J. A. Brinkman

Master's Theses

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